The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-26
Aviation Boys .AtYoIeChaIk
 Up 2 Records

New Haven, June 26-TWo new athletic records have been set by Aviation Cadets at the Army Air Forces Technical Training Con- mand School at Yale University in the course of the TIC Schools reg ular physical training program, it was announced here today by Lt Tom Paski, physical training direc- tor.
 A new mark for the 300 yard run was hung up by Aviation Cadet Cleon L. Smith of Flint, Mich. He covered the 300 yards on the inn provised indoor oval in Yale's Payne Whitney gum in 36 seconds. Pre- vious record for the run was 37. It Paski stated that the run record was set by Smith while wearing sneak CTS, not regulation track shoes and the improvisation of the track made the run more difficult The track is laid out in the areaWay at the top of the deck of seats circling the gyms huge exhibition swimming pool.
 Smith, 1922 chemical engineer ing graduate of Michigan State Uni versity, was former track stalWart on the Lansing team. He ran the 440 and set new indoor records for the 300 while a varsity trackman at the university. He first set a uni versity mark of 328 on the regula- ton clay track, using spiked run ming shoes, and later cut the mark down to 32.7 A cross country run ner, and broad and high jumper in college, he also ran the three mile even in high school Of his mark set in the Yale gym, he said, the turns were hard to make but good traction on the floor made up for part of the Improvisation. T still think I can do a little better than a straight 36 and would like to get another try at it." he stated.
 Second record mark was set on the chinning bar by Aviation Cadet Frank E. Torres, Medford, Mass who raised and lowered himself 26 consecutive times on the horizontal bar setting an all-time school for Chin-ups. The previous mark was 25
 The ITO pound Cadet was a for mer YMCA gymnast, It. Paski eX- planted that the mark is especially good since 1t was done with a palms out" grip instead of the easier, more conventional method of gripping the chinning bar with the palms of the hands facing the man He explained that the palms out teachnique, although more difficult is used since it brings more muscles into play and is more direct in its conditioning affects. It gives almost the same type of exercise the men would get if they were sliding down ropes from a torpedoed ship, ol crossing a stream hand over hand on a rope fin theater of operations
 Scoring the 26 mark on an initial physical test, Torres said he is going to raise the mark to more than 40 as soon as he gets fully conditioned for the tougher mark. The regular physical training program at this technical training command school stresses conditioning of the upper trunk, chest and arm muscles, the training director stated, but Torres plans to get in few extra sessions to put these muscles, which are mainly used in the chin-up, in rec ord-Setting shape.
 The standard set for aviation cadets on the chin-up test is 10.
 Torres, a former Northeastern University mechanical engineering student at Boston, is training to be- come an aircraft maintenance en- gineering officer, in the Army Air Forces. Holder of the Hayden schol- arship while at Northeastern, Tor res also is skilled on the parallel, low and high bars. He says he took up gymnastics to keep himself oc- cupied.