Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football at the College of the Pacific, to officiate as head referee at the meet he inaugurated in Chicago 16 years ago. In particular, the 15,000 track fans had come expecting to see Southern California's Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows tie for an all-time record pole-vault of 15 ft. or over. In only the last instance was the audience disappointed...
Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...
Sefton and Meadows learned their art from Southern California's Coach Dean Cromwell, who declares that an expert vaulter's greatest single asset is a correct psychological outlook. Both run a 99-ft. stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute...
...quickly withered and died. After this came a sprout which The Bronx scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant was 8 ft. 5 in. tall...
...July 10 the invaders will have one of their strongest teams on hand. Featured on it are A. G. K. Brown, of Cambridge, a ranking Olympic runner up to 880 yards. Also there are E. B. Tisdale, of Oxford, an outstanding miller, F. R. Webster, a 13-foot pole vaulter, and Ali Irfan, a 49-foot shot putter...