Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

The jumps and the Pole-Vault 367 Stonebridge, on August 15, 1887, he broke the English amateur record with a leap of 6 feet 3t inches. Page's jumping style was practically that of the best jumpers of the present day. He approached the bar directly from the front slowly, took off from his right leg and twirled his body as he was clearing the bar, so that he landed on the other side facing the way he had come. That his best performance seemed al– most incredible at the time it was made is not to be wondered at. It is an extraordinary feat, when you come to think of it, for a man to leap with– out artificial aids from solid ground to a height 9f inches above his head. Once the six-foot mark was cleared there ap– peared a number of athletes to keep the record high, just as plenty of ten-second men appeared after Owen had done better than even time. From Harvard came George R. Fearing, Jr., to win the high jump at Mott Haven, in 1890, 1891, 1892, and 189 3, once at 6 feet, and again at half an inch better than that. Fearing's 1891 jump at Mott Haven of 6 feet was made after he was pretty well tired out from running several heats in the hurdles. He never, oddly enough, was able to jump as well out-of-doors as from a board floor, and in the spring of 1890 at some indoor games in Boston he made his best record of 6 feet 2t inches. Fearing was 6 feet I inch in