The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
ATHLETIC EVENTS
Of RARE PROMISE
ARE SCHE EDULED
Friends of Noted Jumper
Are Wondering if He Can
Again Reach His Great
World Record
BY WILLIAM UNMACK

| 1t Is a question that has been asked
| over and over again, and his leap of
| an even six feet, last Sunday. in the
i Original Gaelic club games at Shell
/ Mound. is only part proof that the
| great jumper still has some jumping
| left in him.
In the writer's opinion, HORNE could
come back under certain conditions,
but under the present conditions that
he has to contend with it is hardly
likely that he will ever be able to
again reach his world record of
| feet inches.
/ The one great drawback that Ho-s
! rine now has to contend with Is being
on his feet all day long, with very
/ little chance of being able to sit down
and rest in the same way that he
could while at college, when he made
/ his wonderful jumps.
It is different proposition to be
university student with nothing but
/ the studying to look after, and to being
| a full ffedged salesman, which takes
him from one end of the bay to the
other, and besides this, having of
necessity to tend trade in a sporting
goods store, showing this and that,
/ and all the time being on his feet.
This necessarily must react on the
1 muscles which form so important a
part Of high jumping. and particularly
| does it affect the arch of the foot and
| the ankle, wherein the secret of Ho-
rine's success depends.
HORNE CONFIDENT
HORNE himself believes that if he
| had the same conditions which were
| his while at the Stanford university
| that he could, with a good seasons
/ training, get back to his old form, and
/ 1..A
der such conditions he could break
| his own worlds record This seems
feasible. and those who saw his form
and wonderful spring last Sunday are
/ willing to agree with him.
His jumping last Sunday was reve-
lation. considering that he has been
| out OF competition for many months,
| and went into the meet with only
| little preliminary indoor gymnasium
work which he went through in the
/ Olympic club. Not once did he have
/ an opportunity to work out on a
proper outdoor jump. so that his leap
shows that he could, if he had the
opportunity, do some good jumping
/ again.
The jumping last week must be taken
1 more seriously than the height of six
/ feet implies. The take off and run
| way was perhaps the worst that Ho-E
| rine has ever tried to jump from. The
| take off itself was loose, lacking of
! proper resistance. and the top dress
| ing crumbled under his weight. Under
| the conditions. the jump was equal to
! at the very least full inch more than
the six feet credited to him. and per-
/ haps more than that.
SYSTEMATIC TRAINING
| With view of trying to get up near
his worlds record for the big Por-
! tola championship meet HORNE has
I ST rtad SvStepY tic training method
| His leap last week has encouraged the
| lad, and even under the adverse cir
| cumstances that he has to contend with
| he feels sure that If he can not get up
to his worlds record that by October
he will be able to do better than feet
| 4 inches.
For the next month HORNE will do
no other training than gymnastic work.
and after that he will start regular
work at the jumping pits. He intends
to work up by degrees, and everything
points to his doing something sensa-
| tional next October
HINT FOR PORTOLA
Next month a big athletic meet is
| to be held in New York. AS a special
inducement to athletes to break worlds
| records, special prizes to the value of
/ $100 have been offered This In adoi-
tion to the regular first place prize.
To put up such large prizes special dis
pensation has to be given by the ANA
/ teur Athletic union.
Local athletes are never given enough
encouragement nor are they ever given
such an opportunity to work for such
prize as the New York people have
put up in the Greater New York fair
/ and exposition games.
| The Portola athletic meet will with
out doubt be the most wonderful games
pulled off on this coast for many a
moon. The best athletes on the coast
will be In San Francisco to compete
in the Portola games and 1t is reason
able to suppose that in some events
there will be men who can come some
where near world record performances.
If such an inducement as a special 500
prize were offered to any athlete
| breaking a worlds record 1t would un-
doubtedly stimulate interest in the
events among the athletes themselves,
and would be a big incentive to the
men entered to hang up new marks
in the various events.
1t is an easy matter to get special
permission from the A. A. u. to allow
the extra prize to be offered, and 1t
might be worth while for the Portola
committee to look into the matter.
HIGH CLASS COMPETITION
With the Pacific association cham
pionships at the university oval on
September and the Portola games the
following month. local athletes will
have plenty of high class competition.
The p. A. A. games are improving every
year and this year promises to be a
banner year in the matter OF compe-
tition and good performances.
Secretary Herbert Hauser of the Pa
cific association, is chairman of the
Native Sons athletic committee, which
has been granted the sanction for the
Holding of the big games on September
| 9, and preliminary arrangements are
| now under way for the athletic meet
| Hauser has secured permission from
| the University of California authorities
| to hold the games at the University
| oval, in Berkeley, and entry blanks
| for the meet will be issued in a few
| days.
The program will be the regular
| championship one. and an open relay
| race will be an added feature, though
| no points will be counted in this in
| deciding the team winner OF the meet