New Britain herald., 1927-12-08

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 When the University of Southc California athletic committee rc- gently awarded Lee $. Barnes, cap tain -clect of the 1928 Trojan track team. a merit monogram on the above basis, those officials told in one short sentence the remarkable vaultng career of the far-wcstern star.
 For three years Lee Barnes trained under the greatest of all hard ships-competing while his father lay at homo an invalid with death often near at hand.
 The Barnes family is not one Of independent means and throughout his entire college career. Lee has been the chief support Of the family. His mother also works.
 Lees daily schedule during the 1927 season, when he reached his greatest performances. was one Of efficiency; he guarded every mo- mcnt preCioUSly.
 l>NNlS ibloI lliIl. I'tli i''' t'''N ''N'N 'i classes from o'clock until noon. Each morning he had ono vacant hour, sixty minutes in which 10 train toward the goal Of the worlds greatest vaulter, which he had set tor himself.
 At l o'clock every afternoon. Lee began work at a gasoline station. supplying motorists with gas and oil until closing tiirre at night. The dull moments through the day he spent in studying and not one" dur ing his three years at Southern California has Barnes ever been on the failure" or even the "dangcr' list for scholarship.
 Barnes received one day off week in this fulltimc job. He took it on Saturdays so that he could compete for the Trojan team that day. On trips. Barnes has had to miss only few hours from regular duty on Fridays returning in time to start work Sunday noon. His CO., workers are on duty at these times and Barnes always pays them back by rclicIi ing them. Whenever the Trojan star journeys to the inter colleeiatcs or National A. A. L.. meets he is forced 10 lose money needed by the family.
 Fratcrnitics have been raped in print of late but heres an answer. With Lee and his mother both away ;t ;r e, one 10 do the housework. cook the meals and give the invalid father necessary care. The Barnes family I cannot afford q nurse and fraternity | brothers of Lee Barnes have for tn" past three years done these things to show their loyalty to Lee. On February aS. 1926. in tn" frat ! meet of his varsity career, Barnes ! cleared f3 feet ! 1-S inches for a new American record. Later, cn l May 15. 1926, he broke his own | mark by doing 2 feet S inches at tho Pacific coast intercollegiates at Stanford. At thn national intcrCol- leeiatos he was forced 10 take second 10 Sabin Carr of Yale and later at the A. \. |. meet dropped to third place. Few knew that trying conditions caused his failure.
 Tn spite of his limited time tc practice, Barnes was consistent al 13 feet 6 inches during the entire 1927 season. Not once did he fall below 13 feet Three tines Inc scared over the F feet 6 incl marker. And then at the I. c. IA meet he boosted his own mark tc 13 feet 2 F. inches. Only he anG Sabin Carr remained in competition
 The bar went 10 1 feet. Barne: had tried this height once in 1926 and twice in 1927. Carr had at. tempted this mark 12 previou, times. Both vaultcrs missed twice Throughout that entire meet Barne: vaulted first among all contestants and Carr last. Barnes tried hi:
 third time. ,He cleared the cross
 piece and topped it off coming
 down. On one of his tries, the bal
 had fallen off as he started upward and he had been forced to try again On Carr's fifteenth effort of his Ca, reer, he established the prescn
 worlds record.
 In the athletic code of Southerr California there is d clause award
 ing merit letters 10 members o coast championship teams in foot
 ball. basketball and baseball. II track such awards come only iron an intercollegiate championship. al Olympic championship or a world
 record. Barnes had done none O these since becoming a Trojan. St