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GOURDIN'S RECORD JUMP ACCEPTED

I. C. A. A. A. A. Decides to Have Indoor Meet In New York, March 11

The record broad-jump of 25 feet, 3 inches, made on July 23 in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge track meet by E. O. Gourdin 1L., was officially accepted as a new international record by the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America at its meeting Monday night.

Representatives from each of the larger colleges, forming the executive committee, voted that the indoor intercollegiate track meet would be held on Saturday evening, March 11, 1922 in the Twenty-Second Regiment Armory, 116th street and Broadway, New York. This will be the first indoor intercollegiate meet held since before the war. Although the date decided upon is rather late in the date decided upon is rather late in the season, it was round to be necessary to have the meet scheduled at that time.

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