Athletics of To-Day by Graham

ATHLETICS neces ary to start a solu ely at one's fastest pace · if one goes slo ;vly at the start it is ,·ery hard a£ en ·ards o increase the spee . In handicapping scratch man is put so many yards ehind the line · ·n this cas it must e remembered tha the s e s to the first hurdle , ·ill no e the same and that the increa d ace \ ~m ro ably land you farth r O ·er than is usual \Vhen starting from he scratch . Tobeginncrthc hreeste s e \·een he hurdles presen a grea di cult · but \·hen once ace i acquired the dis ance bet :veen he hurdles ·i I ap– pe r much les and the tendenc · ill l e o take off too near the ne. · bur le than o e too far from i .