East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-06-09
AMERICA LOOKS FOR
POLE VAULT VICTORY
AGAIN AT OLYMP|CS
Yankee Athletes Have Lost But
One Championship in This
Event; Record Holder Has
13 Feet 3 Inch Leap.
BY SHERMAN q. LANDERs

tWrlttcn Tor the United Press.
America has lost but one Olympic
championship In the pole vault since
the resumption of the games at Ath-
ems in 1896. Gouder of France won
the event in 1906, the second meeting
at Athens. In addition to this mar
velous fact the worlds record for pole
vaulting has never departed from the
United States and this year we should
be more able than ever before to as
Isert our supremacy.
/ The Swedes. Norwegians and Danes
are by far the best vaulters and jump
ers abroad. C. Horleman OF Christi
ana, weden Is the only serious COM
petitor for our vaulters He made a
mark OF 12' Ii" in the fall of 1917,
and very good jump of slightly over
12' G. last year. Rasmussen OF Dem
mark succeeded In doing about IL 3"
I'm easy fashion at the Danish cham
ipionships last fall. Word has contin-
ually come from abroad that Coach
Ernie Hjertsberg of Sweden has been
concentrating upon jumpers and
vaulters since the postponenient of the
games to have been held in Berlin in
1916.
Only Six VIII Go.
The olympic committees decision
to take only six men in each event to
Antwerp will play havoc with the pole
vaulters. All pole vaulters have their
good and bad days and when fifteen
of our best vaulters, all capable of do
ing IL c. or better. lien up for the
final tryout at Harvard stadium in
July 1t will be an extremely nervous
aggregation. STYLES OF vauiting and
Nl.al
cessitate the taking of four men as
they qualify in the tryout and the 9TH
er two from performances of the pres
ent season.,
Our representatives viii come from
the various clubs and colleges. The
clubs have the best jumpers but the |
college athletes will counterbalance
this by being in better condition after
Ia long spring season.
The following men appear at pres !
ent TO be the most eligible jumpers in
the country: Frank Foss Chicago A.
"a. holder of the worlds record height
l3' , s-1O"; Marc Wright. Boston A. |
A. former record holder; Percy
Graham. Chicago. A. A, and Knou-
rech. Illinois A, c., joint indoor worlds
record holders: Floyd, Inter-Allied |
champion, Carl Buch. Chicago. A. A.,
Sparrow Multnomah A. c.: L. Meyers /
of Dartmouth. intercollegiate cham
pion; Harwood of Harvard; r. Card
ner of Yale. WILDER Newsletter, for
merly of University of Pennsylvania. /
any myself. There are several other
possibilities that should develop by
the time of the tryouts,
Eoss Also n GyEnnast.
A successful yaulter is as rule
either "A sprinter or a gymnast. Frank
Foss combined. both; and established /
the present worlds record. Neither
style can claim to be best because
weather conditions and different vault
ing grounds have shown that a pole
vaultcr unlike n runner is never in
u secure position All vaulters will
agree that the details of keeping
@arm. warming up as little as possible
by jumping, having a step, placing the
at the proper distance in
order TO take advantage of the high
est height and clearing the bar on the
first attempt all go to mako up sue
cessful pole vaulter. who must in ad-
iiiton to all this, be u remarkable