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"THE GLEANER"
''JACK P6RTLAND"
JACK PORTLAND at Orillia on Dominion Day. Right shows the youthful jumper cleat the bar in perfect form.
If, a year ago, anyone had even suggested that before six months were up Jack Portland would hold the Dominion Inter-scholastic High Jump Championship and Record, On- tario Open High Jump Champion- ship, Ontario All-Round Champion- ship, Canadian Open High Jump Championship, Onta:r:io Intermediate High Jump Championship and Re-
cord, and that he would represent Canada at the British Empire Gam- ·es and the British Empire in Chicago - i f anyone had even suggested this was possible he would have been told
to stick his head in a rain-barrel. However, all this has happened. Jack went to Montreal last May and surprised everyone by clearing 6 ft.
1 1-8 inches to break the Inter-schol-