The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-07

Take sprinting, for instance, and it is
found that the best big men are no better
than plenty of comparatively little ones A
man ) feet or inches in height is called
man of short stature but in the illustration
''Sprinters of Short Stature" are two unusu-
ally short runners, both of whom have made
first rate records. At the right is the famous
professional Splinter, William Mills. His
height is only feet inches and he weighs
about 125 pounds. He is considered to be
about as good as 10 seconds for 100 yards.
and he makes his strides when sprinting more
rapidly than any one | have ever seen. 1t
seems remarkable that such short man
should be able to get over the ground so fast,
and the only explanation that can be made is
that he has unusual nerve force which ena-
bles him to stride with phenomenal rapidity.
When he is compared with Wendell Baker,
who Is @ feet high, and several other anna
teur runners who have done 100 yards in 10
seconds, one cannot fail to see how mysteri-
Gus the human frame is in its capabilities.
The general impression is that fast runners
are of the thin, stag like build, and that they
travel more with graceful, feeting motion
than by muscular effort. Tall men as rule do
run more gracefully than short ones, because
their strides are generally much longer and
they do not have to make them so rapidly as
do the short ones. 1t has often been said that
If some six foot sprinter could stride as rapid
ly as some mentioned short one, he would be
a world beaten, but at present such express
sions have not helped the long strider to
make his motions more quickly than his ner-
vous power will permit
The other figure of the illustration is W.
c. White, the well known sprinter, formerly
OF the Manhattan Athletic club, but now
of the New Yorks White is feet inches
high and weighs in condition about III
pounds He has run some remarkably fast
races, and yet his physique is hardly that of
q half grown boy. He runs with rather a
quick stride, but not so rapidly as Mills.
These two men, although very good exam
Piles of good sprinters of short stature. are
not the only examples that can be mentioned,
for Frank T. Richie, OF England, is a very
fast amateur, who stands only j feet inches
high, and yet weighs in athletic dress about
$50 pounds. He is considered as good rs 10
seconds for 100 yards, although he was beaten
by Fred Westing, the ex-champion 100 yard
runner, for the English 100 yard champion
chip in 1855, in 10 Is seconds.
Ncsting is another remarkable specimen of
a sprinter of short stature, for he stands but
feet Inches high, and weighs 125 pounds i'll
condition. When he returned to the United
States after his victorious visit to England,
he ran numerous fast races and ended I'D tbs
season by winning the 100 yard champion
ship of America aud Canada. defeating,
among Others, c. II Sheriff., who won tho
100 yard championship of the United States
the previous year, and Victor E. Schiller
stein, who few months previous had run
100 yards in 10 seconds. Both of these men
are many inches taller than Wrestling, but his
short, choppy, quick strides carried him along
faster than the more easy looking movements
of bis two celebrated ANTAGONISTS