The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-09
Gould Picks Barnes, Carr,
Dr0egmueller, and Edmonds
As Americas Best; 80 Years
AgO q Mark of IL Feet Was
Sufficient to Win Two Olym.
pic Events

(Associated Press Sports Editor)
New York, June 9.-(R-There
isn't much difficulty selecting the
pole vaulting Big Four to represent
American in the Olympics this year
"a quartet at least that will do un-
til some phenom comes along to up
set the works. s.
They are all college youths and
their names are Lee Barnes, Of
Southern California, the Pacific
Coast champion; Sabin Carr, Of
Yale, the intercollegiate A.. A. A.
A. champion; William Droegemuel-
Ter, Of Northwestern, the Big Ten
champion, and Ward Edmonds, Of
Stanford, the next thing to . cham
pion.
It will take quite q little vaulting
to keep any one Of these four off
the Olympic team. Fred Sturdy Of
Yale, Paul Harrington of the Bos-
ton A. A. or O'Dell Of Clemson Col
lege, an all-around star, might dc
50 but it isn't likely.
Barnes Is Champ
Barnes is the Olympic champion
q title he won four years ago as q
mere Hollywood High School youth
He also possesses the unofficial
worlds record Of IA feet, IL
inches. Carr, the only vaulter in
history who has cleared IA feet
twice in competition, has beaten
Barnes decesively in their only two
meetings in the East, but there ISM
much to choose between the two
Neither has vet reached his peak.
Edmonds, who has done Is feet
8 inches any number Of times
would be q world heater in any day
that didn't happen to know a Cal
or q Barnes. He is in the same
position in vaulting as Little Bill
Johnston was in tennis, playing
second fiddle to Big Bill Tilden.
The slim Stanford star is declar,
ed by experts to be the ideal vault
er and potentially the greatest Of
the present-day crop, but he ha.
not yet displayed the competitive
spirit Of Barnes or Carr. Droege
mueller, the Northwestern star
won the Western Conference it'll.
with . vault Of Is feet 3 inches.
Hoff Was Injured
Two years ago when the Vaultinl
Viking, Charley Hoff, was at hi
peak, breaking records with ride
ulous ease, American supremacy il
the pols vault, checked only oncs
in Olympic history, seemed due fol
another tumble. An injured hee
kept Hoff out Of the 1924 Olympics
where Barnes won the jump-of,
from another California youth
Glenn Graham. Now Hoff ID out o!
competition altogether q Z result o.
prot essionalizing himself in thil
country, not only spoilins the pros
.pect Of : duel with our young stars
but removing the only apparent OBJ
stacle to IN American clean sweep
Carr or Barnes, Il they are Il
form, win have : good chance t,
settle the question Of individual 81
premacy It Amaterdam. The hon
orr 80 far in Cars favor evel
though Barnes has vaulted hal,
inch higher than his Yale rival
Either is capable, however, o
knocking off the Olympic record o
Is feet, 5 inches, made BY Franl
Foss Of Cornell in the 1920 games
Foss, Z great competitor, cleare'
the record height on . rainy d.,
and after dash down . slipper!
runway. He he'd previously left hi
nearest rivals over = foot belov
him. His leap was . worlds tecor,
ct the time and stood until Hot
sprang into prominencs and star
tied the world with . succession o
record performances.
Carr vonlts II Rain
Carr vaulted - feet 6 during