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This Day in Observe & Subject–February 7
(1st 15′ Vault, Stones-No WR!, M.Everett Breaks McGrady’s Mark, ’09-NB, J.Simpson, Hobbs Kessler/Born On This Day-Dalilah Muhammad, Trey Hardee/ R.I.P.-Kuznyetsov, Kuts, Moon Mondschein/Blazing Saddles)
1925–Paavo Nurmi ran 9:08.0 on the Wilco A.A. Carnival on the Thirteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn to interrupt Joie Ray’s World Indoor File within the 2-mile (9:08.4).
1942–Cornelius “Dutch” Warmerdam, a constitution member of the Corridor of Fame, gained the Millrose Pole Vault with a leap of 15-3/8 (4.58) to develop into the primary man to clear the 15-foot barrier indoors.
NYU’s Leslie MacMitchell gained the Wanamaker Mile in 4:11.3. (He would win once more in 1946).
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/02/08/85244808.html?pageNumber=132
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Warmerdam
Corridor of Fame Bio:
http://oldserver.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=178
1953–Mal Whitfield ran 56.6 for 500 yards on the NYAC Video games at Madison Sq. Backyard to interrupt George Guida’s World File of 56.9. (2nd of the 6 WRs he would set through the 1953 indoor season)
1975—Two days after leaping over the host throughout an look on the Johnny Carson present, Dwight Stones was shocked to search out out he hadn’t set his third World Indoor File of the season on the L.A. Instances meet.
After a “screaming” clearance at 7-4 (2.235?), Stones had the bar raised to 7-5 ½ (2.275?), 1/4’’ above his 3-week-old report of 7-5 1/4. After lacking on his first try, Stones then cleared cleanly, producing what he later referred to as “THE greatest leap I’ve ever jumped in my life”.
His celebration was short-lived, nevertheless. When officers performed their required re-measurement, they found that the peak of the bar was solely 7-5 3/8, which needed to be rounded all the way down to 7-5 ¼ (2.27). So, as an alternative of a brand new World File, an irate Stones solely acquired credit score for tying his earlier mark!
There was no such controversy within the Girls’s Excessive Bounce, with Joni Huntley including an inch to her American Indoor File together with her clearance of 6-2 ¼ (1.89). Huntley had set an American Outside File of 6-2 ¾ (1.90) two weeks earlier in New Zealand.
In a star-studded Males’s Mile, Filbert Bayi (3:59.6) held on to win over John Walker (3:59.8), Rod Dixon (4:01.1), Byron Dyce (4:01.3), and Steve Prefontaine (4:03.4).
http://www.si.com/vault/1975/02/17/557867/the-record-didnt-measure-up
