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Show GROUCH START IN ATHLETICS jrA.VT old timers say Lon Myers was H the first man in America to usf H the crouch start An old friend of H Lon said recently that while prRC- H tltjmg one day on the old Manhattan H A C. grounds, New York. Lon, to ' handicap himself, got down on all fours ' jJ and permitted tho other runners to H start from the then customary upright H posture. None of the old Unions H thought the crouch start ever would H enable a runner to get away from his H mark faster than from an upright pos- H So much' has been written In rela- H Hon to the crouch start that Mike iil Murphy recently was asked by James I'll E Sullivan to shed a little light on the jH subject. The following announcement H was made recently from Sullivan s ( office M "Mlko Muiphy says the first time he M ever saw the crouch start used was by , M Charles Shcrrlll in CcdarhursL Mr H Murphy also says he used the crouch H start in 1SS1 in a professional race, and H no one seemed to care for It except H himself He used tho crouch start in M Philadelphia In 18S.1 H " "When George Turner told mo to tt start that way I told him to stop his M fooling.' says Murphy, who also sas l that in 1SS1 there was a match race in M which he agreed to allow the other M contestants to start in the regular way, M ho to start from all fours. Profession- M als never took to the crouch start and H did not like it, but Sherrill did. He H always started in amateur races with H that style." lM |