Show APPLIED SCIENCE HAS MORE TO DO WITH BREAKING ATHLETIC RECORDS THAN PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT By Burris Burns NEW V TORK Feb 19 The The Increased application of scientific methods to to brought home modern sport was the spectators at the 1 games game the high Jumping or of the other night by Harold M f. Osborne of or the Illinois A A. A C- C C. C national pentathlon champion Osborne and Brown were fighting righting It out for fot first place Osborne missed atS at S 8 feet teet 6 5 Inches Brown cleared on his first attempt Then Osborne be became became became be- be came meticulously careful Standing In front of ot the tho crossbar he studied the height above him while the cro crowd d and waited Then Osborne leaned down moved the shoes shoe he e uses as n a. marker before the stan standards lards a a. fraction traction of ot an inch thinking thInk thInk- The rho crowd impatient hooted Ing Osborne was wan grandstanding Notwithstanding the razzing Osborne Osborne Osborne Os Os- borne carefully moved each of ot the other two shoes placed at measured intervale Inter- Inter vale al down his special runway runway-he he Jumps from the side aide in the Western roll roil method the method the same fraction of ot an n Inch Then he proceeded to clear the bar on his hili next Jump The crowd cheered for they rea realIzed real real- iced that Osborne had calculated his jumping lumping exactly He lie had used g geometry the the old hypotenuse ot of a a. triangle stuff Bluff of ot school days day If It the apex apes of or his Jumping angle angie didn't correspond with the Increased height of ot the bar Osborne Oborne simply Increased the base or ot othis his triangle and with the added running running running run run- ning power moving the other markers markers mark mark- ers era back he increased the length of ot his hili hypotenuse or rather the parabolic curve described by his body Scientific methods are breaking more speed records than the development of ot stronger physical specimens Benny Leanard i I. I li possibly a. a weaker man than Lew Yet iet by using his bin head Benny figured it out that the way for fora a a. right bander hander to combat s dangerous left lead was to uppercut with his right Bennys Benny's reasoning proved scientifically tI sound The knowledge that a race horse borse sometimes shuts off ft hi his hili wind with his tongue leads to tying down the tongue before a race This has been practised I for tor many years and It is said ald Is used I with Zev giving him more oxygen in itt his hili race Jenkins Jr Americans favor the arm swinging motion in all kinds of ot sprinting The I coaches here ha have ha e discovered that the rapid Jerking of or the arms fairly hurI hurtles hur hur- I ties the body through the air and adds add appreciably to speed peed All our track sprinters for this reason have well de developed developed developed de- de biceps and even long distance runners runne-rB are taught to use ule their arms as an aid to propulsion Our skating sprinters Moore and taught the Euro Europeans ans the trick of ot arm ann motion motion mo mo- mo- mo tion for tor sprint getaways In the recent Olympics The discovery discover of ot speed boats not only led to a a. aast vast ast Increase in water racing but the Idea Involved in is isnow now used by our best swimmers Duke and both of whom us use their broad ch chests ts as a a. plane and fairly skid over the water weter In the scientific studying of or boxing In recent years experts have been lieen able to distinguish between punches which apparently looked light yet knocked out the man and the tremendous walloping walloping wal wal- loping ma may drive the opponent clear across the ring or out of ot it It and yet which never c seems ems to too toc knock c out or r even to stun We mean the o fl shock 8 eo punch h. h as compared corn com I I pared with the push punch Th The I former Is short solid and accurate The latter though perhaps employing vastly vastly vastly vast vast- I I ly more strength Is not concentrated and Is so slow that the opponent can mOve ve with nith the blow I The reason that many of ot the old fights tights lasted HO so long was wan because the theold theold old fighters didn't know like Dempsey Dempse I the use of this paralyzing force fores Firpo didn't didn t know it It |