Athletics and football . ng, Kemp, who was a light-weight,w^iry, and of more than medium height, beat Baddeley by a fewinches, winning with 22 ft. 2| in. Kemp was, we think, not quiteso good, but more certain than his opponent, and always jumpedwith great coolness and judgment, never failing when fit to geta. good jerk in mid-air and fling his legs well out in front of the championship meeting, in the same year, Baddeleyturned the tables on his opponent, winning with the fine jump of JUMPING, WEIGHT-PUTTING, ETC. 153 22 ft. 8 in. on perfectly level ground. Baddeley was a very tall,heavy
Athletics and football . ng, Kemp, who was a light-weight,w^iry, and of more than medium height, beat Baddeley by a fewinches, winning with 22 ft. 2| in. Kemp was, we think, not quiteso good, but more certain than his opponent, and always jumpedwith great coolness and judgment, never failing when fit to geta. good jerk in mid-air and fling his legs well out in front of the championship meeting, in the same year, Baddeleyturned the tables on his opponent, winning with the fine jump of JUMPING, WEIGHT-PUTTING, ETC. 153 22 ft. 8 in. on perfectly level ground. Baddeley was a very tall,heavy man, weighing over 13 stone, strongly and loosely built,and was also the hammer-throwing champion in 1878 and occasionally made a poor show at long jumping, through fail-ing to jump sufficiently high and skimming too near the he had a great natural spring in his muscles, it suited himbetter to leap a trifle higher than his lighter opponent , who made his mark also as a sprinter and hurdler,. Long jump. was another magnificent long-jumper, having time after timedone over 22 feet in public. When a lad of seventeen at schoolhe entered for the long-jump championship, and as Davies, whowas also entered, did not put in an appearance, Lockton was in-dulged with a walk over. In 1875, 1879, and 1880 he also wonthis championship, on the two latter occasions clearing over22 feet. Indeed, Lockton, from the time he was eighteen, wasalways good for 22 feet; and cleared within an inch or two ofthis distance at his school sports, when still at school. 1^54 ATHLETICS Locktondid not figure prominently at sports after 1880, andsince his time it is hardly too much to say that most of thebest long-jumpers have been Irishmen or Scotchmen. Parsons,of Edinburgh University, who was, as we have described, alight-weight of medium height, not only cleared 6 ft. o^ in. atthe championship at Lillie Bridge in 1883, but on the sameday won the long-jump championship with 23 ft. o
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