Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year in Norway, a lithe, bespectacled U. S. youth fell into a friendly argument with a lean, puckery-faced young Norwegian. They were talking about their bodies. The U. S. disputant was Harold M. Osborne, 1924 Olympic high jump and decathlon champion, world's record-holder in both events. His contention was that he could compel his body to perform feats surpassing in dexterity and variety those of his interlocutor, Charles Hoff, world's champion pole-vaulter...
...with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched low, urged his mount to clear the first ditch and the hedge?was thrown heavily as his horse fell into the second ditch?fractured his left collar bone...
When people heard that "Oh, Dear," slim-legged courser of the Prince of Wales, had died of heart failure while making a jump (see COMMONWEALTH), they realized with vicarious contrition that a horse has a heart that may burst. "Oh, Dear" undoubtedly had a weak heart, although heart disease is fairly uncommon among horses. Their circulatory system is quite comparable to that of humans. Thus the horse has a heart with four chambers (two ventricles and two auricles) arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins and the appropriate valves. The blood is normally so pure that biological chemists use it in preparing...
...Dear" had only fainted or collapsed after the jump, attendants might yet have saved his life by following certain veterinary procedures, by rubbing him vigorously with a brush, or a "handful of straw or twigs, or coarse towels, or even some coarse-woven wearing apparel. If aromatic spirits of ammonia were handy, they should have mixed one or two tablespoonfuls in four to six ounces of water and let the cloudy mixture trickle over the horse's tongue every 20 minutes. But this is a heroic measure of last recourse...
Combs and Clark have been put down for the pole vault and will have to leap higher than Hoff, the Norwegian champion, in order to win. Another champion will be found in Osborne, World's high jump record-holder, with whom Jones will have to contend, Christiansen, the Scandinavian flash will hop the barriers against Ballantyne and Clark of the University. Hall and Boyce have been listed in the 1000-yard handicap race...