Word: vaulter
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Then Ford unaccountably doubles back on the trail. The marshal, it develops, is no altar vaulter; he is four-fifths of a bastard, going on five. Comanches have taken dozens of white captives, and the commandant wants Stewart to get them back. The request is straight out of the last thousand horse movies, but Stewart's answer is new: hell no. The commandant shudders; he has done westerns before, and this is not the way the scene is supposed to go. But he asks, disbelievingly, would money change Stewart's mind? "Yah." says Stewart, interested for the first...
...could break open the meet is the Crimson's Tom Blodgett. Although Bulldogs Bill Flippin and Jay Luck are favored in the high and low hurdles, Blodgett could win both races. He could take the broad jump as easily as not, and his spell over Eli pole vaulter Oakley Andrews might start working again...
...pole vault and javelin throw somewhat less strong. Both depend upon Blodgett. Blodgett is the pole vaulter on the team by two feet; last year he 13 ft., 9 in., and hopefully will pass 14 ft. this season. In javelin throw, he and Tom the best Crimson men, and or both may throw 200 feet coming events...
Died. Alfred Carlton Gilbert, 76, toy inventor and manufacturer who convinced millions of parents that a boy's best friend is his Erector set and who himself lived a real life of fun and games as Olympic pole vaulter and big-game hunter; of a heart attack; in Boston (see BUSINESS...
...winner's stand. High Jumper John Thomas, 19, lectures himself before each attempt ("Now, John, don't duck your head into the bar"), takes his own advice so well that no one thinks his best jump of 7 ft. 3¼ in. is his peak. Pole Vaulter Don ("Tarzan") Bragg, 25, has hauled his fullback's body (6 ft. 3 in., 197 lbs.) up 15 ft. 9¼ in. Broad Jumper Ralph Boston, 21, holds the unofficial world record of 26 ft. 11½ in., will likely get his strongest competition from Germany's Dr. Manfred...