Athletics of To-Day 1929

The Sprints-100 to 300 Yards 47 Duffey in rot secs., although he won the furlong in zzi secs. In England he beat ]. W. Morton at Birmingham, but suc– cumbed toR. Kerr, Canada, in ro secs. at the A.A.A. hampion– ships, Kerr achieving a good double with the furlong in 22f secs. Of the Americans this pair of Britishers were up against, ]. A. Rector (twenty-one years, 5 ft. rrt ins., rr stone 8 lb.) had run " roo " in 9f secs. without getting it passed as a record, and N. ]. artmell (twenty-four years, 5 ft. rr! ins., rr stone ro lb.), had done his " roo " in 9! secs. and 220 yards in 2rt secs. Walker, in speaking of the Olympic roo metres, which he won in rot secs., has often told me that when Rector showed ahead of him at the half distance in the second round, he suddenly realized that he was not fast nough away at the pistol and so sp nt his time on the morning of the final practising starts. Kerr, who was twenty-six years of age, 5 ft. 7t ins. and ro stone ro lb., was a beautifully proportioned, well balanced runner and, like Walk r, a tremendous start r, and this ass t un– doubtedly nabled him to take the Olympic 200 metres in 22! secs. One of the b st and perhaps the most unlucky of our early furlong men was L. . (" Jimmy ") Tr meer, L.A.C. He commenced sprinting in r896, and by then xt year was giving the English roo yards champion a yard and a beating from scratch. In the A.A.A. hampionships he was unfortunate in g tting second three tim sin succ ssion in the furlong, which he hould have w n at orthampton in r903, but burst a sho ntering th home straight ; a fortnight lat r, in a p cial race, he romp d home in front of the champion, . W. Wadsley, Unity A. ., in 22f cs. rom the days of Morton and G orge our sprint titles w nt abroad, until little \Villie Appl garth, olytechnic A. ., appeared in r9r2. H stood som wh re about 5! ft., w ighed not more than 9 stone, an ow d most of his succ ss to the co ching he r c iv d from th lat . A. :Mussabini. It was for Appl garth that " m " inv nted the cross-arm swing and the curious shooting out of the legs from the hips with a thrust