The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-01
HOW TOJUMP WE'LL
Malcolm w. Ford Draws from
His Own Experience.
SOME DETAILS OF THE GAME.

Rules of the RunHins Broad Jump-Ths
Importance OF the "Take oR"-How to
Engineer Your Stride = The Standing
Jump-Jumping with Weights.
The art Of jumping to most people is diff
cult to understand. Jumpers vary so much
in build that it is useless to say that certain
athlete can spring well on account of having
longtlegs, or that some other one can spring
equally well because he is short, strong and
compaetly built Gymnastic instructors often
theorize on this subject, but my experience
has been that any reason given for certain
athletes excellence in jumping could be COM
pletely dispelled by aEalyZing the build Ct
some other equally good jumper. 1t is safe
to say that the secret of jumping is none
other than that attributed to nearly all ath-
letic games where activity is the predominant
ing feature. A wrestler before he can bring
about force sufficient TO put his antagonist
where he wants him must concentrate certain
muscles for an effort. Jumping requires the
same concentration, but it must be of quicker
action
There are many different kinds Of leaping,
but few men are good at more than one or
two styles. The reason for this is that there
is such diversity of action in the various
jumping events, and few styles Of jumping
will develop the muscles used in other styles.
Broad jumping, which means clearing dis
lance, is the easiest to understand, although
there are fewer good performers at it than
at high jumping. This is because of the diff
Guilty in practicing broad jumping, for be-
fore one can try, for instance, the running
broad jump level place, Is or 100 feet long,
must be found High jumping needs only a
space Of 80 or 40 feet and can be practiced in
Il gymnasium almost as well as out Of DOORS
1t is not SO with broad jumping, for TIE
athlete to have confidence must land in soft
dirt, and even though there are gYmnasiums
with clear space of 100 feet, box of dirt
for athletes to land in ten or fifteen feet long
and foot deep would take up too much
space and be too much of a general nuisance
to justify its presence. 1t can readily be seen
that when the facilities for practicing high
jumping are so much better than those given
for clearing distance, the latter game should
have fewer good performers, even though it
is q simpler exercise. Broad jumping, how
ever is more of a test of mans spring than
high jumping, for there is less science in it.
Running broad jumping consists simply Of
an athlete running up to a mark on the ground
and springing from one foot, landing in soft
dirt dug up for the purpose 50 that there will
be no injury caused by a jar from coming in
contact with hard ground. The athlete
gauges his run so that certain foot will al
ways be at the take off, which is the line
from where he springs. In this way the
necessary muscles viii be developed in the leg
used to spring with.
The only part in the jump that shows any
degree of science is in taking off properly
This means to get the foot on the line where
the measurement is made properly, so that no
distance viii be lost by taking off or stepping