Traveling at the speed of a sprinter, thrusting a bamboo pole in the ground at the proper moment, Sabin W. Carr of Yale flung himself over a bar that was poised exactly 14 feet above the ground, established a new world's pole vault record. The highest previous flight, 13 feet, 11⅜ inches, was made by Charles Hoff a Norwegian, in 1925.
Carr's vault came at the end of a day of triumph of Pacific coast athletes. For the sixth time within the last seven years, a band of Californians won the track & field championship...
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