. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . wills and our hands are joined. HIGH JUMPING AND STEADYGOING The small boy loves a champeen;so do the rest of us boys, disguised asgrown men. We enjoyed hearing a traincomrade, J. O. Gossett of Stockton, Cali-fornia, tell of his friend George Horine,the worlds record high jumper, who willgraduate this year at Stanford. Georgeput up a bar in his back yard and foundhe could do over five feet. With steadypractice he inched along to six feet -i\when he was seventeen years old, then tosix feet six and a half, six feet seven anda quarter, and six feet eight
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . wills and our hands are joined. HIGH JUMPING AND STEADYGOING The small boy loves a champeen;so do the rest of us boys, disguised asgrown men. We enjoyed hearing a traincomrade, J. O. Gossett of Stockton, Cali-fornia, tell of his friend George Horine,the worlds record high jumper, who willgraduate this year at Stanford. Georgeput up a bar in his back yard and foundhe could do over five feet. With steadypractice he inched along to six feet -i\when he was seventeen years old, then tosix feet six and a half, six feet seven anda quarter, and six feet eight and a third—the record. Now jumping seems aboutas far from steady everyday railroad workas anything one can imagine, yet evenin that field, records are made by gradualadvance, which must be held with con-tinual effort. George Horine is not con-tent, however, to stand on his legs has put himself through college l>yselling vacuum cleaners and aluminumware in vacation time. He realizes thatheads make higher records than
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