Two cripples made sporting news last week:
One-Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar, hopped up momentum without his crutches, hurled himself over in a standard "western roll."
De Villiers lost his leg in a grain mower when he was five, bears a scar on his left leg from the same accident.
One-Armed Whacker. Pete Gray of Nanticoke, Pa., a regular...
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