Athletics of To-Day 1929

The High Jump 193 bar, Osborn being a left-foot jumper. The alteration gave him another couple of inches straightaway, and at the University of Chicago Indoor Meet-his first big competition-he cleared 5 ft. ro ins. for second place, and at that time he would still have been well content with the knowledge that he would one day clear 6ft. The following year he took up a number of events, and next spring beat 6ft. by half an inch in California, and later went on to 6ft. zt ins. In rgzr he beat 6 ft. 4 ins. ten times and only dropped b low 6 ft. 3 ins. three times. In rgzz he cleared 6 ft. 6 ins., and in 1924 made the present world's record of 6 ft. 8 4 ins., as well as the decathlon record, only broken by YrjOla, the Finn, at Amsterdam. Osborn's training, which may be a guide to other jumpers, opened with preparatory work in th spring, compri ing sprinting, hurdling, and high kicking to loosen all the muscles and the hips and knees, and pole vaulting and weight-throwing to build up the muscles of the shoulders, arms, and abdomen. In the season proper he dropp d the pole vault, but kept up the other ev nts and jumped three times a week for form at low heights which he knew him lf to b capable of clearing. On ridays he rested, and on aturdays he ntered any com– petition that was going, or tried hims lf out to s e what height he could clear. He was also v ry ke non skipping to develop his feet and 1 gs. Osborn, it must be r membered, is a very robust individual and so can stand a lot of work. Dick Landon, who was subject to illn ss, on the oth r hand, one told me that aft r th ]ate John J. Mack, coach to Yale Univ r ity, had given him his style and groun d it right in, h n d d very little training beyond a small amount of practic b fore m ets and a gr at amount of walking. aker, another r bust athlet , imply bubbling over with nergy, took much the same ort of practice as Osborn, but the mor lightly built jump rs, lik C. T. Van Geyzel, C.U.A.C., and H. A. immon, L.A.C., obviously cannot stand such str nuous work. C. T. Van Geyzel, the C.U.A.C. Cingalese record holder, may, 0