Word: vault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pole Vault: Smith, Bellaire...
...unsung youth from Missouri State Teachers' College. As everyone knows, it took pliable muscles and potent lungs even to finish this decathlon - com posed of a 100-metre dash, running broad jump, 16-lb. shot-put, running high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500 metre...
...Polo Vault--Robert Haydock...
...intense. Mikkola showed an adaptability in all athletic games which soon placed him in a prominent position in his club, and his activity in this respect and in other fields made him well-wnown throughout the whole of Finland. He became celebrated as a marksman, won the pole vault and steeple chase in the athletic games held in Petrograd as a captain in the army won several medals for bravery and distinguished service and for two years was long distance ski-champion of Finland...
...standards previously in use, considerable difficulty was experienced on this score. In the case of the high-jump, it is possible to hold the bar on the standards until just before the jumper makes his try, but any such arrangement, Farrell felt, would be impossible in the pole-vault...