Athletics

CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNING. in time allowance start is deducted; the man whose time comes out fastest is the winner; thus— NEMO HARRIERS.—5 MILES SEALED HANDICAP. Order and times at finish. Handicap order for prizes. Place. Name. Net time. Start. Handicap time. oj CU s Name. Time. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jones* ... Brown Smith Black White ... Green Kent M. s. 31 17 31 21 31 42 3 2 4 32 26 34 18 35 3i M. s. O IO Scratch 0 45 1 0 0 30 3 40 4 55 M. s. 31 7 31 21 30 57 31 4 31 56 30 38 30 36 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kent Green ... Smith ... Black ... Jones Brown ... White ... M. s. 30 36 30 38 3° 57 31 4 3i 7 31 21 3i 56 The resultshould always be prepared in this manner; it saves time, trouble, and mistakes. Taking the imaginary race quoted, it will be seen that although Jones made the fastest time, beating Brown who was presumed to be speedier, neither are placed, the first prize going to Kent, limit man, and last in. This, however, will give a line for future allotments or more ordinary handicap lines. When a running member acts as handicapper, his own start can be allotted by two other members. This brings us to another importantpoint:— Starting and Time-taking.—15 ntil about ten years ago timetaking in races where starts were allotted in minutes and seconds was carried out in such a fashion that the result was merely a mass of meaningless minutes and seconds withoutsense, times whichrepresented nothing and no one, and to arrive at the value of any particular man's performance, a complicated calculation had to be gone • Winner of medal for fastest time.