Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 32 | Hopes to Set New Record in Aerial Event

HO HOPES ES TO SET RECORD IN I AERIAL EVENT Former Star Is 15 Whole Team In Himself By Dy iNEA NESt NE Sen Ice Writer CHAMi CHAMPAIGN AIGN Ill III N NOV NY v U- U With 24 With the coveted national l A k A A U V decathlon title emblazoned safe virtual as assurance on his hia record and ad lbs tho ot of o a place p on Americas America's Olympic te team m ne next year yel Harold MJ Osborn keeps up Spartan trIflIng train Ing i iI irest Trick ck athletes athlete II are conceded 5 rest In the fall toU and winter Ibe- Ibe i be- be between be between tween the last ast outdoor meets of summer and the first spring In- In Indoor Indoor In Indoor I door mew me But Osborn has the Idea he Hasn't earned his yet Osborn found work in Chan Chain In order to be near the ot of Illinois gymnasium his old coach Harry Gill He US 15 laan an Instructor o oi 01 the local high Just the other day any lor r practice he be entered an exhibition meet here and smashed a a worlds world's record In the high jump The un- un unofficial un unofficial official record was 6 feet teet T or 1 16 7 7 Inches ot o an eighth ot ot of an Inch higher than the official mark of o Deeson Beeson of ot California As Aa Ii a a lad Osborn could out jump all the other boys In the county hen hen he arrived at the university In 1918 he be could Just clear 6 5 feet 7 By fly grinding ambitious train train- trainIng training ing he added more than a foot toot to t his to-his his leap and made himself one of othe the greatest round all athletes athlete wh ever laced on a 0 spiked shoe hoe WHOLE TRACK THACK TEAM Winning Inning the event ll other stars stan star In the national games in Chicago on Labor Lobor Day this sear ear was the peak ot of o Osborns Osborn's achievement His total score In Inthe Inthe Inthe the round all test waa ws points the largest of ot any winner In A A 1 A U history lIe He wore the tricolor ft the Illinois Athletic club To 10 summarize th that t great days day's achievement he won first In the meter meter OO dash the meter 1600 1609 I the meter nO-meter hurdles the running broad and running high jumps tied for tor first In the meter dash was second In the Javelin throw third In the discuss and shot put and tied for tor fifth In the pole vault that qualify quality him as a whole track team by himself On his poorest relative showing the pole vault he made the re- re respectable re respectable height of 10 feet teet His best record on the broad Jump la is 23 3 feet teet 3 Inches Harry Gill calls him the greatest athlete ho he hoever ever trained HARD D TO SUCCESS It was wall a a long and rough road ho he traveled to that distinction though Osborn was born on an Illinois farm tarm 24 ears eara ago His brothers were athletes bat but not world beaters In college he earned his 0 onn n expenses acting as M Jani jani- janitor Janitor tor br part of ot the time lime Osborn n wears glasses and looks far tar moro more like a college professor than stAr athlete When hen he entered the college ot of agriculture at nt the university Coach Gill shon showed ed him how to roll over the bar Instead of ot Jumping WIth Ith body upright They call It the Osborn roll roil at the universIty now In his freshman year ho climbed to 6 teet feet and kept dovel devel- developIng Dut But the youngster met tou tough h opposition Two To years he entered the round all-round event In the er- er altys alty's bIg ble annual western r c tr c-tr Brutus Hamilton of MI Mis Missouri beat him The third year Osborn beat Hamilton It was as his most Ing triumph he sava SIlS 00