Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

FIG. 33.-THE POLE-JUMP (No. I). P. O'Brien, Polytechnic Harriers, "Taking Off." 0'Brien has planted the pole well into the hole, and has got a good take~off from the right leg, and is getting his left leg up fairly well. His left hand is well placed, but hfs right should be almost touching, and just below it. As he has his hands arranged, the left one is doing all the work, and it will be impossible for him to get himself into the proper position to thrust the body up over the bar from the arms with the hands so far apart. FIG. 34 .-THE PoLE-JUMP (No. z). ~ O'Brieu has now begtm to turn the body; the left hand is on a level with the bar, and 1~ should be observed that had the hands been placed close together, by sliding the nght up the pole till it touched the left, just as lhe left hand came above the head p~eparatory to stabbing the point of the pole into the pit, he would have had no dtfficulty in negotiating the jump. no]