Word: pole-vault
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...make another set of jumping pits and run-ways on Soldiers Field. They will be placed inside the Stadium track at the opposite end of the oval from the old pits, and have already been started. They include pits and run-ways for the high-jump, broad-jump and pole-vault, and a circle for the shot...
...more handicap events have been added to the program, the pole-vault and the hammer-throw. The pole-vault will come at 12 o'clock in the Gymnasium because it is necessary that the whole floor be given up to it. The hammer-throw will come at 3.30 o'clock on Holmes Field with the other outdoor events...
...following events: 20-yard dash, handicap; rope climb, threelegged race, 16-pound shot-put, handicap; running high-jump, handicap; potatorace, wheelbarrow race, sack race, poleclimb, interclass tug of war, 45-yard high hurdle race, open to men who have never hurdled; 45-yard high hurdle race, handicap; pole-vault, handicap; and a 2-mile cross-country race, handicap. The hurdle races, cross-country race, and dormitory relay races will be run out of doors; the two former events will be run on the board track at Holmes Field...
...enter these events do not reach their limit in a month or two; it requires years of practice. This includes outdoor work in the fall and spring, and winter work in the Gymnasium. In order to excel in the jumps, pole-vault, shot, and hammer, a man should do light work during the whole College term, so that when he comes out in the spring, he will not have to start all over again but will feel perfectly at home in his event. The advantage in working at the present time is that it gives the coach an opportunity...
...five Harvard men who were taken to New York to compete in the Columbia handicap track meet, held in Madison Square Garden Saturday evening, two won places. S. C. Lawrence '10, with a handicap of 12 inches, was second in the pole-vault with an actual vault of 10 feet 3 inches, and E. L. Parker '10, handicap 12 inches, was third, with an actual vault of 10 feet. The following, men represented the University at the meet: J. L. Barr '10, A. D. Barker '11, S. C. Lawrence '10, E. L. Parker '10, R. G. Harwood...