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...little room in Queens, New York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...
When he set a new indoor high jump record of 6 ft. 7 in. last year it became clear that George Spitz Jr., was the best jumper in the U. S. and that he would have ample time to improve. Twice this winter he has broken his own record: at the Millrose games last month, with a jump of 6 ft. 7⅜ in., which was questioned when the bar fell because a friend shook the track running up to congratulate him; and last fortnight at the Boston A. A. meet, with a jump...
...Spitz, now a lanky phlegmatic sophomore, who is studying at New York University to become a dentist, nonchalantly began to remove his overgarments at about the time his rivals began to have serious trouble clearing the bar. He took off his flannel trousers at 6:4, his sweatshirt at 6:5. On his feet he wore shoes of kangaroo skin, made to order, with pin spikes and crepe rubber soles, lighter than those of his confreres. Spectators noticed peculiarities in his style, occasioned by the fact that he learned to high jump without the supervision of an experienced coach...
There was no doubt in anyone's mind that Spitz would win the event, if not a new record. At 6:4, a height at which W. B. Page barely managed to hurl himself over an old-fashioned square bar in 1888 for the first U. S. high jump record, he cleared the bar as easily as a kitten hopping across a spool. Best of the field against him was a thin coffee-colored Negro, Howard Spencer, of Geneva College, who, even more eccentric than Spitz, wore one shoe and jumped with his right foot bare. Spencer took three...
Even more than to see Spitz perform his high jump, spectators at the National Championships last week wanted to see a mile race in which the overwhelming favorite was a German-American youth who, at the advanced age of 23, is a senior at Pottstown, Pa., High School. A year ago most experts would have selected Spitz as a sure member of the Olympic team but very few would have chosen Gene Venzke, a tenacious miler, seasoned in road races that develop stamina rather than speed, celebrated for a long smooth stride and a tendency to come in second. When...