Athletes in Action

HOP, STEP AXD JU:\IP-SU~L\IARY THE photographs illustrating the Hop, Step and Jump event are of A. J. Gray, Poly- technic Harriers, ""'·ho in 1930 won the Southern Counties Hop, Step and Jump Champion- ship, at +6ft. 4t ins., a performance but little short of the English Native record. In the ·\.A.~\. Championships, although beaten by the foreign contingent, he was easily the best of the English competitors. The pictures on the opposite page show the Hop section of the triple effort. In this event the athlete should not attempt to cover as much ground as possible in each of the three phases, but should work in each to force the body forward and up. .\teach landing the heel must strike the ground first, after which the body is lifted on to the toes, from the tips of which the next fonvard movement is made. A good deal of strength should go into the Hop, but it must not be made too high, or the leg will not stand the strain of the forcible landing. In the Hop the athlete, of course, must land on the same foot from which the initial spring was made. tv 0 -......)