Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually "destroyed." Last week the Horse Show committee of Nebraska's famed Ak-Sar-Ben celebration brought to Omaha for a personal appearance a blind horse named Elmer Gantry, who was remarkable not simply because he was still alive but also because he had been taught to jump...
...field events, which were scored on a basis of a three man total in each event, Lowell took the broad jump and high jump, and Kirkland captured the shot...
Hume of Lowell was long man in the broad jump at 18 feet 11 1/4 inches while his team total was 53 feet 8 1/2 inches, which is some leap for a Bellboy. Kirkland was second with 52 feet 5 inches. Larry Campbell of Kirkland topped the high jumpers with a leap of 5 feet 6 inches, but his team's total of 15 feet was two inches under the Lowell aggregation's combined efforts...
Mackinney and Mason took three firsts apiece, the former winning the two hurdles and the broad jump, while Mason won the shot put with a heave of 48 ft. 5 1/2 in., and took first honors in the javelin and discus. Mackinney's high hurdle triumph was somewhat of a hollow victory, inasmuch as he was the sole entry...
High jumpers Michael Zara and John Bunker tied for first in the high jump at 5 feet 7 inches, and Paul Rodgers copped the pole vault at 9 feet 6 inches...