Track and field maintained its hold on public interest. Capacity and near-capacity crowds. viewed the better shows the country over. Indoor meets in the East were heavily patronized.
Greatest performances of the year, perhaps, were the pole-vaulting activities of Earl Meadows and Bill Sefton of Southern California. Each reached a new ceiling of 14 ft, 11 in.
Don Lash, brilliant Hoosier, set a new indoor two-mile record of 8.58. to add to his world outdoor mark of 8.58.3.
The mile mark, long United States property, is now held by S. C. Woo-England. This brilliant was clocked at 4.06.6.
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