Why? The Science of Athletics

362 WHY?-THE SCIENCE OF ATHLETICS I would keep him going. He would stay out there an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Of course, I had to watch his meals and everything like that. That is an easy matter up there, for these boys have a certain diet. We worked along on those lines. When we got out there he drew the champion in his heat. I told him before going out there, 'If you are lucky enough to get the champion in the heat, you will beat him.' I said, 'If you lick him in the trial; you will lick him in the final. Go to your first hurdle fast.' He ran around there, and beat this fellow in the heat. As he was coming home this fellow looked around to see if there was anybody near him. "The second was Beatty, of Michigan. He won the Juniors the day before, and broke the world's record practically, John Gibson's record, but he knocked down the first hurdle, and they could not give it to him, but the time was there just the same. He didn't do it in the time that Burke did by a second, so I said to. Burke, 'Now, while you are standing here, we will have this argument out, and then you shall go inside. Think this thing over. You have the champion beaten. He came in second to you in the heat, so you already have him licked. Now as to Beatty, he has run two races. He ran two races the day before you, a one-quarter mile and a three-quarter mile. He is going to feel what he did the day before, so you have him licked. There is no reason why you can't win this thing. Remember that one man has run three races, while you have run but one. He is coming back, and he is running a full mile, and you are only going to run a half mile. There is only one thing for you to do, and that is to go over there and draw the pole, and you can see all these men out in front of you. Take the last two hurdlt.~s fast.' "We went out there, and as things happened he drew the pole. He got very well away with a nice start. He got over the first hurdle, ran all the way. They stayed with him. He won by about four or five yards. The