Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High jump--Tie for first between Harrigan (H) and Bulleit (RIS); tie for third among Benesh (RIS), Sherman (RIS) and Best (H). Height...
...This jump in training gives the Tigers the edge in all of today's encounters, but Bolles-coached crews can never be called the underdog. The Crimson was on the river earlier this season than at any time in the last decade, which is no handicap at this stage of the season...
Rounding out Harvard's six firsts in the field events were wins in the javelin by Charlie Keith, the pole vault by Bill Lawrence, and the high jump by Gene Harrington...
...began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library. She was not to quake or shake for long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection of treasures into one of the finest anywhere...
...world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race won at the canal turn; then he developed a painful crick in his neck, from an old injury, and lost his touch on the reins...