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Show IBS STARTS rairaiEi Holder cf Olympic High! Jump Record Will Bfc j on Deck May 8 ! Alma Richard, cno of the greatest' all-around athletes ever developed mi the United Str.'-s, a staV at the "Y" at Provo, at Corneii. at the Illinois. A. C and in many oilier club togs, has )iad a great record as an athlete. And sometimes peoplo wonder just how some of tho groat stars take to the games. And so here you have the secret. se-cret. Early in 1910 Richards, a young-stprs, young-stprs, was playing with a wild "Bull" n his dad's farm. The enraged bull in answer to a red flag waved by Almii I started in hot pursuit. In his attempt! to cr.cape. Alma npproached a fence, I which was 5 feet G Inches in height. I To take time to climb the fence might I moan ruin, so Alma took a long run, jumpc-d, and landed safely on the other oth-er side, thus, defeating tho "mad" bull. Thus, tho career of a great athlete was started. Richards entered the Htatp Inlerscholastic meet at Salt Lake In 1910 and copped 16 points. The three yours following he competed for tho B. Y. U. winning threo or four firsts in the intercolleglates in- those years. He entered Cornell university In 1913. Me was high point man in both indoor and outdoor work during tho 1915 and 1916 seasons. At San Francisco in 1915 Richards wont the all-around title with ease. He was crowned the best athlete in tho U. S. that season. In 1918 he won the national shot put championship champion-ship in the A. A. U. games. In 1915 ho won the high jump in the Pcnu games with a leap of G feet 5 inches. The star will wear the colors of the Ogden A. A. in the trials for the Olympic games and eastern scribes have already started praising the athlete. ath-lete. Following is a list of his records. High Jump. Olympic record, G feet 4 inches, 1912, Stockholm, Sweden. Indoor Intercollegiate record or United States, G feet 4 Inches, New York City. .Middle Atlantic indoor record, G feet 2 3-4 inches, Philadelphia, Pa. Utah Intercollegiate record. G feet 2 3-8 inches. May, 1911, Provo. Cornell university record. G feet 5 inches, April, 1915,'Philadelphia, Pa. Collegiate record of United States, G feet 5 inches. National high jump champion 1913, 6 feet 1 3-S inches. Penn Relay high Jump. 1916, 6 feet 3 inches, also high point man. Won 1. A. A. A. A. C- indoor high Jump title, indoor records, at Chicago, record G feet 4 inches. Central A. A. U. high Jump champ, 1914, and 16 pound shot in 1915. Broad Jump. Indoor intercollegiate record of United States, 22 feet 3 inches. March, 1916, New York City. : Cornell record. 23 feet 1 1-2 inches, May, 1915, Cornell, Pa. Utah intercollegiate record, 22 feet 5 inches, May, 1913, Salt Lake. Utah record, 22 feet 10 inches, May, !l913, Salt Lake, U. of U.-B. Y. U. 16-Pound Shotput. Cornell university record 45 feet 11 3-4 inches May. 1916, Boston, Mass. Utah A. A. U. record, 44 feet 5 inches, July, 1917, Provo. 12-Pound Shotput. Middle Atlantic record, 50 feet 6 Inches, June, 1915, Philadelphia, Pa. 56-Pound Weight. Central association record,' 31 feet S Inches, July, 1915, Chicago. Discus. Utah A. A. U. record, 126 feet 9 inches. Iu the inter-allied games at Paris last July he was high point man in the meet, taking two firsts, a second dual meets with Harvard, Yale and Penn he romped home with an average aver-age of three firsts "yearly. The i;ecords published are all officials and complete. |