Athletic Training

CHAPTER XI RUNNING BROAD JUMP THERE is no particular build required of the boy or man who would make a good broad jumper. I have seen champions who were heavy and tall and I have seen just as good ones light and short. Frank Irons, who won the Olympic championship in 1908, weighed less than one hundred and forty pounds and stood less than :five feet seven inches in height. A. B. Gutterson, who won the championship -in Stockholm in 1912, is a six-footer and weighs nearly one hundred and seventy pounds. In spite of the fact that good broad jumping requires plenty of speed, the holder of the world's record of 24 feet 1 H inches, Peter O'Conner, was a very poor sprinter; but, in spite of these differences in build and in ability to sprint, it still remains true that the majority of our champio;n broad 95 . I l l I