What is the limit of human)
endurance as far as track and
field performances go?

Some of the smartest minds
in the sport have given that
one more than a once over lightly
in the past and have been far off
the mark in their prognostications.

Take the case of Brutus Hamilton,
for instance. Hamilton, track and
field coach at the University of
California, more than 10 years ago |
stuck out his neck and forecast the;
ultimate, in his opinion, that the
thinclads would attain. :

An astute student of the sport, |
Brutus the Bear got out his slide|
rule, figured all the angles and came
up with his announcement.

If “anyone should come close to!
predicting the ultimate in track and|
field performing, it should be Ham-|
ilton, as this is one vet who know
his stuff.

But, although we haven’t had
much doings in track and field for
the past four years, his forecasts|
today, 10 years after they were}
made, could stand some revision. |

He didn’t set his sights high;
enough,

Most of his ultimates either al-
ready have been exceeded or the!
present world’s record is creeping
perilously upon them.

Some of them, however, still are
above the present record.

For instance, Hamilton thought no
pole vaulter ever would top 15 feet
18-100 inches then. In 1941 Cor-
nelius Warmerdam, the Fresno ace,
was credited with a leap of 15 feet
5% inches and no less than 14 times
has bettered Hamilton's figure! |

And in the high jump he thought
the ceiling would be 6 feet 11 22-100
inches. (Note that he cut it right
down to fractions.) The present of-
ficial world mark is 6 feet 11 inches.