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...California's Cornelius Warmerdam: the pole vault at the sixth annual Compton Track Meet; clearing the bar at 15 ft., 5½ in. for a new world's high; at Compton, Calif. It was the fourth time within a year that he had broken the world's record, but none of his marks will be accepted as official until the war-disbanded International
...seven-foot high jump, a 15-foot pole vault were considered as unlikely as a cow jumping over the moon. Year after year U. S. athletes, a dedicated, concentrated and highly competitive lot, have approached nearer & nearer these impossible figures. Last week, at Berkeley, Calif., Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam of the San Francisco Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than the world's record...
William J. Dingham '16, Director of Athletics, earned his share of reflected glory when he mounted a step-ladder with a tape measure to confirm the record-breaking leap of 14 feet 6 and one-eighth inches made by Cornelius Warmerdam; the crowd roared its approval...