Athletic Training

92 ATHLETIC TRAINING in height this is possible with them but im– possible with the high sticks. The manner of approaching the hurdle is much the same, the front foot being pointed up, but the lateral stride of the back foot is missing. The stride for the low hurdles is what might be termed arr "elongated" stride~ Very few hurdlers are able to fully attain this. Nat– urally, it can be best acquired by a tall man with long legs. A. C. Kraenzlein, the holder of the world's record for this distance, had it mastered better than any man I ever saw. Kraenzlein could probably sprint 220 yards on the flat in 22 seconds. His world's record is 23! seconds for ten hurdles over this distance, consequently the clearing of these obstacles could have added only 1 ! seconds to his time. This sort of speed requires perfection in the art of clearing the hurdles. In fact, Kraenzlein cleared them so easily that, except for a momentary rise and halting as he went over the hurdle, one might have thought that he were running a 220-yard sprint race. For the same reason that the athlete should take only three strides between the hurdles in the 120-yard event he should take seven be-