Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics pened to be an off-year for college pole-vaulters, it has required since 1894 a vault of over 11 feet to win the event at Mott Haven, and, indeed, a man who can't clear very close to that height is no longer considered more than a duffer at the game. Buchholz of Pennsylvania, McLanahan, Allis, Johnson, and Clapp of Yale, Hoyt of Harvard, Horton of Princeton, and Gardner of Syracuse, all have won at these airy figures within recent years at Mott Haven. Horton in 1902 and Gardner in 1903 each cleared 11 feet 7 inches, which stood as the collegiate and inter– collegiate record until the 1904 record of 11 feet 7t inches made by McLanahan of Yale, Gring of Harvard, and Gardner. R. S. Clapp of Yale, although never able to equal these figures while competing in college games, cleared the bar at Chicago in 1898 at 1 r feet wt inches, and McLanahan at the Yale-Princeton dual meet in 1904_established a world's record of 12 feet t inch. The best English record is the 11 feet 9 inches made by R. D. Dickinson of Windmere, at Kid– derminster, in 1891.