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...unhealthy condition of amateur athletics in the United States grew to alarming proportions last year. It was evidenced in many ways, from the increase of international football games with their attendant professional atmosphere, to the achievements of Hoff on the vaudeville stage during a supposedly amateur athletic tour of the country. The whole thing may be experienced in the phase, sport becoming spectacle. The danger of this tendency cannot be emphasized too often...
...learned a lesson from what has happened to travelling tennis performers is evidenced by the action taken yesterday. It may be that further expressions of a returning sanity will make it unnecessary for Mr. Pyle to extend his purging process further with a travelling troupe containing Messrs. Nurmi, Paddock, Hoff, and their jlk. At any rate, evidence is accumulating that amateur athletics are being restored to a common sense boats...
...splitting watches said was 9.5 sec.?a magical tenth of a second less than 100 yards have ever officially been run. But there had been a brusque north wind at Locke's back. The record was doubtful. The other national feature of the meet: obliging Pole-vaulter Charles Hoff of Norway soared over the bar at 13 ft. 9% in.?a new U. S. record...
...such a difference in weight, the champion was not risking his title. But he freely and voluntarily entered the ring at Madison Square Garden with the 190-pounder, Johnny Risko, in consideration of a part of the $62,000 of gate receipts collected from Theodore Roosevelt, Red Grange, Charley Hoff and 11,669 others...
...Hoff. Charles Hoff, with a vaulting pole in his hand, paced down a runway in Madison Square Garden. Already he had cleared the bar at 11 ft., 11 ft. 6 in., 12 ft., 12 ft. 6 in., and it had been announced that he would try for a super-world's record of 13 ft. 6 in. He took one stride, two strides on the runway, then came a splintering crash, he lurched sideways, went sprawling into the landing pit. A board had broken under his foot. He arose, limped to a bench. A masseur got to work...