Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native Lokken Verk, where every other 12-year-old can jump 150 ft., Torger...
Tokle was just another ski rider. But in the U. S. he was a sensation. Here was a greenhorn who could jump 157 ft. on sea legs. He lacked the elegant style of Olympic Champion Birger Ruud and Norwegian Champion Reidar Andersen, two of his countrymen who had broken the trail ahead of him. But Torger Tokle had something. Experts say it is the oomph in his satz, that split-second transition from running to jumping at the takeoff. From knees like coiled springs he gets a tremendous lift-soaring out, out, out, like a baseball hit smack...
...last week, Torger Tokle had become America's favorite snow bird. Ten days ago, in a meet at Leavenworth, Wash., he soared 273 ft., longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill...
...best friends as Fats Waller), Artie Shapiro (bass), Eddie Condon (guitar), and George Wettling (drums). Solos don't measure up to the standards set on the Teagarden date, but the musicians have a wonderful talent for getting together on the finish and really making the last couple of choruses jump. Best side is Oh Sister Ain't That...
Tomorrow's meet will feature Donahue in the high hurdles, miler Fred Phinney, and John Bunker in the high jump. Dick Pfister will put the shot, and Doug Pirnie and Roger Schafer are to run in the 60 and 300 yard dashes. Mitchell Ford and Bob Partlow in the pole vault and broad jump have also shown well in early meets and should probably add much to the Crimson team...