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Thus the Princeton meet may be close, or even worse. The Tigers boast a 15-ft. pole vaulter in Charlie Mitchell, a 6 ft., 8 in. high jumper in John Hartnett, a 49.0 quarter miler in Lew Hitzrot, and a host of fine sprinters and distance...
Princeton, featuring 6 ft., 6 in. high jumper John Hartnett, 14 ft. pole vaulter Charlie Mitchell, 6.3 sprinter Hugh Macmillan, 1:12 600 man Lew Hitzrot, 2:13 1000 runners Pete Hoey and Whit Azoy, 4:18 miler Ted Johnson, and 9:18 two-miler Rod Zwirner, should be good for 36 points or thereabouts...
...climb up the Red rungs of success had been remarkably fast. Although he did not join the party until 1945, nine years later he was Deputy Premier, chief of the secret police and a member of the Politburo. Barak also has an unusual nonpolitical record-as a championship pole vaulter, theater buff, especially of avant-garde plays, and fan of "forbidden" jazz records that his two teen-age sons often brought back from France and Italy...
Lively Zip Gun. Pole Vaulter Uelses, 24, was a virtual unknown-he had never cleared 15 ft.-when he showed up for last year's big winter meets. This year he is being courted by colleges (he gets out of the Marines next month), pursued by promoters, haunted by autograph hounds. His fan mail"runs to 300 letters a week. When he holds a press conference, his commanding general personally issues the invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses...
Fact is that tastes in vaulting poles are as changeable as Paris fashions: rules permit them to be made of anything at all, and, at one time or another, vaulters have experimented with ash, hickory, bamboo. steel and aluminum as well as fiber glass. Bob Mathias used a fiber-glass pole to win the Olympic decathlon back in 1952; Greek Pole Vaulter George Roubanis used one when he took a bronze medal at Melbourne in 1956. But the fiber-glass pole is no guarantee of success: all but a handful of the U.S.'s top 20 vaulters...