The Washington times., 1928-05-25
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BOSTON, May 25.-Com
petitive sport s annual leg
show will undergo its dress
rehearsal at the first day !
trials of the intercollegiate
"a. IA. "a. "A. championship
games this afternoon and, from
al the writer can learn, every
thing is away up in the air
This, Of course, isn't an attempt
60 say that the situation is not
well In hand with or without the
Marines. 1t merely means thar
Lee Barnes, Southern California,
and Sabin Carr Vale. present and
past holders of the worlds record,
will appear in the pole vault and
with lads like these around, an or
binary second.story man will think
he is working in a man hole.
The sky IS not the limit with
this pair. It's merely the take
off. When they get through with
an afternoons outing. they
usually make IA feet look like
the heat for second men IN the
low hurdles.
n addition. there is to. be con-
eidered Ward Edn1onds, of Stanford
who is said to I've potentially
better vaulter than either Barnes
or Carr; meaning that the only
Z u. =
fTa0 both is that he can't seem to
vault quite high enough. Edmond =
hest Is 8 mere Ii feet Z inches, but
they say his form is perfection it
self.
Il might say that the thing to do
III Wards case is TO take this
particular feature Of the show be
fore Ziegfeld. But. Of course,
won't. Anyhow, Edmonds might
beat ia feet himself and take the
play away from the other two.
A new worlds record is taken for
aranfed as q result of this meeting
between the sl1yswriters of sport.
Carr did his Il feet for the record
iii the same games last year, beat.
frr Barnes. who failed because he
licked the barr off with a careless
elbow after soaring comfortable
over the heights In question. Sub
sequently, Carr added an inch ia
the record in the national indoor
championships, wl1ereupon Barnes
saw the raise and boosted it a frac-
ton OF an inch In coast meet. He
still fl waiting for Carr to coli
or fold his cards for the time being.
The tWO-Gay meeting, starting
this afternoon and ending to-
morrow. will afford the Yale
man this opportunity. It also
will give the athletic world
some fIlkling OF whether the
15-fOOt vault is within the scope
Of human endeav0r Or is only 4
fantasy Of some slightly dis
ordered imagination.
II there Is anything else thai
needs proof by nightfall tomorrow
it probably won't be the current
impression that California harbors
few capable athletes. That State
has failed to furnish the team cham
pion only once in the last seven
wears and the general understand
! ing is that by tomorrow night the
eastern score will be one out oil
eight.
stanford, they say, can't miss.
what with a probable double winner
still Is waiting for Carr to cali
discus; Emerson Spencer. the better.
than-4S-second quarter miller: Fred
Zombro and Kimban Dyer. 24.fOot
broad jumpers: Bob KTag, G.foot G.
inch high juniper: Ross Nichols. Is.
second hurdIer, and others. The
latter figure to come in about as
handy as a ladies' mustache cun
Stanford is Handicapped" to score
all of As points. which is almost
enough to win two meets.
Southern California, featur.
ing the potential double winner
81 the sprtnts, Charley BOrah.
- expected to make a western
carnival OF the thing by finish
ing second to Stanford.
The University of California prob.
ably won't be better than sixth or
seventh. A source OF much en-.
couragement to the East. With
some ~ teams I'm the field. it ex.
poets to put on, sensational rally
ano finish third in it's own games
Yale, Pittsburgh, Cornell. Dart
mouth, Penn State and Harvard are
about equally favored to attain this
doubtful distinction.
in addition to the pole vault, rec
ords are possible in the furlong
nigh jump, broad jump and severa
or the weight events. However
even IL Borah has 1t in him to nil
his 20 $40 for the furlony. hi!
recent lameness may have left mir.
a bit short in his training
Monty Wells, Dartmouth hurdIer
and several other headiiners like
wise have been hampered b,
injuries but performances In gen
eral figure to average up with IN.
stand-out records of the last decade
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