Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

30 SUCCESS IN ATHLETICS with apparently sprint-like strides. Hulford himself has studied the capabilities of all his opponents before he goes out upon the track-this is his strategy-and his tactics are so beautifully conceived and concealed as to be manifest only to the onlooker during the race. No runner in all distances has ever displayed greater artistic comprehension of how to manage a race than F. H. Hulford. In running left-hand courses-and most courses are left-handed except that of the 'Varsity Sports at Queen's Club, which is right-handed-where the in– clined plane is towards the inner margin of the track it will be evident that a greater strain is placed upon the left lower limb than that upon the right. It will be well, therefore, that the left lower limb should be cultured assiduously to withstand the extra work, and since most runners are right-handed a:nd consequently right-footed, the left leg is not originally so agile as the right, nor so well fitted by development to under– take the duties thrown upon it. In this connection the reader is asked to study carefully fig. 8, which shows the 400 metres race at Stockholm in 1912.