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...broad-jump and high-jump situation is sad. Stu Grover, only experienced broad-jumper, is sick, and the rest of the men are green. There is a real need for entrants here, and Jaakko is urging that any Freshmen interested, experienced or not, should report soon. In the high-jump, however, there is a bright star on the horizon, for Dean Hennessy, now playing basketball, is planning to turn to track at the end of the hoopsters' season. But Pete Garland is at present the only man there, and he is not really a high-jumper. In the hammer throw...
French, recently added to the broad-jump entrants, has been the leading jumper on the University squad this spring, but pulled a tendon in the heats of the 100-yards dash in the Harvard Yale dual meet...
Yale's greatest weakness lies in the high-jump and broad-jump. Landon, the Olympic high-jump champion, has graduated, as has Cowles, the broad-jumper. Coach Mack's best men for the latter event seem to be Feldman and Milliken, who though able to secure only third place in last year's Freshman meet, has improved considerably since then...
...superiority over Benoni Lock wood Jr. '22 and G. A., Saxton '22 is not as clear cut as over the other Crimson entries in the hammer throw. Malcolm Morse '24 is the best high jumper with A. K. Murray '23, the only other University member who can be looked upon as capable of scoring points in the meets this year. In the broad-jump as in the sprints, Percy Jenkins '24 will be among the strongest entries if it is possible for him to arrange his duties with the baseball team in such a way as to allow...
...broad-jump also, the Americans, led by Gourdin, have a distinct advantage. The latter leaped 24 feet, 4 inches at New Haven, while Krogness followed him with 22 feet, 3 1-2 inches. The best English jumper, Ingrams of Oxford, went only 22 feet, 1-2 inch...