The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 12
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 19, 1904

WILL ELAM
RAISED THE STATE RECORD.

     Will Elam of Marlin in a vaulting contest at College Station on Saturday raised the state record to 10 feet and one inch. The feat was what is known in atheletic circle as the "pole vault" and this heigth has never yet been reached by any other Texas man.

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