Athletics of To-Day 1929

The Hop, Step, and Jump 221 event, and at Antwerp in 1920, V. Tuulos, a short, stocky Finn, took the Olympic title at 47ft. 7! ins., with Folk Jansson, a tall, lean Swede, an inch behind him, Swedes being third and fourth, and Dan Ahearne sixth at 46 ft. 2f ins. The English repre– sentatives, big B. Howard Baker (see hapter XV), and little tiuy C. E. Lively, jumped respectively 44 ft. rot ins. and 43 ft. If ins. Tuulos followed up his Olympic success by winning the hop, step, and jump at the Gothenburg Exhibition in 1923 at so ft. S 9 11 ins., Folk Jansson (No. r, Plate 30) doing 48ft. 2f ins. for second place. Meanwhile, England had at last produced a man in J. Odde, Polytechnic A.C., to beat 46ft. and three more in J. Higginson, Northern Champion, and D. G. Slack and H. A. Langley, Midland Champions, who had done better than 45ft. The 1924 Olympic competition at Paris was remarkable in every way. None of the Englishmen jumped up to form, Odde producing the best effort of 43 ft. IIf ins., nor could Dan Ahearne (U.S.A.) or De Hart Hubbard, the negro long jumper, who had been touching soft., go anywhere near world's record form. L. Bruneto, a heavy 6 ft. Argentinian, with his first jump cleared so ft. 7! ins. for a new Olympic record, V. Tuulos, Finland, so ft. 5 ins., V. J. Rainio, Finland, 49 ft. 2~ 5 ins. and Folk Jansson, Swed n, 49 ft. rt ins., also eclipsing the previous Olympic best. With his very last jump, however, A. W. ("Nick") Winter, a regular d vil-may-care Australian, came down the path at tr mendous speed, rose cleanly from the board, and gave us a new world's record of so ft. rr 1 3 ins. Bruneto tried to beat this and indeed seemed to me to get more than 52ft., but lost his jump through fouling. M. Oda, Japan ( o. r, Plate 31), sixth at 46ft. 9 ins., was at that time only a schoolboy. But his feat marked the first entry of Japan into international athletics as a serious competitor for Olympic honours. Before 1928 came round and we prepared to go to Amsterdam Tuulos had again cleared so It., Bruneto was credited with SI ft. odd, Oda had won the Far Eastern hampionship at soft. 4 °-w- ins., and at the English Championships, H. de Boer,