Athletics of To-Day by Graham

THLETIC at 6 feet and subse 1ently clea eel 6 feet - • inches. He · s no a all man in fact • a Ii tle beggar t ·o jam- o"" and a rim high,' as , famou Cam– bridae lon (l' jumper describe him. I ut he had brought the art to a erfcc– tion. In hi(Th jumpinr1 it is im ortant to approach the bar vi h the prop r speed and to ay great a en ion t the proper place from 1 hich to a· ff. • fany jumper fi cl, roughly spcal·– ing, that the be t ta ~c-off" is a out half the dis ancc of the jump. It is not ·ell to run at the jump too hard at first ; appro:ich slo ly bracing tl e mu des as one gets nearer, and de– pend on the 1 t fo v trides to g up impetus. great de in jum1 ing dcpe <ls t: pon the sun·ounding · in important match it i al ;a_;s ·ell t ha ·e a fe 'Y d ys' practice o ·er the ar in the c.·act osition it ·ill often , ma ( is , nc , l i h he 90 lcar