Scientific Athletics

e sed of mu h vitality, has favourable oppor– f lowering athletic records. On of the mo t triking xamples that may be quoted to prov thi fact is that alr ady an athlete of about 5 ft. 5 in. and 10 2 ton in weight, ha thrown a 17 lb. mi il ov r 100 ft. This honld entirely confut any mi giving which men of imilar proportion may have in regard to sup– po ed impos ibilitie , tc., although it mu t b owned th ir pro p cts cannot be so stabl as they otherwis might be. The following table depict some po ibilitie , and it i empha ised that th e ar not impo ibilities, because most of them hav been alr ady qualled :- Height. Weight. Hammer. Distance. hot. Distance. ft. in. t. lbs. ft. lbs. ft. 6 0 H 16 125 16 50 22 105 22 42 5 10 13 16 120 16 ..J.8 22 100 22 ..J.0 5 12 16 115 16 46 22 93 22 38 5 6 11 16 112 16 -14 22 88 22 36 5 5 10~ 16 110 16 ..J.2 22 85 22 35 In the light-w ight clivi ion of athl tic , unu ual height and ,vcight arc in ential, for many renowned 1 aper and runn r ar , and have b en, of hort tatur('. It may b rationally uppo. eel. how ver, that un- ommon height i ad antag ou in both instan : in th form r, b cau a tall man would naturally leap higher than coul l a much hort 'r one, provicl cl both po s cl an qual d gr of natural s1 ring ; and to th latt r, b 'ans th strid would 1e e.. entiall r at 'r when properly cultivat cl. '1