[3] Marty duplicated the mark in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum while winning the 1929 CIF California State Meet.
[9] Marty was selected to tour South Africa that fall as one of nine American track and field athletes.
[20][21][22] Johnson won the 1933 AAU title with a jump of 6 ft 7 in (2.00 m), ahead of Marty, who shared second place with Spitz.
[19] Marty was then briefly sidelined by a bruised knee but returned in time for the NCAA championships in Los Angeles, where he tied for first with Spitz at 6 ft 6+3⁄4 in (2.00 m).
[33][34] The top two - Johnson and Dave Albritton - both sailed over 6 ft 9+3⁄4 in (2.07 m), breaking Marty's world record.
[33] Marty used the high jump technique known as the Western roll, pioneered in the early 1910s by George Horine and Edward Beeson.