Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale freshman, one Sabin Carr, with a leap of 13 feet-took the pole vault and the fancy of the gallery, which perceived in him a likely intercollegiate champion...
...poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...
...championships. A pair of great black legs-flying ebony which provided locomotion for DeHart Hubbard, famed Negro athlete of the University of Michigan-pumped down a narrow aisle 100 yd. long. The watches had ticked 9 and 74/100 sec. Hubbard had previously won the running broad-jump with a leap of 25 ft. 3½ in. He scored 10 points, which surpassed the score of any other man, black or white, in the meet. With a pillar of wind at his back, one Frederick Alderman of the Michigan Agricultural School broke a Conference record for the 220-yd. dash. James...
Norton, Deacon, and Comins of Yale should clean up in the broad jump. Norton became Intercollegiate champion this year in place of his teammate, Comins, who won the classic a year ago. All three can leap at least 23 feet...
...Sporting Club of France, Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," competed with William Harrison Dempsey. High was the goal, the battle stiff. First Dempsey, then Carpentier led; but at last the U. S. pugilist weakened, his thick struts could no longer hoist his knotted bulk; Carpentier took a great leap to the fore, carried off the victory. The event was high jumping. Dempsey missed at 5 ft. 1 in.; Carpentier cleared...