The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-12
TIPS AND RAPS
 ON LIVE SPORTS

tN7 ITH the changes that have
 wv taken place in the style of
 hurdIing in last decade of more particularly in the last four or five years, there seems to have risen a condition whereby the big man has a tremendous advantage over his op- ponent This is best shown perhaps by the fact that the greatest exem- plifiers of the new style of clearing the hurdles, both high and low, are very big men.
 Bob Simpson, Earl Thompson Walker Smith, Fred Murray, Fred Kelly and Carl Johnson, six of the best murders of the last few years, are all big men. both as to height and to weight. One exception seems to be Carl Erdman of Princeton, the 1918 intercollegiate champion. and the records indicate that Erdman has not yet achieved the speed to make him quite the equal of any of the murders named, with the possible ex- ception of Smith. Furthermore, Erd- man is not strictly speaking a small man; he is of average size, and is well, although not heavily, built.
 To Alvin Kraenzlfen, twenty years
 
 college track and field athletes, goes the credit of being the first to dem onstrate that the new style of hurd ling namely that of clearing the barrier with a straight front leg rath- CT than the legs crossed beneath the body and Kraenzlien was and is a big man.
 Aleck Cop1and who was a champion in the late sos, has often been referred to as the man whose style in hurdling was closest to being perfect according to the old standard. Copland was a small man, slight of build but wiry and hard. These characteristics marked him when he was at the top of his form and they mark him today. But there was no man of Copland's Build who has achieved anything like the success under the new style that the old champion attained when the proper form called for crossing the legs and swinging the arms far and wide.
 Simpson's style is the style which it seems will be the model for all hurdlers for years to come It is one which seems to defy improvement be- cause every motion is perfectly CO., ordinated and there is no lost action of any kind. The front leg is straight in clearing the hurdle and the back leg is dragged over. not snapped over and bent. The arms work straight forward and back like the pistons of a locomotive. Every ounce of energy is devoted to driving the body forward and none Is lost in a stdewise motion that might tend to throw the hurdler off his balance or to retard his prog ress.
 Canadian swimming championships. which have been permitted to lapse since the beginning of the war, will be revived during the coming year. the first title events scheduled being the indoor fixtures which will be hefi in Montreal on October 24 and 9. The list includes 100, 40, and S80-yard swims, free style, 220-yard breast stroke and a 2O0-yard relay race. It may be that outdoor competition will be held for some of the open-water titles, but yet the National Anna teur Athletic Association has made no announcement concerning them. Youth had its way in the Can adian amateur Golf championship over the Lambton links last week, when w. J. McLuckie of the Kama wanki Golf Club won the title. Not since 1914 has the championship D been held, when George S. Lyon, eight times title holder, again show | ed the way. The "old man" was de- feated by a young Scot by the name of John Haddon, Toronto, up, in the third round this year. while C. | H. Turpin, a former champion, eHm- | ipmated Lyons son, Seymour, in the | fourth round after an extra hole had | been played Turpin and McLuckie clashed in the final round, the las, named winning by up and to | play.
 Mrs. George Harrison, one of the | few women golf professionals in this | country, expects to go to Chicago for
 a. short stay, to play over the link
 in that district. Mrs. Harrison h~ l conducted an indoor golf school ir l Cleveland for a number of years, her | last position as a pro" being with a
 country club at Meadsville, Pa. | It was announced recently by the | officials of the Massachusetts, Coli | Association that interstate compett- l tion would be resumed on July 26
 when the Bay State team Is sched.
 uled to meet Rhode Island at the
 wannamoisett Country Club The l
 Massachusetts at Brae Burn on Sep.
 te-nber 6, Francis Ouimet is captain
 Of the Bay State combination.
 Leo Diese1 of the Detroit Countr,
 Club recently won the Michigan ope1
 golf championship for the second
 time over the Saginaw Country Club
 He captured the title in 1916 with z
 seventy-two hole score of 301, ant
 this year made the four rounds 0,
 the course in 294. His scores were
 73, 76, 73 and 72. Par is 72. Diege
 learned the game as caddie
 The management of the Bridegpor
 City team will have to improve tf1ei
 team 200 per cent. if they enter tn
 National league as it is rumored tha
 they are to do.
 There are no changes in the Law.
 of the Game for next season and tn,
 same rules exist as have been in ex
 istence since before the start of tn |