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Then it was Tumbler Browning's turn to draw the cheers. Browning, who has caused a storm of controversy in track and field circles by his trick high jump (TIME, Jan. 25), went through his now-famous tumbling approach routine that lifts him up and over a high-jump bar higher than the world record. He first cleared the rod at 6 ft. 8 in., then somersaulted over at 7 ft., half an inch over the record. As a topper, Browning cleared 7 ft. 2 in., to resounding roars from the crowd. Browning's coach, Charlie Pond, growlingly...
Browning's knack was discovered by accident. He was practicing flips and somersaults under the admiring eye of Illinois Gymnastics Coach Charley Pond recently when both coach and pupil were struck with the same idea: Browning was clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters...
...Milwaukee, Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Ken Wiesner broke his own indoor high-jump record by going up & over the bar at 6 ft. 9⅞ in. in the Milwaukee Journal games. Wiesner's old mark (TIME, Feb. 2): 6 ft. 9½ in. Moments later, Len Truex, onetime Ohio State runner, whipped around the track in the fastest mile of the indoor season...
...stand against him. His father was a street-corner evangelist, his mother a peaceful Bible-reading woman, but Big Jim was born for combat. At 16, he was working as a boilermaker in East Los Angeles. At 21, he stood 6 ft. 1½ in., weighed 212 Ibs., could high-jump 6 ft. and run 100 yds. in eleven seconds. He could hit like a jackhammer and, in the words of Gentleman Jim Corbett, "couldn't be hurt with an ax." In 1899, when he was 24, he knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons in a fight at Coney Island...
...Philadelphia Inquirer Games, Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Ken Wiesner, Olympic runner-up, went up & over the high-jump bar for a world indoor record of 6 ft. 9½ in.-¼ inch above the old (1937) record set by a fellow Marquette graduate Ed Burke...