Bound

Dubuque, Ia., is a metropolis which has long been held up to derision by popular sophists. Because the erratic spelling and dubious pronunciation of the name make it seem to suggest provinciality, the smart Alecs of city journalism refer to ituque came, at a single bound, to long-merited renown.

The bound was made by Sabin W. Carr, a native of Dubuque and a sophomore in Yale University. Competing at Yale in intramural track and field games, he took a long pole in his hand and measured off his distance from a white crossbar. For a moment he stood quite still, as if absorbed in reverie; then his feet twinkled on the runway, the end of his pole prodded the ground. His tense body shot up and up, at first vertical, then changing in the air, with the leisured slowness of immense physical effort, to a horizontal position/SUP>