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...Davis '23 was awarded last night the George Guest Haydock Memorial Cup for the best improvement in pole-vaulting by the Track Advisory Committee...
...awarded annually to the pole-vaulter "showing the best improvement as a result of hard work, perscverance, enthusiasm, and courageous spirit, qualities so characteristic of Haydock...
...known as the George Guest Haydock Memorial Cup for pole-vaulting, will be awarded each year to the undergraduate on either University or Freshman track squads who shows, in the opinion of the Graduate Advisory Committee, not only improvement, but also enthusiasm, hard work, perseverance, and loyalty. The cup is being given by a few of Haydock's best friends in his class, 1916, for the purpose of encouraging inexperienced pole-vaulters. It will be on exhibition in Cambridge during the latter part of this week and at the end of the season, will be presented to the winner...
...Freshman in 1913, Haydock vaulted only 9 feet 6 inches, but by constant practice he was able to attain one foot higher in his Sophomore year and cleared 11 feet 6 inches in this third year to tie for third place in the Yale meet. Finally in his Senior year, he vaulted 12 feet 6 inches in the Yale meet tieing for first place and creating a new University record which has not yet been broken. When serving as a first lieutenant in Company L of the 28th Infantry, Haydock was killed at Cantigny, France...
Lieut. George G. Haydock...