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Show . EUHIE ans Seek to Avoid Mix-on Mix-on Running Events in Olympic Games. vnRK Dec. !0 Witlii" the lt ,.ks an exceedingly knotty f Tinted itlf to lhe He''?1'"1 15 mittee and incidentally this U been agitating the j JfL athletic sharps the world time. It relates- to the 'r-'Lii'.s tie sprint races, to be '"the Olvnipic games next rf "'ether the Belgians will pur-'' pur-'' -nod of their own or adhere to L4 down by the International 5 ,r Vll revert to the plan of . ; and infl'i't another """" ns on Hie competitors. ; """leiieJ to be in the Swedish r0,nvears uso still remember !' tiie start in the final ot , turned out to be. 5 i-M starts and a half hour of . lost on wnat could be dis-e dis-e 'fa few minutes, and even then vis a poor one lor Johnny 111 unnier bv no means left on his "vu did Alvah Meyer, who Li suffer from the mudd.e, :,;'nld Lippmeott. the third man. 'Saruices. the only contestant of the nerve-raokins !.,''eorce H. Patching, the Soutn A the only competitor In the ' i the Americans. When the did "set under way the Sprlns-n Sprlns-n befuddled that he scarcely ,;Xer or not he was going lor-,'Vmvanl. lor-,'Vmvanl. and. of course, as ,r..!lv be expected, brought up . rten iie hit the tape. ins play Safe. .-, Beialan athletic ofnciais nas as w send out -a series of !-"' startins and one of these ;;f:i.;ively that the Belgians are i-edv tne blunder ot the swedes ", e any mistake which might ri'i'tid to anv unpleasant after-:,.' after-:,.' ihe big meet. This question. Soil the New York Herald, is ',. sl.fest anv method to pre-. pre-. Va't at the coming Olympic 'you knw the tactics which are j are disgraceful, d a ru e be made which would - r man for a break? Q 'le'r-'resentative of any other jn of whose men had already '.-billed by further breaking, jv'tte said country ?" iavseem harsh rules, hut some-irin'fiit some-irin'fiit which may act as a de-wuid de-wuid be done to stop the 100-nm 100-nm degenerating into a farce: at ''am the starting is concerned. ' cf a sprinter Is an athlete i O'ld steady until the pistol is j(,n then jump Into his running. ; rrimarv object of the short i ;o unearth the best sprinter, a .id one need have no fear of a notions which can at all times i bad one from beating the gun. p there have been soma Isolated S:e mediocre sprinters corralled :;t-clas races by blunders on the starters and officials at the finish, the majority of the important t:e world, both amateur and pro-1. pro-1. te test man Invariably wow. A ;!? rules will remedy all possibil-i possibil-i man beating the gun, and not 2:. but such things as delays will ..lated as well as other minor h Rules Defective. t rule at the start could he as Full control of the competitors iriven to the starter, who shall i power to penalize for a break, to e men by a pistol shot In case he !;.e start is unfair, and to dis-a dis-a corr.petitor for unruly conduct ;art:r.g iine. The routine to be with regard to putting competi-their competi-their marks to be, 'on your get ready' and 'get set.' For up to 100 meters the penalty to reter, for races up to and Includ- meters to be two meters, for irs the penalty to be three meters, rrners it should be four meters, ai! races up to 1500 meters and tie penalty to be five meters, reaks at the start on the part of 'petiior to render him liabie to ;ca:ion." main offense against good start --ieipatirg the gun. two things to i tendency is the fear of a pen-1 pen-1 the recall. There was no spec-tin the Swedish rules to empower ier to recall the men once they r.i away, so to tease the starter :r child 's piay for the Ameri-had Ameri-had plenty of practice at the ''A one of the men was partieu- vd hy his trainer not to get ; mark. Consequently when any sprinters made a move to go '-A away, too. There was no " breaking, so his method was Mive and when the men did y on the ninth attemnt he was f"e the smoke left the barrel of and into his full stride much -'an any of his rivals. Promotion of athletic meetings r,aye not changed the method rf. which has made athletes so tr.at tnere is not a sprinter In i' day who can hold his mark for a couple of seconds, and the - wsa shown last summer, when ot Swede., visited the English An athlete named Engdahl nope for the sprints, but he ran e with a starter who held the "M steady on their marks. Rules Prevail. ;1 and advised Engdahl to hold "7. , lne Swede became so un-naving un-naving to stick In his hole , s. easily beaten bv Hill, who V," T y ln 10 seconc'n flat, which aa.r"p climate like England raie pier6 of movlnit. Now w, askM. what wllV the rule '"v B'nians draft a hard :irn ' tne one suggested in r even should thev stick 'mini .i IlUernational Fcdera-- Fcdera-- ,'he starting of all races? -.an countries holding the -, 1 enfrce their own rules i'M ifT,5' an1 nobody will blame a if thev should nut their Ideas '"to execution. When the En-,i; En-,i; V"'M at London In 190 prints pe"altv rule for breaking s. nd when the big affair Louis in 1901 the laws of 're n",evp,,t lnt0 pffect and the 'o ti. lamctl very much for 'Id Li hx;-liiws In 1915. The i that the Swedes were ai, iL''ame to running the t'oev wsro 't not for the '-i thrri Slstert ln s,";h items as ' nkTl f "'eights and jav-' jav-' or m,f noe he considered the fl't&12 sport wllPn thev n P oe,d f things :ib. ra"1 'hev or.lv exhibited or th'" eritlcal acumen, for iFosea' .""-country race, onlv orn?t'lt,n8. such as nm-' nm-' s'erf"o la l0" ,anrl a "hUnrl" iI!Jsdom in athletics. |