In New Haven, Sabin Carr of Yale and Dubuque, Iowa, holder of the world's pole-vault record, failed to jump 14 feet.
To the French Olympic Committee the French Government gave 1,500,000 francs "for preparation," promised 1,500,000 more in June. Said the secretary of M. Briand, Foreign Minister of the most parsimonious nation in the world, "We can't afford to lose."
Lyle Womack (Mr. Ruth Elder) last week won a fight in Panama. Fighting under the name of Jeff Ross, which he likes better than any of his other names, he is said to have beaten all the amateur and professional middleweights in the...
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