Word: pole-vault
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...five Americans who will be competing in the meet for the second time, three won points in 1949. Eli George Appel tied for pole-vault honors, while Yale's high-jumping Hipple twins shared first in their event. Crimson hurdler Charlie Durakis, however, narrowly missed winning the 120-yard high hurdles. He knocked over the last hurdle and lost, after holding a six-foot lead most of the way. Bill Geick, the other Crimson returnee, lost the 1949 broad-jump by an inch and three-quarters...
...Whitney's Mameluke and Mrs. Emil Denemark's Ruhe, split divisions of the Blue Grass Stakes, Kentucky Derby prep race; at Lexington, Ky. ¶ Illinois' Don Laz and Nebraska's Don Cooper, a tie for pole-vault honors (at 14½ ft.) in the Drake Relays, after both failed at 15 ft.; at Des Moines. ¶ Pat O'Sullivan (with a birdie on the final hole), her second North & South Amateur golf title; at Pinehurst, N.C. ¶ Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, over Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s Australian champion...
...year-old record. Against 36 Eastern colleges the Yale team swam off with eight of 14 titles. ¶ At Chicago, Don Gehrmann, the Banker's Mile in 4:09.7, over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The show-stopper in the Chicago Daily News relays: the Rev. Bob Richards' pole-vault of 15 ft. 4¾ in., his highest yet, but still three inches short of Cornelius Warmerdam's world record. ¶ At Kansas City, Hamline University, the small college National Intercollegiate (N.A.I.B.) basketball championship, from James Millikin University, 69-61. ¶ At Paris, Canada over Sweden...
...winter track season, boggles by the officials blurred the results to the point of farcical anticlimax. The two big questions: 1) Did Don Gehrmann or Fred Wilt win the Wanamaker Mile? 2) Did, or did not, the Rev. Robert Richards become the second man in history to pole-vault 15 feet...
Coach Carl Olsen can rely upon consistent winner Bob Mello for first place points in the pole-vault, high jump, and broad jump. Mello had no trouble capturing the three events from the Elis in the winter meeting, against only middle-class opposition...