Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

CHAPTER XXIV THE CAMERA AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH IN RELATION TO ATHLETICS IN England, no matter how good a thing may be, we never seem to take it up until all the peoples of the world have had the use of it for years ! So far as America, at all events, is concerned, the coming of rapid photography, and later the cinemato– graph, marked a distinctly new epoch in the history of athletics, for by the aid of the-- camera all the multitudinous events which go to make up an athletic sports programme were raised to the level of exact sciences. All those infinitesimal details of style and movement at which the trainer had guessed, and the significance of which dawned half-understood in his brain without his having the means of confirming or enlarging his ideas, have now been proved. With the coming of rapid– motion photography,doubt has been turned to certainty, and the tiniest detail revealed. Needless to say, the astute Americans realised the possibility, latent in the lens; that they have made full use of the invention, and also the cinematograph, one can see by referring to the World's Records which they hold. For the purpose of studying athletics and devising IS ~~