A photograph of a hurdle race which will make the stylists shudder. In spite of his doubled-up method of hurling himself over the sticks, the hurdler nearest the camera gave the other two a start and a beating. The other two are giving a good display of the old English style of hurdling, which is being dropped but slowly in favour of the American straight-leg style, despite the undoubted superiority of the latter method.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 10
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74A photograph of a hurdle race which will make the stylists shudder. In spite of his doubled-up method of hurling himself over the sticks, the hurdler nearest the camera gave the other two a start and a beating. The other two are giving a good display of the old English style of hurdling, which is being dropped but slowly in favour of the American straight-leg style, despite the undoubted superiority of the latter method. Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 10
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