Athletics of To-Day 1929

The Sprints-100 to 300 Yards sr loose and relaxed. Take care about digging the starting holes. !hey should be deep enough to give a purchase to all the spikes In the soles of the shoes. The back wall of the front starting hole may slope back a little, but the back wall of the rear hole should be perpendicular, otherwise the rear foot will have to go back to get its drive-out impetus and time will be lost thereby. The advantage of the tt Crouch, position is that it enables one to get an explosive start and to run rising gradually to the correct sprint angle through a distance of twenty– five to thirty yards. Have due regard in covering this initial distance for the body passing through a definite cycle of angles. The sprinter is recommended to make out an angle chart as shown in Fig. 3, on tracing linen, and to have photographs FIG. 2 taken frequ ntly of hims lf from the side at the various stages of the rac , so that he may lay the transparent angle chart ov r the prints and thus heck his body angl s. Learn to go for– war , not up ( ee Nos. 4 and 5, late 5, and No. r, late 7). If you find your elf g tting up too quickly, reconsider your starting positi n; the trouble may be due to the front foot being too close to the line, or th f et being too dos tog ther, or you may be throwing your head back. o. 5, Plate 5, hows the start of the roo yards race, Achilles lub ver us Waseda University Match, rgz . All the runners show exc ll nt tyle in the first stride out of the hol s, although J. W. J. ink 1 (26) is getting up too soon. huhei Nambu, between Rink 1 and A. E. Porritt, shows the best forward body lean, and , higenori Obsawa (7) the b tter foot traction, leg driv and kn e pick-up. The absolut ly correct style in