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...Sabin Carr, brilliant Yale pole-vaulter, broke his newly-established record of the B.A.A. meet, by clearing the bar at thirteen feet nine and one quarter inches. Vaulting with perfect form and ease, Carr cleared each height and left his previous world record below him in a wonderful exhibition...
Pole Vault. Last week in Boston a young man paced away from a horizontal stick, set 13 ft. 7⅛ in. from the floor. Turning he rushed, planted a spiked pole, and released all available springs. Sabin Carr of Yale had set a new mark for indoor pole-vaulters to shoot at. He had come within ⅞ in. of Charles Hoff's supreme effort-which did not count because Mr. Hoff is a professional. Bluebird. In a Bluebird on the Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Capt. Malcolm Campbell broke the world's automobile record for a kilometre...
...York, N. Y., February 4 Charles H. Sabin, president of The Boy's Club of New York, yesterday announced a gift of $6,000 from members of the Harvard Club of New York for the furnishing of one of the rooms in the new branch of The Boys Club now in process of construction at 321 East 111th Street. The room has been given in memory of the late Evert Jansen Wendell of the class of 1882 at Harvard University who was a prominent track athlete and who spent most of his life in work among boys. The late...
...Sabin is chairman of the building fund committee which includes E. Roland Harriman, Charles Hayden, Philip Le Boutillier and Frederick Strauss. Officers of The Boys Club of New York are: Charles H. Sabin president; William W. Skiddy, W. Averell Harriman and Allan McCulloh, vice presidents; Henry Stanford Brooke, secretary, and Richard A. Strong treasurer...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...