Athletic Training

104 ATHLETIC TRAINING all high jumpers observe, there are any num– ber of styles, or "lay-outs," as the jumpers term them. Style is pretty much a matter of individual taste, and I have always found it best to vary my methods of coaching to suit the individual. M. F. Sweeney had per– haps the most perfect form for a high jumper. George Horine, of Leland Stanford Univer– sity, who is now credited with the world's record, 6 feet 7 inches, had a style peculiarly his own, but it was not one which I would advise the average boy to imitate. Horine himself had no success with it in the severe competition at the Olympic games. Alma Richards, who won the high jump at Stock– holm, had an equally peculiar style, and, like that of Horine, not suited to the average boy. Richards almost rolls himself into a ball as he clears the bar. He possesses the most ab– normal spring I have ever seen in a human body, and it was this which enabled him to clear so great a height with his peculiar style. In this book I propose to outline the form best suited to the average man. We shall assume that the candidate jumps from the left foot. In this case he should run toward