Athletics of To-Day 1929

Athletics of To-day hammer, and the whirling motion combined with the potent spirit landed him flat on his back. Ralph Rose (No. 2, Plate 59) the world's master for many a year, and W. W. Coe (No. 3, Plate 6o), both now dead, were contemporaries. Coe, who was born at Boston, Mass., U.S.A., ten years after Horgan first saw the light of day in Ireland, was of just the same height and weight as the Irishman, and, save for consistency, the better putter. In rgoo, as an unattached athlete, he won the first Junior Championship of America at 43ft. 8! ins. with the full-sized shot; a year later he came over to England to take up a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, and won the A.A.A. title at 45 ft. 5! ins. The next year he did 42 ft. rol ins. and also established the still unbroken Oxford and Cambridge Sports record of 43 ft. ro ins. He was back in America in 1905 and won his first U.S.A. title with a new world's record of 49 ft. 6 ins. and held it again the following year at 42 ft. rol ins., exactly the same measurement as gave him fourth place in the rgo8 Olympic contest. He was often in England up to the time of his death and did much to make Rex Woods, the C.U.A.C. Honorary Treasurer, the great shot putter he undoubtedly is to-day. Rose was a very different sort of human proposition from the other two, for he stood 6 ft. 5t ins. and stripped at r6 stone 6lb. when he was twenty-two years of age, and won the rgo8 Olympic Championship. He was born in alifornia and for a time studied law at the University of Chicago. As a boy he showed considerable athl tic promise, which was confirmed in his first championship appearance, when at eighteen years of age he made a new Olympic record at the St. Louis Games of 48ft. 7 ins., but he did not win his first National American title until 1907, in which year he tacked half an inch on toW. W. Coe's world's record, and it was predicted that 50 ft. would at last be beaten at the forthcoming Olympic Games of London. The weather, however, denied Rose the new record, but he reached 47 ft. 2 ins. in an exhibition put with a slippery shot, and at Killmallock, Ireland, on August gth, rgo8, established the present British record of 49ft. 3! ins. In America he went