Athletics of To-Day by Graham

.IODEP. .\TIILETI Tht= niversities h;we for years held such a meeting and the ri\·alry is always of the keent:st and the perform. nces, as a rule high-class. B t modern athletics really d. tc from a hot ep ember afternoon in the year r 5. On th. t afternoon the icl·c me of the two athletic nations of the world me for the fir~t tim , and he performance~ were \ ·orthy of the occasion. Year after year the American sport– ing a ers had ublishcd accoun s of m ·ellous times and e. traordinary jumps. I nch by inch the high-jump b r was there eing rais d higher and hi her even time for he hurdles was ea ·1y eaten . In this country the c accoun n:re rca \ •ith the gr·, k u picion. 1 heir tracl's were shorter; the timc-kcepin r was fa Hy ; the hurdle b d loose to1 - . rs \ ·hich after the r ce stre ·cd the ground ; the hurdles were place u on the tr:ick instead of u; on 1 ra · and lastly, he lim, c more suited t 1 0