Athletic Training

PREFACE IX velopment of sprinters, hurdlers, and jumpers. In ·an of these events his ideas were years ahead of his rivals, and they put America correspondingly ahead of other nations. That he was particularly skilful with sprinters was best illustrated by his discovery of the crouching start, which was only one example of his inventiveness. He had experimented with it on himself several years before he taught it to Sherrill, of Yale, who first used it in an intercollegiate meet. This discovery was due to Mr. Murphy's persistent search for some method to reduce, by even the frac– tion of a second, a sprinter's time for 100 yards. This persistent search for new meth– ods was · largely responsible also for the de– velopment of John Owen, the first man who ever ran 100 yards in 9! seconds; Henry Jewett, of Detroit; B. J. Wefers, of the New York Athletic Club, the first man to run 220 yards in 2It seconds; and, finally, of Donald F. Lippincott, who at Stockholm, in 1912, es– tablished _the present world's record of 10! seconds for 100 metres. What he did with the sprints he duplicated in nearly every event on the athletic pro-