Athletic Training

MIDDLE-DISTANCE RUNNING ·47 both the 100 and 220 yards in even time, and yet had enough strength for the double furlong. Another such runner was C. D. Reidpath, of Syracuse University, holder of the intercollegiate record of 48 seconds, and of the Olympic record for 400 metres. Rep– resenting the second might be mentioned J. E. Meredith, of the University of Pennsyl– vania, and winner of the 800 metres run at the Olympic games. Meredith's best dis– tance was somewhere between the quarter and half mile runs, but he was able to run the 440 yards in close to 48 seconds. The quarter-miler whose chief dependence is his sprinting ability will do his best work in the first part of the race, while the other type of man will maintain a more even gait for the entire distance. Of the two types, the sprinter, provided he has the endurance, is the more likely to be the record-breaker. Probably it is because many schoolboys turn their attention to quarter-mile running that it is so frequently overdone. It has been my experience with college athletes that many of them injure or unfit themselves for first.– class work as college men by too much quarter-