Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-12 | Page 10 | Olympic Hopes

IIo L' L Ii The last Olympic pole vault champion champon cham pion pon Sab Sabin in Carr winner at Amsterdam Amster Amster- d darn dam m in 1928 was a Yale man mon The next one if it he should happen to be Fred Sturdy will bring further glory to o Old Eli Ell Sturdy is a Blue graduate taking post postgraduate post graduate work vork in the law school chool As Carr was intercollegiate pole vault king so was Sturdy after I him This succession of titles may st l through the 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles The former Blue vaulter has often octen flirted with world record heights only to fall faU b by the narrowest mar gins Even when Carr was supreme in n 1928 Sturdy was proving a capable capable ca pable understudy with heights good for or third fourth and fifth firth places In 1929 he stepped into his own with winning vaults in the Yale Yale Harvard Harvard and the combination Yale and Har Han Oxford yard and Cambridge dual contests the Penn relays and the Indoor and outdoor I. I C C. C games His lowest victory height was 13 feet 3 3 2 12 inches in the Yale-Harvard Yale encounter encounter en en- counter the highest was 13 feet 9 inches a tie tic for first With Williams of Southern California and Edmonds of Stanford in the outdoor inter inter- Since graduating from Yale Sturdy has been competing for the Los Angeles An An- geles A. A C. C for whom he won indoor indoor indoor in in- door A. A A. A U U. titles in 1929 30 and 31 He Ho will represent the Los Angeles Angeles An geles in the Olympic trials