Show IS lEAT ART CARLSON G 01 or TiLE YALI VaultIng Pole has kept pace wIth the majority of or other events In cOllege track and field athletics athletic Some 20 years ago a vault ot or 11 feet 6 Inches was considered plen plen- plenty plen- plen plenty plenty ty good enough to win That was In the days of Leroy Charles Dvorak and Norman Dole Vole The height of a vaulters vaulter's ambi ambi- ambition ambi- ambi ambition ambition tion of course cours was to 10 approach the 12 toot root figure Then came Edward Edwald Cooke Barr Darr Wagoner and others to better that mark It seemed the top-notch top record had ben been reached Still the bar kept goIng gong go ng up until It was close to 13 feet Came tho ho hoseason season of or 1912 At Yale lr university shy sity was a first class vaulter nam nam- named nam- nam named named ed Bob Cob Gardner He lie was quite a sensation In tact fact On several oc- oc oc occasions ho he had come within a few Inches of or the foot 13 level Finally on June 1 of that year Gardner established a new colleg colleg- collegiate late mark by getting over the bar barot barat barat ot at 13 23 feet one Inch He was the thu first athlete credited with a 13 foot 13 foot Coot vault In a 0 collegiate meet After ACter Gardners Gardner's great perform perform- performance performance ance no college vaulter was able to excel the Yale stars star's effort until a couple years or so ago when Vea Dean Brownell of or Illinois cleared 13 feet reet 2 Inches Gardner Gadner b by the way later do- do developed de developed into a golfer of promInence prominence nence He won the national ale aln- am amateur championship In 1916 1915 And An was for the honor In tand end and 1921 He I-fe has since copped several Beveral lesser laurels In 10 years the vaulting pole pole has been hosted bosted about 20 Inches In college competition ITo ITo- day day you must clear 13 feet con con- consistently con consistently to be In the running 00 |