Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

MANAGEMENT OF A MEETING 233 who is leading, and the distance he has thrown. The information should also be recorded on the revolving notice-board. For the jumps other apparatus is required. The high and · pole-jump standards should be provided with two small frames one above the other; in the upper one is inserted the number of the corn~ petitor jumping, and in the lower one the height at which the bar is standing. Beside the pit for the hop, step, andjump, and long– jump, shoul.d be placed a small revolving telegraph– board with a frame at the side in which the jumper's number is inserted, and on which is recorded the distance jumped directly it has been measured. Mr. J. M. Andrews, Hon. Sec. of the Polytechnic Harriers, has invented a most excellent device for keeping the spectators informed of what is going on. It consists of a long board on edge, supported on four legs ; this board is divided into feet ~nd inches, and above each division is a slot into which the com– petitor's number is insert'ed after each throw or jump, so that the exact distance thrown or jumped, or the height cleared by each competitor, is visible through~ out the progress of the event. Care should be taken that the Press are so placed that the reporters can see everything which occurs, and they should receive every assistance from the Press steward. It is important that the seating accommodation in the stands should be made as comfortable as possible. At most of our English athletic grounds it is wretched to a degree. The competitors' dressing-rooms should be large and airy, and fitted up with massage tables and baths,