Show r I TS Is THERE a limit to speed for tor aman aman a 1 man or a horse horae Can the th human or the equine frame carry just jutt so ao much drive before It starts to crack We put this query to Hirsch Jacobs JacobI one of the finest conditioners condition era ers In any sport one of the best horse horae trainers of any given liven decode To set let a record Jacobs said one on must have a fast track That bat means mean a hard track Set Setting tin records on Oft ona ona M a fast tast track tuck is dangerous It has wrecked man many fine 7 horses honel I 1 would t tt say there is a limit t to how how fast fut a above horse hone can run before he be cracks up Especially Espe Espe- If h be Is II after m records over a sa hard hord tt fast track This Thus reminded Grantland Rice me of a story that Charley Paddock once told I Just at the time the Worlds World's Fastest Human said I was Will at my m peak I 1 had Just lust tied the worlds world's record at 9 g 3 S I 1 knew I could do better I was Will set that day at Los Lo Angeles in a Southern rn California meet I broke in front I was flyIng fly fly- yIng y- y Ing lug at the 50 Around the yard 80 mark I knew I was headed for at least lead leasta leada a 91 for the yards ards I knew the tho record was mine Then Theu the calves of both legs 1811 began beran to shiver I felt feU all aU my leg leI muscles mus mUll des cles pulling apart The thought suddenly Lit hit me that thai I was wal on my wa way to being a cripple I felt my legs were breaking up op over this hard bard tact fat trick track tr tek I pulled up and up-and and still IUD finished In hi InD 9 D 3 I couldn't run again for weeks The calves of both legs leil were extremely extremely ex ex- sore and strained d. d And dont don't forget that Paddock had two of the strongest looking legs anyone ever saw on a track star Limit on Speed I 1 realized then Paddock told me that as we are developed today today to to- day w we are capable of handling handline only so much speed I mean our muscles and our ligaments la Is the course of evolution and development develop develop- ment meat someone will run the yards In 9 fiat flat But Dut not now Th This was proved when Mel Met Patton Pat- Pat Patton Patton ton ran yards in hi 93 and wound up later with cramps Patton was waa moving Into the danger zone due entirely to excessive speed over a ahard ahard ahard hard fast fut track lie He was Wal finding out what Paddock had discovered years before How lIow does doe this thU sound sound I asked Jacobs Jac bl It U sounds per pcr cent sensible Jacobs said Bald You Yon cant can't drive either horses bones or humans over fast bard hard tracks Into records record without payIng pay pay- payIng Ing the penalty Which Is J. a breakdown What do the owners owners own own- ers era want want want-a a record or a sound lound horse borseT Jacobs claimed Stymie for something something some some- thing like 1500 and turned him probability into a million dollar The racing game iame Is II packed with fine trainers We could start with Ben and Jimmy Timm Jones We could couleS bring brine you Maxie Maxle Hirsch certainly ly lyone one of the greatest We could call tali on Sunny Jim 11 who knows horses better than horses know themselves A great trainer There is Ii Honest John Partridge who has been a afine afine afine fine trainer for tor 50 60 years Most of ol these thele are veterans Den Ben Jones Jonel Fitzsimmons Hirsch John Partridge Part Part- ridge able ridge able smart can take you than you can caD back more years remember Y Young Trainers Are Good There bere are any number ot of younger trainers on the JohnnY job Job Johnny Gaver Gayer C C. 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E Veitch of Whitney one of the best beat and sev- sev eral cral more But Dut I 1 also like the training methods of ot Jacobs Jacobi who wins wInt his hi share of races race without any or investments enta in young talent Con COD Jac Jacobs is a condition man to me means so 10 much more than anything else A champion man things thines But nut above must have ave many all h he must have condition Joe Louis had little condition In either cither his first tint or second Joe Walcott fight tight Walcott kept in condition But he be was a second rate fighter As AI a result Louis rated one of the best belt of all taU the heavyweights bU was Wal far hr behind Walcott after aller 25 23 consecutive conse rounds round When Loins Louii legs leis begin began to put on weight you knew what happened He lie was wu far tar over the top Condition Jacobs Jacobi tells teU me a matter of f pigeons boric horaM er r human buman beings Ive I've trained rained pi sad and horses bonee Human kin beings would be h. Just the same ame What at are the th main qualities I 1 asked Too roe many things thin Jacobs said ald The The ne amount of ot work the they need rued Food Rest Rut Ill I'll take up horses horse bor watch the You watch a horse horae You wa way h ho b. runs runt He lie may rna be ove over overworked worked He Ue may ms need Deed more work These The ar are the things thing to look for lor forNo No No one U tI ever quite quit Jacobs Jacobi said raid d I 1 mean a human hum being bein pigeon or Of horse horn Each e. e ease Individual atten alien must b be accorded tion It |