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Those who came to see records smashed were disappointed. Yale's slim Keith Spalding Brown, who holds the world's indoor pole-vaulting record, was outsoared by Southern California's William Graber in a vault-off. Sam Allen of Oklahoma Baptist came nearest to setting a world mark. Over the 120-yd. high hurdles two reserve and one regular timer caught him at 14.1 sec., a tenth of a second better than the record. Unfortunately for Allen, the other two regular timers averaged...
...Keith Brown of Yale, in the last event on the program, set a new world's pole-vault record-14 ft. 5⅛ in. (Old record: 14 ft. 4⅜ in., made by Southern California's Bill Graber...
...meet records had been broken, the University of California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race against Glen Dawson of Tulsa. At Santa Barbara, competing in the invitation Track & Field Championships, Pole-Vaulter Bill Graber, onetime star at the University of Southern California, broke his own world's record (14 ft. 4⅛ in.) with a vault...
...Bill Graber of Southern California, whose pole-vaulting won the intercollegiate championship for his team in 1931, was unexpectedly tied by Matthew Gordy of Louisiana State, at 14 ft. The tie gave Louisiana State the points it needed to win the meet, with a seven-man squad, in the most surprising upset of the season, 58 points to Southern California's 54. Competing in the 29th Annual Interscholastic championships at Soldier Field the same day, Jesse Owens, Negro star of Cleveland's East Technical High school, tied the world's record in the 100-yd. dash; broke...
...John Lyman shot-putted a new world's record of 52 ft. 8½ in.: Stanford men placed second and fourth. Henri Laborde won the discus throw as everyone knew he would. with two more Stanford men placed for points behind him. Bill Miller of Stanford tied Bill Graber of U. S. C. and three others in the pole vault. Herbert of Stanford won the 200-metre low hurdles which made three first places to Southern California's one-Bob Lyon, in the 110-metre high hurdles. But Southern California had an army of runners...