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Show He Flies Through The Air With The Greatest Of Ease v. v-.n George Varoff, holder of the world pole vault record, and Bill Hayward, track coach of the University of Oregon, who Is pouring George's ration ra-tion of pineapple juice which he includes In his training diet FEW would think of milking cows as likely to lead to a new world record In the pole vault, but triumphs tri-umphs in athletics 6s well as in other fields frequently trace back to such apparently unrelated origins. George Varoff, who recently set a new world record for this event, worked on his father's farm when a boy, and milking the cows helped Rive him the great strength in hands and arms so necessary to the pole vaulter. It was at the forty-eighth national senior meet of the American Athletic Ath-letic Union, held this month at Princeton, N. J., that George established estab-lished the new record. Until a week before he had never vaulted 14 feet, but at Princeton in his first try at the dizzy pinnacle, he zoomed to the world record of 14 feet 6 Inches, more than an Inch better than anyone had ever done before. The farm where George grew up was on the Island of Maul, in the Hawaiian group. Money was none too plentiful, and there were younger brothers and sisters. George's mother, however, was an intelligent as well as a hard-working parent, and the diet she served her brood of growing children, George believes, was another important factor In his unusual muscular development. There was always an abundant fare of fresh fruits and vegetables and George, who retains his fondness fond-ness for the pineapple which Is practically eynonymous with Hawaii, includes pineapple Juice In his training train-ing diet During the train ride East, With other athletes bound from the West Coast for the AJV..U. meet, KM World Varoff just after he had esUbll.M a new pole vault record at PrM ton, New Jersey. ' George even sold his fellow stWeW on his national beverage, the wj buying the pineapple juice in at stops on the way. v Several years ago George W matriculated at the UnlrersW " Oregon. It is big Bill Hsy track coach at the Univer tj Oregon for 34 years, who Is Wfw responsible for George ment as a polo vaulter. CnrWj reminiscent of George's eariy perience on the farm Is one t exercises Coach Hayward .V scribes for his boys. To strengtMJ their fingers and arm muf has them carry in each coat poc a tennis ball which they form " habit, of alternately squeezing releasing, calling into play mCB, to same use of the muscles 89 volved In milking a cow. |