Athletics of To-Day 1929

II2 Athletics of To-day of the zone, but if he is finishing strongly the outgoing man may get faster into his running and take over the baton nearer the front limit of the zone. The receiver must watch the in– coming man to judge his condition, but when he has made up his mind about this he should be on the move forward with head and eyes to the front when the transfer is made. The question of how the hand that receives the baton should be held is a vexed one. In the standard method the incoming relay, holding the baton by the lower end, leans forward on his last stride and with left arm at full stretchbrings the upper end of the baton down into the right hand of the outgoing relay, who has his right arm stretched out behind him at an angle of about45° downwards, his hand being turned at the wrist so that the palm is uppermost (see ig. Sa). But I think a better and a FIG. Sa. FIG. 8b. safer method is that in which the receiv r crooks his right arm at the elbow, as shown in ig. 8b, and bends his wrist so that the knuckles of the middl joints of the finger ar level with his right hip. This allows him to ke p hi should r square to the front and al o facilitat sa quick and asy forward arm swing as soon as he has grasped the baton. The man handing ov r should come in on the right of the receiver, and the latter should transfer the baton, which he has received in his right hand, to his left, ither at nee (see Nos. 2 and 3, Plate 14) or within the first fifty yards of his run. He has taken it in his right hand by the upper end and should transfer it to his left hand with an over arm movement-like the action of a man sheathing a sword-so that the left hand is