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Identifier: howtobecomeathle00sull (find matches)
Title: How to become an athlete
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Sullivan, James Edward, 1862-1914. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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AT THE COMMAND GET SET Spaldings athletic library 17 is thrust directly forward, and a short, fast pick-iii) is used^to get into stride quickly. Lawson Robertson, the trainer of the Irish-AmericanA. C, of Few York, gives many valuable pointers ontraining for sprinting in another section of this book. Heconsiders bounding the best form of exercise for the muscleswhen starting in to train for sprinting. He asserts thatthe exercise gives the spring that is necessary to boundover the ground. He also devotes a great deal of time inshowing his new sprinters how to get into their stride in-stantly after getting out of their holes. This is a very im-portant feature, as many championships have been lost byslow starting. A man might be a very strong runner—astrong finisher—but he would find it next to impossible toregain the ground lost by his slow starting, everything elsebetween himself and his opponents being equal. Athletes starting out in the sprinting game shouldbear in mind that the

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