Word: carr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traveling at the speed of a sprinter, thrusting a bamboo pole in the ground at the proper moment, Sabin W. Carr of Yale flung himself over a bar that was poised exactly 14 feet above the ground, established a new world's pole vault record. The highest previous flight, 13 feet, 11⅜ inches, was made by Charles Hoff a Norwegian...
...Carr's vault came at the end of a day of triumph of Pacific coast athletes. For the sixth time within the last seven years, a band of Californians won the track & field championship of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, held at Philadelphia. This year it was Stanford. Southern California, last year's champions, finished in fourth place, chiefly because it produced a sturdy youngster named Charles Borah, who left his nearest competitor ten yards behind in the 220-yard dash, four yards behind in the 100-yard dash...
...Abbott, T. H. Alcock, Bailey Aldrich, C. A. Allen, Eduardo Andrade, W. C. Atwater, H. C. Bartlett, Lawrence Batchelder, Dudley Bell, A. C. Bemis, G. A. Blowers, R. D. Bolster, S. E. Bowditch, L. S. Brayton, G. C. Bruen, B. G. Burbank, A. F. Callahan, J. F. Carr, C. M. Clark, E. L. Cox, Gardener Cox, George Crawford, J. P. Crosby, R. McD. Cunningham, Langdon Dearborn, D. P. Donaldson, R. T. Dunn, George Eaton, T. H. Eliot, A. V. Ellis, Herbert Farnsworth, R. G. Fiske, LeB. R. Foster, H. C. Fox. D. A. Garrison, W. B. Gentleman, Walter Gierasch...
...Haven, Conn., May 31--Sabin W. Carr was elected captain of the Yale track team for next year at a meeting of the lettermen today. The new Eli leader has been a consistently excellent performer in his specialty, the pole vault, and last Saturday outdid his previous best efforts to set a new world's record of 14 feet for the vault. Carr will be a Senior next year...
Carrying one cold chicken, two gallons of tea and four tons of gasoline in a 700-horsepower Hawker-Horsley biplane, Lieutenants C. A. Carr and Lem M. S. Gillman hopped last week from Cranwell, England, bound for Karachi, India, 4,000 miles away. They missed the airdrome wall at the start by a few inches. Over Constantinople they were reported to be doing well. On leaving the Persian Gulf engine trouble developed. They were forced to descend into lukewarm waters, wrecking their Hawker-Horsley some 3,200 miles from home. Soon a ship rescued them, took them to Abadan, Persia...