Athletics of To-Day 1929

Classical Distances In his heat J ackson ignored pace, stuck to schedule, and learned the important secret that if he could be within striking distance of the other finalists at the bell lap he had that wonder– ful finishing burst-perhaps greater than any other miler has ever possessed-to bring him home ahead of all the others. Fourteen runners started in the final, and J ackson failed to secure the pole position. It has been said that he trailed the field, but that is not true; he tried to find a place in the moving file of runners, but he could not; and then aker, "setting up an example of calculated and unselfish pace-making such as may never be equalled among classical foot-runners," 1 ft the living string and b gan to pilot the Oxonian round th m. Jn this way Baker and Jackson must have run so yards further than the re t. And then, as the b 11 clanged for the last lap, the Americans bunch d together, with Kiviat, their best hope, w 11 cov red in the in ide b rth. aker dropped back, but Jackson stayed with the Am ricans n an outside station. oming into the home stretch, he cut loos , and those great, raking strides carried him to an amazing victory in the new Olympic record tim of 3 mins. s6 s CS. Prior to the making of the pr sent Briti h amateur record of 4 mins. r ! secs., A. . Hill (Polyt chnic A..) and his train r, the late . A. Mussabini, had decid d that it would be pos ible for Hill to run a mil in 4 mins. 8 secs., provided he could stick to an even 6z s cs. for ach of four succ ive quarter miles. Wh n the A.A.A. hampionships w r held in rgzr, Hill drew s cond position from the inside of th track, with H. B. tallard, : .A. ., on place from him and W. . eagrov , .U.A. ., nght away on the flank. Hill went straight into the lead, follow d by tallar , with agrov coming acros at great SJ?eed to make the pace for his f llow lue. Hill would not give up th 1 ad, but was forced to run th fir t quart r in 59! secs. and the half mile in z mins. 4 s cs. At the b 11th time was 3 mins. rr sec ., and still tallard wa at Hill's shoulder. From that point th pace incr as d. A furlong from home tallard chall nged, but still Hill piled on th pace. tallard chall nged again nt ring the final straight, but the str ngth