Athletics of To-Day 1929

The High Hurdles Lancing, returned 16-,! 0 secs. Yet other pre-War hurdlers like H. S. 0. Ashington, C.U.A.C., and G. R. L. Anderson, O.U.A.C., hit upon, or were shown, the proper style. Anderson, who might have developed into the world's greatest hurdler, Ashington, and Powell all fell in the Great War. Then there is the question of tracks. Apart from the cinder paths at Iffiey Road, Oxford, Fenner's Ground, Cambridge, the Army Ground at Aldershot, and the Leed University Ground at Weetwood, there is not a track fit to hurdle on in England, for Queen's Club will provide a meeting place for athletes no more, and the grass course at Stamford Bridge is a standing disgrace to the ground at which the English Championships are held. Despite all disadvantages and discouragements, however, the post-War generation of athletes has produced some really great hurdlers, and the work of such famous old blues as Guy M. Butler, while a master at Lancing, whence came Dyas and a host more of first-class young athletes, is something for which the governing body should be truly thankful. Alec elson, the C.U.A. . coach, is another first-clas instructor. At Eton, Lord Burghl y was unheard of as an athl te. In his first year at ambridge (1924), he ran second to ]. D. . Pendlebury, the high jumper, in 17! secs., but failed to qualify for the 'Varsity side. He thus had the peculiar distinction of representing Gr at Britain in the Olympic Games before he had gained his Blue. L. F. Partridge, .U.A. ., who had hurdled for Great Britain at Antwerp, was also in the Paris team. Partridge was one of Al c 1 on's early p st-War products, and what the great little C.U.A.. coach id for Lord Burghley aft rwards was n thing less than r markable. H re was an athlete who had gone up to ambridge showing somewhere about 18 secs. and whom . R. aby beat in the English Native hampionships by fift en yards in 15 1 7 secs., but who had come on suffici ntly in half a year to run third in a preliminary h at of the lympic Games to . ]. M. Atkinson and S. Anderson. From 1925 to 1927 Lord Burghley held the Inter-University title, r turning 15t secs. in his first ye r and 1St secs. the two subsequent years. In 1927 he equalled