Show Athletes Need Much r I Sleep While Training 9 I i Plenty Plent of sleep plays a big part In inthe f the tho training of most of the success successful ful athletes of or today toda While some somo few fow of the great groat performers wo we see sea com corn competing In tho the different events Monts get fiot along Iong with a short allowance of slum ium slumber I her ber it II Is clearly el arl noticeable that thal the ones who Insist on spending a good goodly I ly I part of their time In the feathers 1 i ure itro re In tho the large majority Sleep hUH has more moie to do with the showing the time men nien I make than anything else Thero rh ro is I Ino r no ride nile governing what the men muon shall shah I Icat eat cat each roan man using Illin his own judgment jud hut but with sleep every trainer I on an his men getting u II faull portion of that Jumpers especially benefit by 11 long bug r r sessions of slumber It IK Is a scientific Tact fact Unit that a man lengthens en or grows by 11 staying slaying in bod bed A l boy hoy oy lying In bod bed with typhoid fever has haB boon b o 1 known to add six Inches to his hIli height In a few weeks weel s Jumpers find that thaL tho time In the knees and the time cush cusit cushions cushions ions of the heels expand and become moro mora springy If ii given sen a long lon rest Thoy They take advantage of ot every r op opportunity opportunity to take tako tho the weight off ocr their feet i Ray Hay Ha Ewry wry and Myer tho time greatest Jumpers we have hav both long ago 10 formed the habit of or putting their 1 feet at an elevation Whenever the chance offered Both aro are men inca who Insist on having an nn abundance of sleep The night before betow was to jump In tile the championships at Ath Athens ens enu he Ji wont to bed betl at C G For several hours hourI ho kept moving his legs es beneath the time quilts with time Iho object In Inlew view lew of keeping them thorn limber without putting his 1111 weight upon tho th cartilage pads of or tho the knees When bon Mike Niko established a new worlds record for the high Jump It was said that he h had been ben In bed r for three days just taking things easy ens Dan Ahearn Is Iii another Jumper who I I II i believes In Jut always getting all nh the sleep possible while Martin Sheridan I who Js Is also a crack at the hop hOI step and antI Jump did 17 J feet after being forced by b Trainer Lawson Robertson to lo lake taken a 11 nap Sheridan and Sheppard both get got along lon without more than a few hours hour of or sloop sinop Sheridan goes for days with only a n couple coule of or hours rest st at night making up ul for lost host time by b putting In fifteen to lo twenty hours straight It Is a wonderful timing thing the way time greatest athlete in tho the world gets get along so well with such Buch litter Ir Irregularity irregularity regularity of sleeping hours John goes to bed bail early carl carland and tails falls to rise before noon on time the day of a trial at his Ilia lui worlds ham baum hammer mol mer throwing records Ralph Rose ROBe tho California shot putter lived so long bug III in the thu balmy climate of the Napa foothills that he lie formed the tho habit of long siestas during luring his kid days da Ar Arthur Arthur Arthur thur DulIe Duffo and Harry Barr l both hoth believed strongly In sleep aleo Before over evorT race It was tho the regular thing timing for to lo take a nap Hillman on the other ether hand would rest reat up during durin the Iho afternoon before competing In the armories at al night Harry Hay Haywood wood moed to lo New NewYork NewYOrk NewYork York from Now New Jersey Jerse because he lie found that thai the trip at night deprived him of several hours In bed h d lives on Staten Island It Is notice noticeable noticeable able that ho doeR docs not nol attend many man of time the night meets here unless competing com pol lug ing He lie says a M t that at it Il is I a u waste of time limo when whon he lie II should be bg b tucked away avay awa under the Iho blankets |