Athletics (British Sports Library)

188 ATHLETICS so that the feet upon landing make a clear-cut impression. Each competitor is allowed three jumps, the three leading competitors may be allowed three more jumps; but if the extra jumps are not to be allowed such fact must be stated in the programme. It is usual to allow the winner a seventh, or exhibition, jump. If a competitor swerves aside, so that he crosses the take-off line, or line extended, it counts as a try, although he does not actually jump. Jumps are measured from the first break in the sand made by any part of the jumper's body to the edge of the take-off board nearest the pit. The employment of weights or grips is forbidden. World's record in this event is 25 feet 6 inches, and was created at the Paris Olympiad, 1924, by Robert Legendre, U.S.A. The record for the Public Schools Sports Meeting is 21 feet 9l inches, and was made by V. Powell, Clifton, in 1923. Famous long jumpers have bee1.1 of all heights and weights, from the diminutive F. C. Irons, U.S.A., standing 5 feet 5! inches in height and weighing only 9 stone 7 lb., who won the 1908 Olympic Jump at 24 feet 6fr inches, to the Irish giant, the late W. J. M. Newburn, who stood a lot over 6 feet and weighed round about l4 stone, and