running broad jump

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Chief star: R. M. N. Tisdall, rangy Irishman, who won the shot put, running broad jump, 20-yard high hurdles, quarter-mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

The running broad jump was won by the Queen Mary's entrants.

From The Boy Allies at Jutland by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)

For one hundred and twenty yards, with three-feet-six-inch hurdles, fifteen seconds; running broad jump, over twenty-three feet; running high jump, over six feet.

From Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by Hart, William S.

He had done his nineteen feet in the running broad jump.

From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by McFall, J. V.

"Mr. Hartley is the proud possessor of the English championship belt for running broad jump, having cleared something over 45 feet."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various