Athletic Training

62 ATHLETIC TRAINING true is proven by the wonderful run of J. P. Jones, of Cornell, in 1913. In fact, the time for the various quarters of this race stamped Jones as almost.superhuman. He ran the first quarter in 61 ! seconds. He finished the half in 2.on- and the three-quarters in 3.16t. Then he ran the last quarter in 58t seconds . . This was sufficient to enable Jones to win, but if he could have been paced to run the first half in about 2.03 he would have done 4.10 or better for the distance.- EDITOR.] The best kind of training for the mile run is cross-country running taken in the fall and winter. Endurance is of great importance in this race, and. there is. nothing like this kind of work to make any youngster strong. Fur– thermore, it is a sort of training that will do almost any boy or young man more good than he imagines. In proof of this contention I would mention an instance when I had three hundred men at one time doing this sort of work into the middle of January and keeping it up until well in March. So beneficial was it that the smallest gain in weight for any of the boys was 8 pounds, while one man gained 19 pounds.