Show im r By De ii Editors Editor's note cots This Thia li Is the first of ofa ofa ofa a series of track and field articles written expressly for The Standard Examiner by Dean Cromwell nation ally Iy famous mentor MAKING OF OP A SPRINTER Track and field meets open with dashes Therefore let us start our study of ot the cinder game with the sprints We have ha heard much about the sprinting type tle This talk should never bother aspiring dashers dabers for there Is 10 1 and only t tt tt that one t t thing li Is speed In sprinting printing One ngn never that counts knows no i whether or not he possesses that speed peed i until he tries to run I IA A Rood good example of how the type theory does docs not hold true Is ts to be I found In the last lut I C tA meet Th The yard 20 deal was won b by Russell Ruell or of Cornell a tall slender olender printer lank lanky leg legs while hr he h yard luu-yard dash duh honors bonora were taken b by Bowman or of Syracuse as different In form from as could possibly be Bow Bowman man Is short shore set heavy and tock stocky stocky tt let et there was speed and power In th the legs of ot each aeh man re n and each a 8 champion Paddock the fastest human wa was of the Bowman type H I-fe I was only S 6 feet 8 t Inches but weighed pounds The development de of ot a sprinter Is ii as far from a set rule Some Sam runners can take to the th cinders and andIn andIn andIn In their first year ear startle the world while others othera must work for tor years ear It Is said uld that V W I Lee of oC the New NewYork NewYork York Athletic club who set et the th vogue of at the crouching start work work- worked worked worked ed fur for seven soven years ears with Ith the one aim of becoming a national champion Each ac year ear he ha failed ailed yet et each season he neared his mark and In 1814 1894 he h achieved his ambition running th hi century In The n next year a youth youth-a youth a a mere came kid came Into the limelight by beat beat- beatIng beating beat In Ing Lee in the Hie startling time of or 10 flat It was the first season eason of oC corn com competition com competition petition of or Bernie yet et he beat beata beA leat t ta a champion He lie was of ot the flash nuh type but held the championship In 1695 1896 1890 and 1897 1597 A sprinter must train to build his entire body as does dou a boxer for Forthe Forthe the semester before track competition competition tion a would would-bo dulman dash dul man should go 10 through a season of at preliminary work with no thought th of speed 1 Gym Gym- i i work on the apparatus and andi up setting exercises are splendid for Cor this up building process Of course coune If a track man has hu been In other other athletics during the fall semester h ho need not worry about his general con con- con condition Throughout this year half of work It Its Is s necessary that the sprinter printer don his hla spikes at least once or twice A week This training should consist or of loggIng for or no sprinter should hould get felInto Into dash condition on too short notice The Tho work mutt must come slowly as the legs lego have to be taught A novice should take care carl not to over over- overdo Overdo overdo do himself while on the track SHOES BIG ITEM One of the most Important Items In Inthe inthe inthe the success or failure of a coming sprinter Is the choice of shoes shan shoe They should bould be bo snug and fitted to the bare feet reet Of OC course no shoo shoe muSt mut bind the toes but It Is 10 lust jut 8 ax as Important that they should hould not be too 00 big bl It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is best not to work out at all If the tho shoes on hand are not snug If Ir I have conveyed the Idea that I In early carly season ason training distance run run- running running run running ning Is 10 Rood good to produce the needed i I stamina let me correct this Impre Impression don Ion sion No o sprinter should ever run I long on distances n to bl build lungs lune nII legs 1 and h heart for this ibis iS Is just Ju t as a likely I Ito to poll all sprinting form No o bit bit- yard yard ard man should hould ever ner Jog og more than 88 at t tn a time I Do n not tU overwork In athletics It ItI ItIs ItIs ItIs Is better to be under trained than trained traIned over This now flow brings brines th I athlete up to the point of or gathering speed peed I Tomorrow we will look loat at IL a afew afew few of ot the rules rulen which I used tomake tomake to tomake ILI I make Charlie Paddock laddock the greatest runner of all time lime |