Track Athletics in Detail (extract)

THE RUNNING BROAD JUMP 65 the take-off to his first mark, and then goes back a dozen strides farther. Lyons, whose jump is illus­ trated by the pictures on pages 66 and 67, goes back only eightstrides from the take-off forhis first mark, and about a hundred and five feet to the start of E. W. BI .OSS'S STYLE his run. Let us call, for convenience, the mark nearest the take-off the first mark, and the other the second mark. These have been laid out so that the jumper may feel certain that if his jump- ing-foot, whether it be the right or the left, strikes fairly upon the first it will also come squarelyupon the take-off, and the jump will be a good one. It sometimes happens in contests that the conditions