Word: high-jumping
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...after her favorite baseball player, St. Louis Cardinals Outfielder Terry Moore, and she played on the tennis team at Slippery Rock State Teachers College. Terry came on early and strong. He won two letters at Butler High in basketball. He pitched a no-hitter the first time he took the mound for the baseball team. He broke his brother's school high-jump record on his first try. And the fellow who really raised Terry's competitive hackles was a football quarterback from just down the pike in Beaver Falls, Pa., named Joe Willie Namath...
Pardee, who cleared 6-6 in every meet this winter and made 6 ft., 9 in. on two occasions, heads a fabulous high-jump squad. Sophomores Charlie Njoku (6 ft., 6 in.), and John Newman (6 ft., 4 in.) help...
...Edith McGuire, determined to make newsmen eat "all those terrible articles about us last year," led the way to a U.S. sweep in both the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Cleveland's Eleanor Montgomery launched herself 5 ft. 71 in. up and over the high-jump bar, thus ending the meet's longest string of personal wins (five straight) by Russia's Taisia Chenchik...
What help he gets comes from a bespectacled Irishman, Tom Duffy, who first introduced Thomas to the high-jump bar nine years ago at Rindge Technical high school in Cambridge, Mass. "John was a little string bean," recalls Duffy. "He had decided he wanted to be a tennis player. I had to get that idea out of his head, and the only way I could do it was to take him out on the courts and lick him pretty good. Once that was done, he was ready to jump...
...were beginning to creep across the infield, but nobody made a move to leave. Other athletes in brightly colored warm-up suits lounged on the grass, spectators now themselves. The attention of everyone in cavernous Stanford Stadium was focused on a lanky figure poised at the end of the high-jump runway...