Show tc Driving i Choose Your Style hj FRANK K I. BAKER BAKER- When Walter Marty Jumped high 6 feet 8 inches recently at the N. N Y A. A O. O indoor meet he reopened an ancient argument on high high- jum Jumping ing style that's about as unanswerable as the one about the overlapping overlappIng overlapping over over- lapping and interlocking grips In golf golt Mt It Marty i is an exponent of the so called western roll in which the Jumper throws himself Into a horizontal position and rolls over the bar His victory has given man many Pacific coast enthusiasts a chance to shout I X told you ou co tso with an outburst long silenced by the successes of George Spitz the eastern star with his scissors system The roll roU Is used almost exclusively at Southern California Washington and Stanford and predominates at California Rocky Mountain schools have not been en so particular about style of oC Utah for lor example ignores s both the roll and the scissors and Just hops bops over o the bar on a run from the right side B. B Y U. U Us U.'s Brady comes nearer emulating the roll rol in his Ills Jumping from the left side of the standard but ev even n he has a style that's more his own than of ot anybody else Still these boys do o pretty well with u their styled self system both getting better than 6 feet 3 inches In this rarified mountain atmosphere Not All Great Stars Adhere to Accepted Style We Ve pay a lot of ot attention t to style form and and it do does s count a lot but In the final analysis there are those rare exceptions who make apparent ap ap- apparent ap- ap parent arent faults pay big dividends The critics who first saw Al Simmons step away from the plate de decided decided decided de- de he wouldn't last In the big leagues He steps in the bucket and no man can hit consistently and be so unorthodox it was said but bitt folks have practically forgotten all abo about t that fault now Certainly no one has the nerve to say Al Simmons cant can't hit Then theres there's Vivian McGrath the rising tennis star from Australia No different from any player McGrath had trouble with his backhand so EO he experimented with a Do stroke using both boU hands on the racquet Hes He's becoming proficient at the style and is expected t to rise to international international Importance before hes he's through Even now theres there's a young Italian of less fame than McGrath who is experimenting still further with his backhand problems The Italian Is ambidextrous an and hopes to develop a a. a st style le oz Ot on which he simply changes hands with the racquet for his different strokes It ma may be beall benIl till nIl right If it the player doesn't drop the Ule racquet on one of those split split- second shifts It all goes to prove that there here can be exceptions that perhaps Martys Marty's success doesn't exactly mean there isn't another style equally as good as his roll Spitz pro proved by his foot 6 inch 8 leaps that there is ilo no need of scrapping the thc scissors style It seems to me that J the main idea is to get over the bar without brushing it off oft the standards and so long Iong as an athlete can do that I d dont don't nt care whether he goes over it upright or horizontal Charges Often Made lade That Roll RoIl RollIn RollIn In Reality Is a Dive Coast pride prid in the development of the western roll dates back to toI toa I a 1913 wh when n George Horine of Stanford and Eddie of California engaged in a titanic duel both helping to originate this Jump high form Beesons Beeson's record stood until 1924 when Harold Osborn Osbon of the Illinois Athletic club using the same form raised it to 8 6 6 U. U There it stood until Marty another disciple of the roll boosted it to 8 6 6 H In outdoor competition and put in his lila recent claim for the indoor mark at nt 8 6 6 The roll roil encountered some opposition on the claim that the Jumper I was diving instead of leaping over the bar Babe Babe the mannish feminine athlete from Texas was ruled out of the Olympic event on that ground The jumpers must get their feet over the bar first Beyond that the roll looks as good as the scissors all right |