Show p. p f JJ w.- w. I 4 f t i D' D 11 ti Jf C f 1 7 I J I i IA i t j i f lj I OHIO OH STATE COACH REASONS REASONS- J j Danger Marks Marks' Peril Track Record By JERRY BRONDFIELD NEA Service Correspondent COLUMBUS Ohio July 9 Larry 9 Larry Snyder Ohio State track coach takes pencil in hand does a a. little figuring and comes up with what he calls danger marks for track and field events Once attained by an an athlete these figures Indicate that on a a given day under certain conditions the athlete is capable of breaking the world record In his particular event As an example In his argument Snyder uses that day in May 1935 when Jesse Owens cracked three world marks and tied another at Ann Arbor Jesse was in perfect form that day sa says s 's the Buckeye coach The wind the sun the humidity were right And because he was capable of attaining the proper danger marks in each event he proceeded to g go out and break the records Any ZAny athlete can duplicate Jesses Jesse's marks marks even even better them them them-If if he comes up to his danger marks in good shape Snyder continues Many stars hit these marks often olten during their careers but only on the right day can they go beyond tha that t. t Here are Snyders Snyder's danger marks with world records in parentheses One yard hundred dash 96 94 yard dash 21 yard dash high hurdles low hurdles high jump 6 feet 6 inches 9 6 two-mile two run pole vault 13 feet 6 inches 15 1 Vs broad jump 25 feet 8 26 javelin javelin jave jave- lin un feet 4 42 discus feet 6 shot put 50 feet Good Sprint Hope These figures represent a great effort and probably would win 99 out of dual meets It is reasonable reasonable reasonable reason reason- able to expect that a crack sprinter who has bettered 96 might some someday someday someday day leave his blocks with the gun get a good leg drive in the first 15 y yArds ards and then hit the full extent of f his natural speed and rhythm In n the stretch If H as Snyder points out this is his day ay with the right meteorological conditions and a good field push- push pushing in ing ng him he might tack up 93 Harold Davis the Salinas junior college ollege freshman who came out of nowhere last week to win the national national na- na lonal A. A A. A U. U and ad meter w Jesse Owens His coach says this star was just right righton on the day he cracked three world records crowns has been clocked unofficially daily in 94 and has just started a career which has a good four years remaining Coast critics be- be he is the man t t. t to anyone will In this t do generallo A few lew years agO ton California what he believed mentor figures of f human were th tilt Ul t events from the endeavor I t Sprinta t through rough longer d distance r runa 91 Tops Top for Dash Dah His ultimate te f for tt the For the mile it wa was I would preclude the four flat Four ot of li tf called human I 5 have been broken He said no vault beyond one 15 would fUl e I teet Leet 8 of an Inch 7 ar sailed 15 LM t feet Hamilton UV i 1 Jn figure 57 teet J inches was the lI limit lt put and Jack T Torrance for hf lb 11 57 feet 1 hea t inch a few years years' I Big Al Blozis of his eye set r on op 60 feet says he wont won't do it an n II I Limit for I meter but Archie ft t off unofficially h In a Grover Klemmer 14 jo I Ca man is expected to hS Hamilton nu set the h 11 I ing at 6 feet 11 and Les Steers of the o that tion a couple unofficially of Professor ig Iro Hami Hamilton didn't have apPt low man enough 11 f faith In |