The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-19
HOW DOLE
WON PALM
The "Arrival" of the
Worlds Greatest
VauIter.

The Deseret News of Salt Lake, with
a few errors concerning family history,
says of Norman Dole:
Norman Dole, who now secures the
long delayed title of worlds champion
pole vaulter, comes from wonderful
athletic family-many believe the most
wonderful family of which there is a
record. They are the Doles of Honolu-
Iu. of which ex-Gov. Dole of the Sand
witch Islands is the father. During the
II years since Stanford university
threw open it's doors to freshmen, there
has never been time when one of
these Dole boys and girls We're not win
ming IaureIs ON the track and football
field. The first of them, Charley"
Dole was the first man to be sent from
the west to represent the new univer-
sites in an eastern field meet. He
surprised everybody by bringing home
a dozen points, and winning recognition
/ for the west in athletics. He was fol-
lowed by other and younger members
of the family, upon whom such pictur-
esque names as Savage" "Cannibal,'
and "Guiby' Dole were bestowed by
their classmates. 1t has now come to
be a tradition that Dole must bear a,
name in college suggestive of the Pa
cific Islanders.
Two years ago the bitterest athletic
contest that ever took place on the Pa
cific coast occurred, and it discovered
Norman Dole as a pole vaulter. 1t was
a track meet, and in track events STAN
ford had never won from Berkeley in
all the six years they had held annual
meetings. On the other hand Berkeley
had seldom won at football. Howeyert
this year Stanford had received a
scorching defeat that left her humili
ated and on her mettle. AS spring drew
near she marshalled her athletes and
pressed them forward into the hardest 4
of training. She simply went in to win
at all costs, if there was any way in her
student body to do it. On the eventful
day with a field team much increased
by raw recruits, she went to her old ri
walls grounds, full of the spirit of fight.
Event after event was run off, each
developing some new surprise. I'm
known runners from Stanford develop
ed winning bursts of speed against
Berkeley veterans, and through the
whole afternoon the score climbed up,
with Stanford farther ahead than she
had ever been, but still behind Berkeley
- few points. AT the end two events
were left, the relay race and the pole |
vault. Either one of them could turn
victory to Berkeley if she won it, and
Stanford needed them both. In the re- !
lay Stanford accumulated good lead |
until the last lap, when her man. Pie
Smith of Denver, running like a deer, !
stumbled and fell, while the thousands |
of partisan spectators loosened a cry I
ir a he
colors they Wore as the Blue and Gold |
runner passed his fallen antagonist. |
But too much depended on the event |
to stop and Smith picked himself up,
and with a burst of speed that he has |
never since approached sped on till he |
crossed the tape with just enough of
a lead to win. This brought hope to
Stanford, and a tense interest in the
final event-the pole vault. If Stan
ford should win first place she could
tie the meet, or if she won second and
third place she could tie it, and if
first and second she could win the day
For a whole hour people watched as
the sun disappeared through the gold
en- gate and the darkness found five
men, three from Stanford and two from
Berkeley still going up into the air, al
though the coast intercollegiate record
had been passed several inches by all
five of them in the stress of winning
which was forcing them on. Finally
Beach of Stanford distanced the best
Berkeley man, and Dole of Stanford
shot ap for g. record of IL feet "a !
inches. within a quarter of an inch of !
the worlds record.
The crowd went wild, while Stanford,
with the glory of her first
field victory, placed Norman Dole as Z
first among the members of the family !
who had done SO much for western ath-
setics.
From that day the boy started to
practise to pass the worlds record
Last spring he trained steadily for 1t,
and in the field events broke his pole ,
just as he was warming up to record
distance. A week later a try-out was
held to choose a team for the world 5
fair meet and at this try-out he gfa-
dually worked distance till he crossed !
the bar at II feet 1.32 inches. Much
TO the surprise of all coast autho- {
rites the record was Wlthheld from !
press REPORTS The San Francisco Chro-
nicIe noted that the Associated Press
ignored it, while the wonderful Il foot :
vault of a Yale man was flashed over (
the country as new worlds mark &
Then began the hong contest for recoS-
milton with the Amateur Athletic union,
which has just ended in the giving 10
Dole of his place as foremost of the 3
worlds pole yaulters.