Word: jumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Mariles led off with the advantage of years of experience over the tight jumping courses at Madison Square Garden; but Mariles no longer had his fabled Arete, the one-eyed jumper who carried him to Olympic and international laurels. Arete had broken a leg and died after an operation. D'Oriola, accustomed to the longer European jumping courses and hardly at home in the Garden, nonetheless was superbly mounted on his big chestnut Olympic horse, Ali Baba. Steinkraus was teamed up with an amazingly old (19) brown gelding named Democrat, a retired cavalry horse from the old Army...
...feet. In the pole vault, an event the U.S. has lost only once, the Americans this year have two 15-footers, Rev. Bob Richards and Don Laz, who are expected to finish one-two, with the U.S.'s George Mattos in third place. The best U.S. high jumper, Walt Davis, is in a stratosphere (6 ft. 10½ in.) by himself...
...jump). At 21, already a veteran of eight decathlon meets, four times national champion and the world recordholder, handsome Bob Mathias meets to a remarkable degree the physical specification for this Olympic challenge. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper, and husky enough (200 Ibs.) for the heavy-duty weight events. He has the steel-spring legs of a sprinter, the back muscles of a pole vaulter and the barrel chest of a distance man. He also has the nerveless self-control to make the most of his natural advantages...
...High Jumper Walt Davis, a stringy (6 ft. 8½ in., 210 lbs.) Texas A. & M. basketball player, who barely ticked the bar off at 6 ft. 11 in., the world record. Grumbled Davis: "I can do better...
Salvador Paz Guerra, forger and prison-jumper, who had smilingly lighted a cigarette when a judge gave him 20 years, had to be dragged from his cell. Jose Colombres, a six-foot, pock-marked murderer, knelt tearfully and begged to stay. When a convicted murderess' name was called, she split the air with a scream, "Virgin of Guadalupe, have mercy...