Identifier: newrationalathle00reil (find matches)
Title: New rational athletics for boys and girls
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Reilly, Frederick Joseph, 1872-
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D. C. Heath & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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to give them a real shot toput, as there are points about the form thatcan be taught only with the shot. But withlarge numbers it is impossible to use eventhe so-called in-door shot. We have sub-stituted a 6-pound medicine ball, on the sideof which the makers have sewed a leatherpocket into which the boy slips his fingers.This prevents the ball bouncing out of hishand when he takes the preparatory skip.Two or, better, three medicine balls shouldbe provided. Two lines painted on the floor,seven feet apart, indicate the circle. Be-ginning at 16 feet from the start, lines arepainted on the floor to mark the minimums,16, 18, 20, 23, 26; and then every two feetup to about 40 feet. Thus the squad leadercan see at a glance how many feet each boyhas put. Toward the other end of thefloor and a little to one side is another circleand a set of measuring lines running in theopposite direction. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 47 Two groups can thus engage in putting theshot at the same time. Group one (half of
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Plate 15.—Shot Put: First Position a squad) puts down on one side; the ball isstopped and rolled over to one of the secondgroup, who puts it back on the other side. 48 NEW RATIONAL ATHLETICS So two or three balls are kept circulatingand no time is lost sending them back to thestarting line. • In putting the shot, the boy stands withhis right foot on the rear one of the two linesindicating the seven-foot circle/ with theball balanced on his right hand at his shoulder.(See Plate No. 15.) From a crouching posi-tion, weight entirely on the right leg, hetakes a skip forward and then, as quick as aflash, he twists in the air, landing with hisright foot just back of the front line and fac-ing in the opposite direction to that facedat ^starting. As he twists in the air, heshoots his hand out and up, straight from hisshoulder, putting the shot as far out as hepossibly can. In this exercise also he shouldremember that a projectile fired at 45 degreestravels farthest. (See Plate No. 16.) Two

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