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...happens, is Olson, a droll and drawling Abilene Texan, who at the snap of a fiberglass tube this month hoisted himself 19 ft. ¼ in., becoming the first man to vault 19 ft. indoors. "I'm going to go higher," he promises, "I think a good bit higher, though I'm not saying how high. I don't want to do it some day and get happy with it. I want to go higher and higher." Just how high a man can go, like how fast and how far, has always been the peculiar fascination of athletics...
What he was getting himself into was multi-event competition. His next move was to prep for the decathlon, the 10-event contest that consists of the 100-meter sprint, the long jump, the high jump, the 400 meter race, the 100-meter high hurdles, the discus, the pole vault, the javelin and the 1500-meter...
Rittenburg's major obstacle was the pole vault, so the summer between his sophomore and junior years, he went about remedying that situation. He headed to Edmonton, Alberta to live with his Harvard roommate Dave Grace and join the Edmonton Olympic Track and Field club. There he competed all through the summer and worked on his pole vaulting...
...Dawson (NU): 3 Baldman (BU): 4 Bartisint (NU): 5. White (NU) High jump--1 Saunders (BU) 7-6 1/4: 2. Johnson (H). 3. Udo (H): 4. Munoz-Bennet (BC) 49-6 1/2: 2. Udo (H). 3. Adu (BU). 4. Halt (H). 5. Saunders (BU). Pole vault--1 Heyburn (NU) 16-0: 2. Buntic (H). 3. Hutchinson (NU). 4. Yates (NU: 5. Poullain (Tuftss...
...Pole Vault--1 Heyburn, N. U., 15 6 2 Hutchinson, N. U. 15.3 Yales...