Olympian Field Events

TI-IE RUNNING HIGH ]VlviP. 51 i? their method , and make a careful study of all those ltttle points of d tail which are so ss ntial to the first– cla perform r. One feature all fir t- Ias hiah jumpers have in common i that all are .· eedingly hicrhly strung and n rvous to an alm t painful d gr e. As to the build f the ideal high jump r, it i diffi ult to lay down any hard and fa t rule, for there have be n first-cla s jumpers of all hap , size , \ ights, and dim n ion . Byrd Page wa quite a littl bap, but springy a a t nnis ball, y t h clear d 6ft. 4in. . W. Taylor, ' h also 1 ar 6ft., i tall and tringy, as i P. L ahy, the best jump r Gr at Britain has v r produced, and who jumped 6ft. 4£in. in 1 98. G. L. Horine, who holds the world' record of 6ft. 7in., stands sft. nin. and weighs r62lb. II. F. Port r, winn r at the 19 8 Olympiad, tand 6ft. 2tin., v igh r8slb., and is beautifully proportion d. It would, th r f r , app ar that th high jump r should be tall and not too h avily built if he would attain to promin n but, quit apart fr m th qu tion f phy i al attribut , there mu t be that subtl "some– thing " - som tim all d "d vil," s m tim s "n rvous en rgy," but quit b y nd n ' p wer of cultivati n · so, if a man ha n t thi trang n rv f r e which nabl s him t do "a littl 1 it b tt r than hi b t" at a pin h, he will n v r make a r ally gr at high jump r. The n vice mu t al ha an unflagging tor of pati n e to nabl him to p r v r in r ally sci ntifi and m th di al study of th art. Only th who hav wat h d the Am ri~ans at practi e . an r ali h w perf et are th ir m thod , or how car fully a h Iittl m v m nt is b rv d and th r ason for it thought out and tra ed to it origin: if good, th m vem nt is n ourag d and d v 1 p d; if bad, th train r s to it that th athl t d s nothing a h day but pra ti until the fault is radi at d. In thi way the m ri an jumpers learn to hav absolute ontr 1 f the body while