Word: high-jumping
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...High-jump--Larsen and Wolf...
Farrell's objection to the ruling was on grounds of practicability. It would be well-night impossible to keep the crossbar on the standards on a windy day, since, even with the standards previously in use, considerable difficulty was experienced on this score. In the case of the high-jump, it is possible to hold the bar on the standards until just before the jumper makes his try, but any such arrangement, Farrell felt, would be impossible in the pole-vault...
Three events in the University Handicap track meet were run off yesterday. Honors in the high-jump went to E. T. Wakefield '27, who cleared 5 feet 9 inches, with a four-inch handicap. Second place was taken by Charles Jenney '26, while third ended in a tie between S. B. Jones '26, and R. F. Knight '28, who were stopped, at 5 feet 7 inches...
...also voted by the Council to award the major "H" to all men who placed in the recent I.C.A.A.A.A. indoor meet in New York. Those who were given their letter under this vote are: S. R. Jones '27, for placing third in the high-jump; A. M. Miller '27, for winning the 70-yard dash; J. S. Murphy '25, for placing fourth in the running broad jump; and L. W. Ryan '26, for placing in the two mile run. The other men who placed in the intercollegiates have already won their major letter...
...tottering. Seated on the ground, Osborne looked imploringly up. Nearby, mute, sat the magic shoe. The bar, as if upheld by legerdemain, stopped its quaking, its teetering, rested fast on the uprights, 6 ft. 61/4 in. up. Thus was a new world's record for the indoor* high-jump set? one inch higher than that made by Brown and Landon in the Millrose meet two years...