| Show 4 ak 0 nw new york Tork post lost ee riles earle meadows as guest columnist Coluni mst cites A A U needs hugh bradley has as his kuest guest columnist today earle Alea meadows dows the handsome twenty one year old pole vaulter uhn ahn won icon the olympic crown last summer at berlin and who come came within a quarter of an inch of a neav indoor worlds record this winter he tells of the thrills problems and disappointments of on an athlete on the wing by EARLE MEADOWS M f V Y INITIAL takeoff take off into the 1 realm of sports writing should of C ourse course concern the possibilities of a 15 foot vault I 1 think it is coming and its not so very far in the future either but the athlete who makes iland there are many who have the potentiality will need a good imagination and just a bit of dt what it takes to make that height I 1 assume that the rabid track crowd is familiar with the forecast of george the world champion who has predicted a 15 foot leap within the next few years that prophecy certainly is worthy of notice but even though george is one of my best friends and even friends must disagree sometimes I 1 can hardly fall fail into line with his theory the vault will come as a result of combining two qualities namely his own push and the powerful pull of slim sueo ohe my contention is that it will not come by combining these two phases for the simple reason that one asset would offset the other it is quite impossible to combine such a marvelous pull as his with potent push that the oriental possesses the combination would ruin timing in the air my credo is that the vault will result from the addition of a new technique entirely from the standpoint of the actual mechanism after all every vaulter will agree that working for form rather t than h a n maneuvering through the air without a parachute is his aim especially at the above height will agree too that when he made his world indoor record of 14 feet 4 inch inches es a at boston last month his off balance in th the air threw him down head first proving earle that it makes the meadows downward fall dan berous to the pole vaulter get busy coaches the pole vault Is not yet mastered as far as technique is concerned another point I 1 would like to bring out is that with the present system of measurement such as cost me a world record at the garden in the new york A C fames cames a 15 foot vault is impossible it would take all night or day to measure the bar and the athlete would lose his edge im not complaining or criticizing the officials im only asking that they remember this point an ath fete ete trains for 13 years to achieve he e honor of lifting his body to a height previously by man to achieve this record a tremendous men dous amount of energy must be expended it would seem therefore that the measurement should be checked carefully and announced before the record is attempted I 1 thought that winning the olympic pic vault in the rain at berlin was the greatest thrill I 1 had ever known until that night might at the garden when 1 I cleared what I 1 thought and everybody else too was a record height I 1 cant express how I 1 felt because it was such an unusual feeling to be so happy and then the letdown when they told me it was one quarter of an inch short and all because of inaccurate measuring instruments I 1 admit that I 1 want the officials to check with a steel tape before my attempt that night because they would have been standing there gabbing yet probably figuring out the ways and means talking this over and that hot air that would thoroughly have warmed an unheated garden by the time they finished I 1 would have lost my edge at the age of ten I 1 measured the crossbar by my own stature the most accurate means ill never forget how I 1 started to vault with an old worn out rus rug cane and a clothesline clothes line tine and what a thrill I 1 got out of it finally the old cane broke and then came greater competitive desire to go higher than the other fellow my first ambition to become an olympic champion came when I 1 was thirteen it grew and grew within me then litre a dream I 1 was in berlin competing as one of three representing the stars and stripes NOT IN THE BOX SCORE W WITH ITH the close of 0 the florida season jack dempsey will make a flying tour of south america refereeing boxing and wrestling matches the besa best jockey at getting a horse away from the post at miami is a kid named J barba freddy Lind stroms best chance for a big biff league hookup is with the giants bowling is such a popular sport with the people who come to florida for the sun that the newspapers have to carry special signed columns about the tenpin ten pin art two pretty feuds have been simmering in miami all winter one is between the local bookies and the visiting bookies mainly from new york who have cut in on tho the cushy play the other is between those two veteran colonels one two bradley and flamingo joe widener gossipers insist that when money and other substantial assistance was needed when hialeah was reorganized several seasons ago widener solicited bradley as a partner now they aver that with business being very good and a new governor making everybody behave flamingo joe believe in partners bicycle riding has become almost as popular in florida as in bermuda you can rent the thing out on the beach for 1 a day although the men do the most blabbing about big losses clubhouse and grand stand messengers insist that fully 40 per cent of the racetrack wagering is done by women most of the girls it is true debate the matter for hours before splitting a 2 ticket but there are others plenty of them who send it in in C note lots one of them devoted halt an hour to standing in front of the gate the other day complaining about having to pay 1 tax on a clubhouse ducat when she had meant to bring along the 50 cent tax grand stand variety of pass has ideas about ryder cup gene who of late has gone in for all kinds of reducing diets and exercises is down to pounds he thinks this years ryder cup team should be composed of hagen manero shute shute horton smith ralph guldahl and iz pird pi card the cards by the way have little fear of the giants this year they think pitts tony manero has y burgh probably the best team in the league but that the cubs will provide the main opposition and that rip collins win will i star in the full games harry voiler the fight movie man has plans to win the light heavy weight championship with al delaney delaneyy Dela injured hand band incidentally ci has entirely healed and he be will soon resume fighting one of the prides of the stevens brothers the racetrack and ball park r restaurant estaura nt men is that they have more than 1500 employees but that no valued employee ever has left them except on account of death or extreme old age millionaire john hertz s seem eem to care who knows how sore he is about rumors that the illinois racing commission will f favor a v or washington park over his arlington park in the assignment of dates this year wilcey moore former yankee sinker ball pitcher still has a span of mules called babe and ruth which he won from the home run king his first year on the club babe bet moore that he make three hits during the season he made four moore is a gentleman farmer at hollis okla in the winter he is with the kansas city blues this season stan laurel the movie comedian interrupted a vacation cruise to stop in cuba and watch vatch the new york giants work out benevolent citizens of 0 auburn wash are caring for amos rusie old new york giant pitching star and his wife who were dispossessed recently when a mortgage was foreclosed on their farm although his best friends tell him to forget it jack dempsey still dreams of promoting one big heavyweight championship fight harry hooper regarded as one of ct the finest sun fielders in major league history once was charged with three errors on two successive pitched balls when playing right field tor for the white sox ile he fumbled two flies and made a wild throw on one of them shoeless joe jackson new weighs pounds and owns two automobiles joseph widener has shipped tour four juveniles unbreakable silver spear and soda to england fred perry shares ellsworth vines enthusiasm for or golf hans former heavyweight wrestler Is a mat referee on the pacific coast two sophomores with the iowa baseball team on its southern trip are relatives of major league players harold manders of adel la ia right handed pitcher is a cousin of bob feller and arthur manush of burlington is a nephew of heinie manush although glenn cunningham set them both in the same race the american mile record is lower than the worlds cunningham ran the distance in but since the international federation does not recognize tenth of a second timing iri in races above a quarter of a mile the world mark is listed as |
