Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dray prepared for college at the Harvard School, Chicago, where he was on the track team for three years. In his freshman year, as during the past season, he won the pole vault in the dual meets with Harvard and Princeton and also in the intercollegiate games...
Owing to a broken tendon he was prevented from entering any of the meets last year. In the dual meet with the University this spring he broke the world's record pole-vault, after he had won the event, by clearing 12 feet, 5 1-2 inches...
...POLE-VAULT...
...high hurdles, Mason in the low hurdles, Stephenson in the shot-put, Kersburg in the hammer-throw, and Somers and Harwood in the high jump. The failure of both Grant of Harvard and Jackson of Cornell, who together hold the intercollegiate record, to qualify in the pole-vault was one of the most unexpected events of the day. Garrels of Michigan was easily the individual star of the day, as he qualified in three events and should be a strong factor in all of these today...
...results of the pole-vault trials were a great surprise. Dray and Gilbert of Yale went over 11 ft., 6 in., as did Swain of Pennsylvania and Allen of Syracuse. Campbell cleared 11 ft., 5 in., and qualified. This afternoon the event will start with...