Word: vaulters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other points were dropped in the weight throw when Cahners could get only a fifth, and Dubiel could only the for first in the pole vault with Harding, the Yale vaulter who best him in the Quadrangular...
Since the B. A. A. meet also falls on Saturday, Captain Milt Green, Bob Hall, and Al Barcewicz will not be entered in the handicap meet. Emile Dubiel, star pole vaulter, is out with a bad ankle...
...Times were of Baseballer Jimmy Foxx striking out. Northmore snapped a series of Golfer Al Watrous getting out of a sand trap, the prints plainly showing the clubhead traveling ahead of the ball after the impact. Last fortnight at University of Detroit Stadium his "Magic Eye" followed Pole-Vaulter Walter Simmons over the bar (see cut). Last week the Times played up his shots of Socialite Mary Mitchell playing tennis, lions brawling in the Detroit...
...throwing, six meet records had been broken, the University of California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race against Glen Dawson of Tulsa. At Santa Barbara, competing in the invitation Track & Field Championships, Pole-Vaulter Bill Graber, onetime star at the University of Southern California, broke his own world's record (14 ft. 4⅛ in.) with a vault...
...vaulting pole. At Yale, in 1907, he discovered the fact that bamboo poles had more spring, less chance of breaking off in a point than spruce. He became the first man to clear the alarming height of 13 ft. (unofficially). When he returned from the Olympic Games in London, Vaulter Gilbert brought back 50 bamboo poles which cost $1.25 each and sold them for $25 each. After this venture he went into the magic business, manufacturing sets of card tricks, false hats for jugglers and accessories for vaudeville magicians. Presently A. C. Gilbert thought up the idea of a child...