Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entries for the third Winter Meeting closed earlier than the others so that the handicaps in the Fence Vault and Running High Jump could be made out by the official handicapper. The events with the men in order in which they entered are the following...
...Fence vault. - Daniels...
...winter meeting on Saturday was a departure from the old style of indoor meets and proved a most successful affair. Nobody missed the customary bouts of light-weight sparring and the presence of so many well-known athletes in the two special events - the flying rings and the pole vault - added to the meeting an interest which, unfortunately, has been wanting in most of the previous ones...
...Lakin '94 and B. J. Worman '95 ran in the first of the trial heats in the potato race. Worman came in first, with Richardson second. In the second heat, C. B. Earle was first, N. W. Bingham '95, second. The finals were run after the pole vault. The four winners of the trial heats lined up and just one minute and four seconds after the word go, Richardson dropped his last potato in the milk can, which served as the receptacle. Earle and Worman were only a fraction of a second behind him. Earle made a desperate struggle...
...last event was the pole vault, contested by O. G. Cartwright, Y. A. A., J. Crane, Jr., B. A. A., and Wheelwright '94. The bar was placed at 8 ft. and no one met any great difficulty till it was raised to 9 ft. 6 in. Here it took Wheelwright two trials and Cartwright three, to clear the bar. At 9 ft. 10 in. Wheelwright was obliged to drop out. Cartwright failed to make the next height and so took second with a jump of 9 ft. 10 in. Crane then did some beautiful vaulting, clearing...