Word: pole-vaulter
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Pete Harwood, New England A.A.U. pole-vault title holder, entered the V-12 and Eliot House from Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. His father, a 1920 Harvard man and U.S. Olympic pole-vaulter, started Pete vaulting with an old birch pole in the fifth grade at Concord, Mass. By the time Harwood had reached the eighth grade, he was clearing 8 ft., 6 in., although at the time his real ambition was baseball. It wasn't until his junior year at Exeter that Harwood discarded everything else and concentrated on the pole-vault, finishing the season with a jump...
Oscar Sutermeister '32, Harvard's intercollegiate pole-vault champion, will be unable to defend his title at the I. C. 4A games at Philadelphia next Friday and Saturday. Examination yesterday revealed that the pulled tendon suffered by the vaulter in his first broad jump in the Yale meet will keep him out of action for several weeks; he expects, however, to be able to compete against Oxford and Cambridge in London on July...
Captain Gardner of the Elis is conceded the pole-vault. He has done better than either Davis, the premier University vaulter, or Gratwick, whose work has been improving very fast lately, have ever done, but Davis, unless bothered by his old injury, which kept him out of the meet against the Engineers, will surely win second place, while Gratwick, who has done 11 feet 6 inches, looks like the logical choice for third place over Hulman, whose mark against Princeton was only 11 feet...
...pole-vault and shot-put are both more promising from the Crimson point of view than the jumps. Coach Farrell hopes to have Davis, his premier vaulter, in good condition and if this is the case the University should clinch five points. The consensus of opinion would give second place to Sheldon of M. I. T., but Gratwick has shown great improvement this year, winning the event in the triangular meet with a vault of 11 feet 6 inches. Reidy, moreover, has cleared 11 feet and may possibly give Sheldon or Gratwick a hard struggle. In the shot...
...received and show that the Elis are presenting a very formidable combination. Much interest centers around the mile-run and the pole-vault, for these two events promise to the exceptionally close. Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 will have to face T. J. O'Brien, F. W. Hilles, H. Reed, E. G. Driscoll and W. S. Kelley, who are among Yale's strongest entrants in the mile, while R. W. Harwood '20, the University's star pole-vaulter, will compete against T. P. Gardner and W. W. Webbes, with whom he tied for second place in the Penn Relay...