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Show I HORINE IS GREAT JUMPER. 1 Fn more ways than one George JTIorine. the oucg Lel.ind Stanford 'student who broke Mike Sweeney's long standing worid's record for the hlsh jump and became the most .talked of athlete of the vcar, is a remnrkable young man. "With practically prac-tically no " outside assistance he tnught himself to jump, evolved a style of Jumping all his own. used it and became tho greatest jumper of his time. He is one of the American i Olympic team now at Stockholm. i Be;o.p simn'i on the hnipul Wo-nno Wo-nno declared several easterners pin to bo greater lumoers than himself. He explained this by saying 'that their natural-spring is superior to his and that the only reason he is their master in the sport is his more 1 ef fectlvo style Horlne was born in San Diego. Cal.. ' 22 years ago. Until ho was 19 he never Indulged in athletics seriously. I although he had done some polo vaulting Then, on the eve of enter-I enter-I ing Stanford, he was suddenly filled I wUh an ambition to become a high 'jumper. ITe didn't know how profl-'cient profl-'cient he could become, but he was attracted at-tracted to the sport by its graceful, spectacular qualities. Ho liked to watch other youths Jump and thought he would like to jump himself. When he entered college he began to practice. Progress was slow for a I time, and then he decided he could I get along faster by studying style and deciding on the most effective method There were no really good jjumpero about, so he had to depend on the experiences of himself and his college mates. How well he profited pro-fited by his study, however, was apparent ap-parent last year, when he began to do belter than six feet In the first regular meet in which he participated he did ( feet 1-2 inch. The next time out he cleared 0 feet 1 5-S Inches. At the Olympic Iryouts he Increased his mark to G feet 7 inches Thcise steps in his career show his steady improement. That his Jumping Jump-ing has been consistent high is shown by the fact that in thirty-five out of forty-five meets he has cleared it least six feet. Horlne was asked to tell something i about his training system. It proved j simplicity Itself. The chief feature I of it is to avoid loo much- practice. |