Jones, the US Champion, was expected to win from Serviss, who had
jumped 1.94 in 1903. Jones duly won, and then failed at 1.89, just short
of his best of 1.90. Serviss was second after a jump-off with Weinstein,
who was simultaneously competing in the Standing Long Jump.
Weinstein’s style was summed up in Charles Lucas’s book The
Olympic Games 1904 with the words “little can be said other than it is
far from graceful.” It was in fact an early version of the “Western Roll,
”usually said to have been initiated by George Horine, the first man to clear 2m.