Then one of the judges turned and held up his hand.
“Dade Morgan’s record is——”
He paused. The hush of great expectancy seemed to keep every one from breathing. He finished:
“Twenty-one feet and three inches! Morgan wins the broad jump.”
Two more disgusted men than Frost and Manton it would have been hard to find.
They had not dreamed the broad jump would be won in such a manner.
Of course, Necker was also disgusted, but he tried to conceal it and appear a good loser.
The high jump followed.
Ten men were entered for this, both Morgan and Merriwell being of the number.