Most points are reasonable and indeed a 1905 match v Johnson would be a pick 'em IMO, but citing the Monroe "fight"as a decent performance is a...
You bully!
relay splits are timed from centre line ie 100, 200, 300 and finish.
Jackson was an alcoholic, dissipated, and probably in the early throws of TB, he had no meaningful contest for SIX years and Jeff was on the up....
I have ran intervals all my life, still do! If only doing 3/4 flat out 100/200's I personally find my second effort is usually the fastest. There...
And Petersen, maybe Scott!
Jeffries over Peter Jackson, Hank Griffin over Jack Johnson, Tom Sharkey over Fitz.
taking the baton early would help his time, maximising his rolling start speed. Most tracks i've seen were marked correctly for zones. An ordinary...
DeGasse ran in spikes, similar to those from Ownes time.
"I ran the 100 yards a thousand times in less than 11 seconds. And one morning, just to try myself out, I ran ten dashes of 100 yards each — all...
its all in the OP's original post, go to the Trove link, it is all kinda rambling. The OP used OCR text reading or something.
"I ran the final sprint that day in 10 1-5 th (11.2) seconds and that mind you, came after i had run 9 others in rapid succession." ps overall...
Jeff was a bit of a spoofer, he claimed that he never even seen boxing gloves before Hank Griffin came to town, but we now know that he had...
Kicking an 8 foot ceiling does not mean he could jump 7 feet! As for his 100 yards, the Olympic event was 110 yards approx, won in 1900 at 11...
Griffin did very little of note pre-1900, "Jones had the better of the fight" LosAngles Herald Dec.1898. Both the Joe Kennedy fights were...
