Athletics of To-Day 1929

ISO Athletics of To-day mile in 3 mins. 7 secs., up to 13,000 metres in 58 mins. I7t secs. Intermediate times taken at twenty-three distances were accepted by the I.A.A.F. as tt noteworthy performances" only, as there were only two timekeepers present. This was bad luck for the Italian, as several of his intermediate times were better than world's records. In 1918, Denmark produced two great walkers in G. Ras– mussen, 3,ooo to rs,ooo metres, and N. Petersen, 2o,ooo to 25,000 metres. The records made by Rasmussen still stand, but those of Petersen were eclipsed at the shorter distance by D. Pavesi, Italy, in 1927, and earlier in the same year A. Schwab, Switzerland, did a better time for the longer distance. Pavesi was a dapper little walker and always wore a linen cap of blue and white triangles with an enormous jockey p ak. At the Antwerp Olympiad, 1920, where there were again two walks, we saw Ugo Frigerio, a slim, swarthy young Italian, who also walked in a peaked jockey cap, win the 3,500 metres very easily from . L. Parker, Australia, with C. . Dowson, the English 7 miles champion, fourth, in the new world's record time of 13 mins. I4l secs., and the ro,ooo metres by 300 metres from J. B. Pearman, U. .A., with . E. J. Gre n, r at ritain, third, . C. MacMaster, South Africa, fourth, and W. Hehir, Great Britain, fifth, establishing y t another world's record of 45 mins. 26! secs. At Paris, 1924, where there was again only one walk, Frigerio retained his ro,ooo metres laurels, b ating . R. oodwin, the English 7 miles champion, . . MacMaster, outh Africa, and his f llow Italian, D. Pavesi. These Italians were extra– ordinarily fine walker with a style that wa above suspicion. At Amst rdam in 1928 ther was no walk, but at the ninth Congress of the International Amateur Athl tic F deration, held at the time of the ninth lympiad in Holland, it was decided to reinstate walking t the tenth lympiad to b held at Los Angel , U. .A., in I 32, the race, starting and fini hing in the stadium, to be at a distance of 50,000 m tr s (approxi– mately 31 miles 120 yards) on the roads. It will b , in fact, a "Marathon walk." At the same Congress the definition of