Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

370 Track A tbletics former event he cleared the really unusual height of 5 feet Ii inches, in 1880, and in 188 1 he jumped IO feet 1 t inches in the standing broad. Of the club athletes, Malcolm Ford was one of the most successful performers at these events, and his IO feet 9i inches stood for a time as the amateur record for the horizontal distance. All of these records of the eighties were eclipsed by the performances of Ray C. Ewry of Purdue, who cleared 5 feet st inches at the Pan American games in 1901, and 11 feet 3 inches in the standing broad jump at Syracuse in 1900. The standing broad jump is probably the most search– ing test of a man's mere ability to spring, unaided by the "science " of any perfected style. The hop step and jump and its variations, such as the jump step and jump, is another of those events in which a great deal of interest was taken during the early nineties, but which has since gone out of vogue. E. B. Bloss's record of 48 feet 6 inches for the running hop step and jump, made in 1893, at Chicago, still stands. Ford and J.B. Connolly are others who used to excel at these somewhat artificial events. The running broad jump, like the running high jump, is one of those natural events which have been more or less consciously practised from the time the first prehistoric man took a flying leap over a prehistoric brook to escape the bill of the