ATHLETICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1935, Page 2

ATHLETICS.

prominent german.. youths. LONDON, June 4. For the last three years the athletic oa m for the Schloss Sclinle ;»t Salem, .lie famous German school, have been •onspiouous figures :it the annual pub.ic schools sports mot-ting organised by die London Athletic Club. They stand out. not only by reason ,f- their great, shill at three events ■.throwing the discus and javelin and putting the weight), hut because they differ so completely in appearance from all the other competitors. Almost witlijat- exception these Gorman boys are sturdy and broad, with smoothly but heavily muscled legs. If one did not ‘ now who they were one, would write -hem down unhesitatingly as Scandinavians. They are ol the bodily type produced by physical culture, and every

one of them is deeply sunburned, as though he spent much of his time out of doors. They do not look like runners even when they run. and in fact the English boys, quick and wiry. fined down to racing machines, are lar too good for them. But th<- Germans get more than their own hack in the throwing'events, which demand at once a big muscular development and a high degree of control over it. Their allround physical education is clearly a good deal more efficient than the British.