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The article features skier Arthur Brenden Devlin. He began to master the art of ski jumping at the age of five. He was ruled out of the U.S. Olympic team and the 1948 Winter Olympics due to a crash landing. He executed two perfect jumps of 211 and 220 feet on a smaller hill in Banff, Alberta and won the North American and Canadian championships. His performance in Alberta made him the best ski jumper in the U.S. and one of the best in the world.

The article focuses on the career of Sam Patch of Passaic Falls, New Jersey who became famous for his leaps. He started his career by jumping the Pawtucket Falls in Rhode Island before the admiring townspeople. His first public jump was when a covered bridge was being laid across the scenic Passaic Falls. He was invited by a group of Buffalo citizens in New York to jump over Niagara Falls.

Focuses on skiing experience of the author over the White Mountains between New Hampshire and Maine. Route of skiing taken by the author; Problems faced by the author during skiing; Steps for learning ski jumping.

The author presents opinions on sports events in the U.S. The author believes that professional golfer Arnold Palmer is a perfect student of his own philosophy which recognizes errors. The decision of Doctor Joseph C. Elia, chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, to declare Sugar Ray Robinson as the champion of the world in Nevada is criticized. It is asserted that barrel jumping is not the world's fastest-growing sports because its player and winners are not famous.

The article talks about sports in prisons. U.S. prisons provide sports as recreational fare for inmates, often producing athletes that are at par with their counterparts who freely compete outside its walls. Some of these prisons include a New York state maximum-security penitentiary at Dannemora, which is conducting bobsled runs and ski jumps in winter and the San Quentin prison in California, which is offering 12 different sports, from chess to boxing.

This section offers news briefs on the U.S. sports scene in 1962. The Western All-Stars, led by most valuable player Bob Pettit, beat the East All-Stars 150-130 in the all-star game of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Italy won the two-man world championships of bobsledding over Germany. Dick Tiger of Nigeria, the second-ranked middleweight, beat Florentino Fernandez by sixth round technical knockout (TKO) in Miami Beach, Florida.

The article focuses on the U.S.-Russia track meet held at the Edwards Stadium of the University of California in Berkeley in July 1971 where American high jumper Pat Matzdorf the 1963 high jump record held by Russian athlete Valeri Brumel. Matzdorf is a math major from the University of Wisconsin. The U.S. men's team beat the Russian team with a score of 126 to 110. Some noted U.S. athletes who did not participate include Marty Liquori, Ralph Mann and John Smith.

The article offers news briefs related to sports. Philadelphia Warriors' Wilt Chamberlain sets National Basketball Association (NBA) record for scoring 100 points in one night against the New York Knicks. Helmut Recknagel scores highest jump which landed him his second world ski-jumping championship in Zakopane, Poland. Dame Pattie Menzies officially baptizes Australia's yacht contender for America's Cup named Gretel, at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.

The article profiles ski jumper Art Tokle. It mentions that Tokle took his first jump at the age of 18 months and is now one of the most successful ski jumper in the U.S. wherein he won 17 of his 19 meets in New York. It also states that Tokle credits his longevity as a jumper to his trade as a carpenter because it strengthened his legs and ankles.

Profiles U.S. jumper John Thomas. Family background; Inception of his participation in the Olympics; Awards won by Thomas.

The article looks at John Curtis Thomas, his athletic career, and his personal life. He became interested in track and field while he was still in high school at Rindge Tech in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where U.S. athletics stars including Olympic gold medalist Charlie Jenkins originated. Thomas earned his spot at the U.S. athletics team for the 1960 Olympic Games by winning the Millrose Games, wherein he jumped at a distance of 7 feet.

The article reports on developments regarding various athletes including seventh-grade student Colin Relphorde who won the high jump, seventh-grade student Grover Cleveland Barron who won Florida's boxing championship in the 92-pound class, and 15-year-old Darla Pryor who pitched for the Oklahoma Cobras and won the National Girls' Slow Pitch Software Championship.

This section offers sports news briefs as of April 1963. The insurance man Wayne Breck of Arizona won the 46th Southwestern Golf Association championship. Susan Walker broke the Mexican senior women's high-jump mark and placed second in the low hurdles in Mexico City. Joker Osborn clinched the men's overall title at the Dixie Water Ski Championships at Cypress Gardens in Florida.

The article offers news briefs on notable high school and amateur athletes in the U.S. as of March 1960. U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Blankenship won first in the .22, .38 and .45 caliber events of the National Midwinter Pistol Championships that was held in Tampa, Florida. A 13-year-old jumper Sandra Vitvitsky won the male category in an invitational jump held in Lake Placid, New York. World Open Court Tennis champion Northrup Knox has regained his national amateur title in a match against defending champion James Bostwick in Boston, Massachusetts.