Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Marty, of Fresno State College: a new unofficial world's high-jump record of 6 ft. 9] in., almost an inch more than his old record of 6 ft. 8 3/4in., made indoors last month; in a meet with Sacramento Junior College; at Fresno, Calif...
...Fordham; 25 ft. 3¼ in. for the running broadjump, by Jesse Owens of Ohio State. More remarkable than either was a performance which, beause of the technicalities of A. A. U. rules, set no record at all. George Spitz of N. Y. U. and Walter Marty of Fresno State College tied for the high jump championship at 6 ft. 7½ in. Then the bar was set at 6 ft. 8⅞ in. for an exhibition. Marty cleared it on his fourth try. He got a gold medal but no credit for a world's record; his jump...
...meet produced two new world's records: 14 ft. 4 in. for an indoor pole vault, by Keith Brown of Yale; 6 ft. 8½ in. for the high jump, by Walter Marty of Fresno State Teachers College...
...Philadelphia, 1,500 Roman Catholic parishioners in the Italian district, resentful over transfer orders for their three popular priests, Revs. Simpliciano Gatt, Aurelio Marini and Basil Fresno, held the fathers captive in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel until police forced an entrance, surrounded the priests, got them out. When Father Gatt, assistant pastor, returned to get his clothes, parishioners recaptured him in the rectory. "We love him; we will not let him go!" they shouted. They fought the police, threw them out, locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral party, cheered when the cort...
...principals in San Francisco's first important title prizefight for 19 years, held last week, were Young Corbett (Raffaele Giordano of Fresno, Calif.) and Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein of Chicago) who won the welterweight championship three years ago, lost it to young Jack Thompson, won it back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with...