Coaching and Care of Athletes

THE HIGH JUMP from the foot farther from the bar. Horine, in the new style, approached from the left and took off from the left foot-i .e., the foot nearer to the bar. Horine used a short approach at practically a walk, except for the final three or four strides, crouched slightly as he put his left heel down for the take-off well under the body, and rose straight up from a heel-ball-toes foot-roll and full-powered spring from the left leg. The right leg was kicked high with considerable force in a direction a little to the right of the line of approach. His left side faced the bar until his hips rose to the level of the bar, over which he passed his left arm, at the same time snapping his left leg up to his right leg. Simultaneously he allowed his head and trunk to fall to the left, so that his whole body, at top height, was in one straight line above, and parallel to, the crossbar, as shown in Plate XL, Fig. I I8, by C. Johnson, U.S.A., who, however, jumps from his right foot, whereas Horine jumped from his left foot. Horine then rolled forward and fell, to catch himself in the sand-pit on his hands and left foot. In I9I4 Dr E. E. Beeson, Stanford University, U .S.A., added t in. to the record, using the same style, which was employed also by H. M. Osborn, University of Illinois, U.S.A., when he jumped 6 ft. 8! ins . in I924. Osborn got an even more complete lay-out than his predecessors, and had a trick of tucking the left leg in under the right, well bent at' the knee, when going over the bar. With the Western Roll also Waiter Marty, Olympic Club, San Francisco, U.S .A., jumped 6 ft. 8! ins. in I933 and 6 ft. 9i ins. in I934· Even the colossal height of 7 ft. was now definitely within the range of possibility. On July I2, I936, a very tall, slim American negro, Cornelius Johnson, standing, at a guess, 6 ft . 5 ins., and his fellow American negro David Albritton, standing, perhaps, 2 ins. less in height, tied for a new world's record of 6 ft. 9! ins. Johnson used the conventional Western Roll style, as discovered by Horine and improved by Osborn, but added to the previous technique the trick of shooting both arms over the bar simul– taneously in effecting clearance. Albritton produced an entirely new style, now known as the 'Straddle Jump.' Curiously enough I tried this style in I 9 I r with good results, but gave up high jumping shortly afterwards. It was first fully described in I933 by Dr G. Hamilton Ayres, of California. In the Straddle style the jumper who takes off from the left 343