College athletics . there have been some very fast half-milerswho were small men. Valentine, of the New York Athletic Club,who did I minute 57 3-5 seconds at the Canadian championshipsin 1905, is short and stocky. Downs, the old Harvard championof the early nineties, who had so many exciting races with hisfamous Princeton rival, Dohm, was small. But our best half-milers have been men like Kilpatrick, tall, long and easy striding,speedy, and with plenty of stay. Cregan, Burke and Hollisterwere men of this type. As for the quarter, there are two kinds of runners for thisdistance—those who lack s
College athletics . there have been some very fast half-milerswho were small men. Valentine, of the New York Athletic Club,who did I minute 57 3-5 seconds at the Canadian championshipsin 1905, is short and stocky. Downs, the old Harvard championof the early nineties, who had so many exciting races with hisfamous Princeton rival, Dohm, was small. But our best half-milers have been men like Kilpatrick, tall, long and easy striding,speedy, and with plenty of stay. Cregan, Burke and Hollisterwere men of this type. As for the quarter, there are two kinds of runners for thisdistance—those who lack stay, but have speed, and those withplenty of stay but little speed. The runner lacking in stay shouldrun over the distance, going frequent 1,000 yards, and occasionallythree-quarter miles and miles. The other type of athlete shoulddo most of his training at distances less than the half. All half-milers should not forget to do some quarter-mile running andsome sprinting to keep them speedy. Perhaps the most useful.
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