Sprinter's Start Analyzed

Frank Wykoff's 'Movie-Graph' -- Sprinter's Start Analyzed by Camera

WYKOFF "MOVIE-GRAPH"

SPRINTER'S START ANALYZED BY CAMERA -- 1928

Newspaper source unknown:

photo source: Eyre Powell Press Service

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ON DECK! -- how does Frank Wykoff

get that way? Is there a trick about his start? Watch this "Moviegraph" and see for yourself

ON THE MARK!

Here he is down on his mark digging his feet into the starting holes waiting the finals of the gun to start him on his way.

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GET SET! --

Poised suspended animation this. Here Wykoff is like a coiled spring ready to be released, all tension and, and aim a half-second later comes --

GO!-- With the flash of the gun he is out of the holes and on his way, leaping forward like a suddenly released spring. Note the the dust has not yet settled underneath his foot as he lunged off.

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DRIVING FOR

STRIDE!

Charlie Paddock -

while "Fastest Human," said that Wykoff "Fairly Flew" for the first 35 yards. Here is how he "Flew!"

1928 - Frank Wykoff's Sprinting positions analyzed - #5 - The Pace That Wins!

THE FACE THAT WINS! And here he is in full stride, exposures in making this strip were at 1/1000th of a second, and yet the figure is slightly blurred. Demonstrating that this power mass can hit the grit! -- Eyre Powell Press Service Photo

Also in another newspaper:

Newspaper Paper photo captioned ..."Former Des Moines Boy World's Fastest Starter"

Reprint of the article

Des Moines Tribute -Capital - Friday, July 13, 1928

The World's fastest starter -- such is the title now held by Frank Wykoff, 18 year-old sprint marvel of the Glendale, Cal., High School and a former Des Moines Boy.

It is the right to this this title that may enable young Wykoff to be one of the very few two-time winners at the Olympic games in Amsterdam this summer.

Wykoff's startling fast getaway, which enabled him to defeat Paddock recently in the Olympic trials on the coast and a classy field in the finals at Cambridge last week, was declared by Paddock to have been speed such as he never had seen before.

The accompanying "movie strip" of three photographs show how the youth gets away. They also prove that there is no trick, just pure speed involved. But you will note that his stride is one to marvel at.

Wykoff is expected to continue his great speed at Amsterdam this summer. He is expected to get out of his holes with the same unbelievable speed. And, if he does --Well, the others might just as well hang up their "spikes."

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