Athletics of To-Day by Graham

T ILETICS three hundred yard races with comfort extends his practice to the quarter– mile mark. The other c ass consists of men who ha,·e ne ·er en in the fron rank of short sprin ers ut rather excel at longer distances 600 yards or half a mile. E. C. Bredin and H. C. L. Tindall were good e.·amples of his class. In the quarter-mile race at the International ports I 99, tl1ese two styles of running ~ere well reprc– scn ed. The merican runners Fi her and Di ·on Broadman, and the Oxonian, A. f. Hollins were splendid sprinters · the Cambridge man C. G. Davison, relied upon his long run stride and ha not the pace of his opponen s. The Yale lumni gave a graphic descrip– tion of the race, and as i is ackno ·– !edged to e a race of more han ordinary interest I cannot do e ter llian quote it:- ' The excitement was in en c when Captain T. R Fisher and Dixon Broad– man of Yale . f. Hollins an C. Davison of Oxford and Cambridge took their ositions for the uarter– mile run. The start of the race was in the north-east corner of the ground and the course continued along hrce sides of llie quadrangle around t ·o sharp turns, finishing ·ith 120 yards straight. Fisher took the lead on the 34