Word: poles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English pole vaulter, raised his American record to 11 feet 11/2 inches, and W. J. Barry broke the record for throwing the hammer in the English style. making 121 feet 7 inches, at N. Y. A. C. games on Saturday...
...success at the intercollegiate games, but it is especially gratifying to observe the number of records which have been broken by Yale men. At our spring games the intercollegiate records were broken in the mile run and throwing the hammer, and cur college records were broken in the pole-vault and in putting the shot. The intercollegiate records in the same events, leaving out the polo-vault and adding the broad jump, were again broken by Yale men at the intercollegiate games. At a special meeting of the Yale Athletic Association at the Field last Friday, the world's record...
...Pole Vault - Leavitt...
...POLE VAULT.Columbia. - H. F. Welch...
...statement in the Boston Herald of Sunday that the pole-vault is to be one of Harvard's strong points in the Mott Haven contest next Saturday is untrue since Shearman of Yale has cleared a higher distance than any athlete at Harvard...