Show AN ATHLETIC FEAT The High Jump of a New Jersey School Boy BUFFALO BILL IN PARIS CLOVER A Breakfast i Given in IlLs Honor by a French Countess Horse Races and Base Runners Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK May 29A sixteen year old boy in Newark has given the authorities on athletics something to ponder over At a recent contest he won the medal for the best running high jump He cleared a bard bar-d feet and lj inch above the ground and he has since done three inches better But his manner of getting over the stick is novel and although he received the medal for the best achievement in the class the cass others who were behind him have entered protests as t the regularity or legality of his method of high jumping The boy is David Pickering a son of Silas Pickering a jewelry manufacturer He is a wellbuilt boy with clear blue eyes and he looks fully two years older than his record in the family register He has been a member at the gymnasium of the school for about a year and he is now at the head of all of the pupils In the games of Friday last he astonished all of the onlookers by making the running high jump headforemost He dived over the stick at the five foot one inch mark and landed first on his hands and then on the back of his neck I was such an unusual feat that the judges did not know how to decide upon it They consulted the rules for high jumping and could not find that they prescribed how a contestant should clear the stick or string or how he should alight and in the absence of any definition they awarded Dave the medal The contestants con-testants protested against his manner of jumping or diving and have asked for a decision by the best athletic authority in the country He says he has not practiced the jump long He believes that with a little more practice he can excel W B Pages famous jump of G feet 4 inches in Philadelphia October 71SS7 but if they are going to decide against his manner of making the aerial flight he will not pursue it any further unless there is a special class of high divers and he finds other athletes willing to take the rsk He began to dive over a four feet bar and landed on a mattress in the gymnasium but soon discarded the mattress and got accustomed to going over the bar at 5 feet and 6 inches and even then he cleared it by at least six inches He says that he does not think the risk any greater than a simple somersault and that he believes that if the rules were decided against him on the score of landing on his hands he will combine a somersault with his jump so that he can land on his feet |