Coaching and Care of Athletes

COACHING AND CARE OF ATHLETES American title, except in r888, when Lambrecht recovered his laurels while Gray was in England, where he took the English Championship at 43 ft. 7 ins.-a world's record. In 1893 he .in– creased that record to 47 ft. I do not know if Gray competed for the American title in 1895, when W. 0. Hickok, N.Y.A.C., won, but he took his ninth American title in 1896 and his tenth and last at 46 ft. 5 ins. in 1902, by which year he had rejoined the Toronto .A:..C. The end of the nineteenth century witnessed mighty triumphs by Denis Horgan, Ireland, who was thirty-nine years of age, stood 5 ft. ro ins., and weighed 17 stone when he was placed second in the Olympic Games of 1908. He took thirteen English titles, his first in r893 and his last in I 9 I 2. He was American champion in 1900, and won eleven Irish titles, his first in 1893 and his last in r909. His best performance was his British record of 48ft. 2 ins., made at Queenstown in October 1897. The dawn of the twentieth centu:ry welcomed the advent of two tremendous American contemporaries in W. W. Coe, who was built on much the same lines as Horgan, and Ralph Rose, who, when he won the Olympic title in 1908 at 46 ft. 7! ins., in a downpour of rain, stood 6 ft. 5 ins. and weighed r6! stone. But he weighed well over 20 stone when he lost his Olympic laurels four years later at Stockholm by less than an inch. Coe, who was at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, signalized his return to America in 1905 by winning the American title with a new world's record of 49 ft. 6 ins. In 1907 Rose im– proved on that record by half an inch. A year later he beat 50ft., and in 1909 made a new mark of 51 ft., which was destined to stand until]. Kuck, Kansas City A.C., U.S.A., won the Olympic title in 1928 with a new world's record of 52 ft. H in. Leo Sexton, U.S.A., raised the Olympic record to 52 ft. 6-f\r ins. in 1932. Meanwhile new world's records had been established in succession by E. Hirschfeld, Germany, and F. Douda, Czecho– slovakia, both putting 52 ft. 7l ins. Leo Sexton then did 53 ft. t in., to which Douda replied with 53 ft. r! ins. This was in 1932. Two years later John Lyman, U .'S.A. (Plate LIII, Fig. r7o), produced 54ft. I in., and we began to wonder where and when record-breaking was going to stop, for none of these men was of .the bulk or height of Ralph Rose. We had our answer within a fortnight of Lyman's making his record, for Jack Torrance, U.S.A. (Plate LIV, Figs. 173- 175), 402