Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Graber of Southern California, whose pole-vaulting won the intercollegiate championship for his team in 1931, was unexpectedly tied by Matthew Gordy of Louisiana State, at 14 ft. The tie gave Louisiana State the points it needed to win the meet, with a seven-man squad, in the most surprising upset of the season, 58 points to Southern California's 54. Competing in the 29th Annual Interscholastic championships at Soldier Field the same day, Jesse Owens, Negro star of Cleveland's East Technical High school, tied the world's record in the 100-yd. dash; broke...
...Angeles, Irwin Meyer took three girls for a ride in his automobile. Resentful because they resisted his advances, he drove the car petulantly into a telephone pole, injured all three. When the girls sued, ill-humored Irwin Meyer contended they should have known better than to ride with an ill-humored driver...
...favored Harvard-Yale group in the biennial British-American track classic. Of especial interest to Harvard men will be the return of Oscar Sutermeister '32, now studying at Cambridge, and of N. P. Hallowell "32, wearing the Dark Blue of Oxford, to compete against their fellow countrymen in the pole vault and half mile respectively. Byles of Princeton and Stanwood of Bowdoin are also on the British team. Stanwood made history for Oxford last March by winning three firsts against Cambridge in the high jump, and in both the high and low hurdles. The Oxford "iron man" will have stiff...
...half mile, Lovelock in the mile and Mabey in the two mile, the invaders should find first places hard to capture. E. E. Calvin '33, and Walsh and Lane of Yale ought to take the sprints over Cantab and Davis. Keith Brown is due to win the pole vault and high jump and the crack Kari Warner the quarter. J. H. Dean '34, who created a new Harvard record by putting the shot 48 feet in the I.C.4A. meet this year, is a certainty in the shot put while N. P. Dodge '33, A. B. Hallowell '34 and Arthur Foote...
...larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others. Our "stove pipe" is a steel drum at least 24 in. in diameter. We frequently use an inflator. Also we seldom use poles any more. We use a gin pole in the inside till the bag is selfsupporting. We have put on a great many ascensions, playing large fairs and expositions. We played the Tennessee State Fair at Nashville three years ago. Have played in most States east of the Mississippi. Also some in the West...