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...sophomore in Yale University. Competing at Yale in intramural track and field games, he took a long pole in his hand and measured off his distance from a white crossbar. For a moment he stood quite still, as if absorbed in reverie; then his feet twinkled on the runway, the end of his pole prodded the ground. His tense body shot up and up, at first vertical, then changing in the air, with the leisured slowness of immense physical effort, to a horizontal position/SUP...
...Topsfield Fair in Boston a fortnight ago, two sleek, kindly horses-a white and a chestnut- followed a young woman up a runway to a diving platform. Below, an announcer was explaining how these Percherons had never been shod with iron to pull men's burdens, but as foals followed their dams over water-drops that grew as they acquired boldness, how lumps of sugar had substituted for whips in their training. On the runway, 60 feet up, the horses whinnied softly, and pushed their noses at electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched...
...Members of crew called from gondola pit and sent into runway to aid in keep ship on even keel . . . Lightning increasing in intensity. Hope to ride out storm soon. . . Pleasant City seen in distance. . . wind increasing in volume, get chance to?...
...Pennsylvania, having won the pole vault with a jump of 13 ft., set out to better the intercollegiate record of 13 ft. 1 in. set by Robert A. Gardner* in 1912.† He asked to have the bar put at 13-2, measured his takeoff, dashed down the runway, shot high in air, fell over into the pit. Ted Meredith stood up shouting. A record had fallen. But, as the crowd roared-as Sherrill, resting in the soft turf, looked up at the space over which he had leaped, the bar toppled, fell over...
...yesterday and will probably be put to its first test tomorrow. The affair consists of two framed alleys approximately 60 feet in length and eight feet wide covered with net on the sides and back. A pitcher's box is such a way that a ball coming from one runway cannot possibly strike the man who is pitching into the other By this device Coach Mahan hopes greatly to facilitate battery practice which has hitherto been carried on solely with the old type of backstop...