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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three pole vaulters who are expected to force the bar above the present world record are entered in the fifty-second annual I. C. 4 A. Track and Field Championships in the Stadium this weekend. Lee Barnes of the University, of Southern California holds the record at 14 feet one and one-half inches. Sabin Carr, Yale captain, is close behind this mark with his former world record of 14 feet. Ward Edmonds of Stanford University took third in the Interscholastics last year when he was a sophomore, and has since developed into a strong potential rival for first honors...
With these men competing the pole vault promises to be the outstanding event of the meet. Although Barnes and Carr have both done 14 feet or better, and Edmonds has reached 13 feet six inches, none of the men has shown signs of reaching his limit. When Barnes set his present record on April 28, in a West coast meet, he cleared the bar with six inches to spare, as shown by slow motion pictures of the leap. Curr's form is not yet perfected, and for this reason his present performance is not regarded as final...
...German people have always been fond of chasing will of the wisps, but with great care to been both feet out of the marsh. Disarmed Germany has everything to gain from world peace and world disarmament, commercial Germany has everything to gain by reacquiring the world's friendship. The way was long from the tales of grue some that made the from pages of 1918 hideous is the acclaim that the Bremen's heroine crew has won in 1928. Whatever Germany's time in doffing her cuirass and carrying a dove on her wrist, she has succeeded beyond cavil...
...Paris, Maria Jeritza arrived after leaving Copenhagen, looking so healthy and beautiful with her five-feet-eleven, her 160 pounds of bone and muscle, that excited friends gathered to inquire how she preserved her excellent physical condition. With a gay laugh, the large diva took the ladies of her acquaintance into her hotel bedroom and proceeded to show them. She rolled about on the floor, flinging her long legs in the air. She turned many somersaults, laughing heartily. "There," she said at last, panting and flushed, "that is what I do. That keeps me thin and agile...
Jurado's gallery was thinning away. The people were more interested in Sarazen who still had a chance to tie Hagen. They were talking about Hagen's morning round -how he had topped his brassie at the seventh but hit his mashie two feet from the pin, how he had holed a four at Maiden, gone out in 33, home...