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Show GOEHRING BREAKS WORLD'S RECORD New York, Dec 21 Leo Goehring, of the Bronx, the champion nll-arouno nll-arouno jumper of the Mtaawk A C has at last made the Adams brothers Piatt and Ben, lower their coiois At the recent meet of the Brad-hurst Brad-hurst Field club In this clt, Goehring broke the world's record for standing in-door jump, b, clearing thc bar at 5 feci '' inches This is one inch better bet-ter than the former record held bv Ray Cwrj The best that Piatt Adams Ad-ams was able to do was to tie Ewry's record Goehring has relentlessly enmped on tho trnil of the Adams brothois eor sinco he took up nthlotics His i ruling pasBion seemed to be to defeat either Piatt or Ben and for over two vears ho has never missed an oppoi-tunity oppoi-tunity to compote with them. Goehring has dlsplaved great form In the jump lino Coach von Elllng tipped tho scribes to Goching's ability abil-ity a long timo ago Ho said ho was a comer lie was a member oft ho last Olympic team on the regular list Though ho didn't shino in Sweden, ho gained lots of experience and from now on ought to make tho best In the country hiistio to kcop within striking strik-ing distance of him Last j ear in tbe Juniors, indoors, ho captured the standing high Jump event with five feet one-quarter inch On tho steamship Finland, at Stockholm and various other European Euro-pean cities Goehring trailed the Adams's. Wherever they competed he showed too Goehring will cut n big figure in the coming indoor championships oo |