Word: pole-vault
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...Pole-vault--Carr and Sturdy...
...with the standards previously in use, considerable difficulty was experienced on this score. In the case of the high-jump, it is possible to hold the bar on the standards until just before the jumper makes his try, but any such arrangement, Farrell felt, would be impossible in the pole-vault...
...pole-vault was won by W. H. Cleaver '29, with 11 feet 3 inches. L. O. Combs '26 and Bolding Burbank '28 each made vaults of 11 feet, placing second, while R. R. Imping '28 placed third by clearing 10 feet 9 inches. Both Burbank and Combs were at scratch, however, while Cleaver was aided by a 15 inch handicap...
...jump is conceded to Norton of Yale, intercollegiate champion. Comins and Deacon are likely to shut out Harvard's men in this event. The latter should win the high jump, being capable of jumping over six feet. Durfee of Yale must do his best to beat Combs in the pole-vault. Competition in the discus should be close; both Laimbeer and Graf are doing around 125 feet in practice...
...Captain H. T. Dunker '25 also spoke a few words, stressing the point that this was "a year of big opportunity," and that "Harvard athletics had slipped a little during the past year or two." Coach R. W. Harwood '20 made a special appeal for more candidates in the pole-vault, an event in which the University was woefully weak last year...