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Cornelius Warmerdam, the first man to pole vault 15 feet, will come here for two days in late October to coach pole vaulters and high jumpers...
...spring to spare. In a dual meet with Stanford, the Occidental College senior had the bar set at 15 ft. 9 in., cleared it by almost 4 in. Later measurement showed that the bar had sagged to 15 ft. 8¼in., still one-half inch above Cornelius Warmerdam's 15-year-old world outdoor record. Warmer-dam, for one, had seen the new heights coming. Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia...
...Gehrmann, the season's fastest indoor mile (4:08.4), ahead-as usual-of FBI Man Fred Wilt; in Milwaukee. Earlier, the Rev. Bob Richards pole-vaulted 15 ft. 4 5/8 in., his second-best ever, then missed three tries at beating Cornelius Warmerdam's record of 15 ft. 8½ in. The next night in Boston, Gehrmann (4:08.9) and Richards (15 ft. 2 7/8 in.) did it again...
...power, at least, he has soared closer to heaven (15 ft. 4¾ in.) than any other divine in history. He now hopes to clear a crossbar set at 16 ft., which is 4¼ in. higher than the world record mark made in 1942 by fabulous Cornelius Warmerdam, the only 15-ft. vaulter on the books until Richards made it a year ago. Bob is also as strictly amateur as an athlete can be. With rock-ribbed integrity, he turns down all offers of "help" from meet promoters...
...Chicago, Don Gehrmann, the Banker's Mile in 4:09.7, over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The show-stopper in the Chicago Daily News relays: the Rev. Bob Richards' pole-vault of 15 ft. 4¾ in., his highest yet, but still three inches short of Cornelius Warmerdam's world record. ¶ At Kansas City, Hamline University, the small college National Intercollegiate (N.A.I.B.) basketball championship, from James Millikin University, 69-61. ¶ At Paris, Canada over Sweden, 5-1, for the world amateur ice hockey title...