Word: pole-vault
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Married. Sabin W. Carr, onetime world pole-vault record holder (14 ft.), winner of that event in the 1928 Olympic Games; and Laura de Rham, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
...Keith Brown of Yale, in the last event on the program, set a new world's pole-vault record-14 ft. 5⅛ in. (Old record: 14 ft. 4⅜ in., made by Southern California's Bill Graber...
...Brayton, Arthur J. Clement, Jr., Robert E. Rogers, Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; hammer: Stephen H. Brennan, Jr., Charles D. Ruch; high-jump: George D. W. Berry, Winslow L. Pettingell, Theodore Plotkin, William W. Shirk; hurdles: Robert Fawcett, Douglas B. Kitchel, Carroll R. Laymen, Theodore P. Robie, John P. Sparrow; pole-vault: Winslow L. Pettingell; quarter-mile: Herbert L. Furse; shotput: Robert C. Downes, William S. Glendenning, Bertram M. Litman; sprints: David P. Coffin, Charles H. Cretzmeyer, Glen O. Hay, Edgar W. Hirshberg, Francis X. Leary, Robert D. Lyons, Robert C. Stuart...
Dubiel, Woodberry, Schumann, and Cook in the pole-vault form an almost unbeatable quartet. Only the Eli captain, Keith Brown, can top the best efforts of the four Crimson stratosphere artists, and in competition against Yale, Harvard is assured of second and third places. In all other dual and triangular meets, Harvard should take first, second, and possibly third...
...points to Harvard's 16½. Henry Dreyer of Rhode Island State beat all indoor and outdoor records by throwing a 35-lb. weight 56 ft. 9 in. Keith Brown of Yale won the high-jump championship at 6 ft. 4 in., moved over to the pole-vault runway and beat his own intercollegiate record by sailing over the crossbar...