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young men, his length of lower limb is up to the one-hundred- 

 per-cent class, as in the case of Johnson (see Chart A, No. 2). 

 His other bone lengths are low, except his feet, which are 

 long. The hip and elbow girths show heavy bones. An old 

 fracture of the left femur, with shortening, invalidates the thigh 

 measures somewhat, but the calves are away below the knee 

 girths, while the insteps show a condition of flat foot in this 

 man also. 



Great breadth and depth show splendid lung power in a chest 

 round, capacious, and barrel-shaped, but not very mobile, for he 

 has small expansion. His pulse is rather fast (eighty-four), and 

 his strength tests, much above his muscle measurements, would 

 give the impression that if determination and will power can do 

 it he will always be a winner. 



In his case, as in that of all the men whose measurements are 

 here shown, the left thigh is the larger, probably from having 

 to bear the body weight in turning the corners of a rink. Fig. 5 

 shows well the rounded shape of the chest in expansion, also the 

 type of figure shown in the chart. 



J. K. McCulloch, of Winnipeg, is certainly the best representa- 

 tive that Canada has produced lately in speed skating, and he 

 takes front rank both in this sport and in bicycling. We would 

 hardly expect the typical development of a skater, however, in 

 this man, who excels as a gymnast and all-round athlete as well. 

 At eleven years of age he was winning boys' races, and his sum- 

 mer evenings are taken up by rowing, canoeing and lacrosse. 

 For the last three years bicycling has been his main form of ath- 

 letic exercise during the five summer months. In winter he is 

 the mainstay of the Winnipeg Hockey Team, and his special 

 penchant for the parallel bars in the gymnasium shows in the 

 well-developed arms and chest. His measurements, plotted on 

 Chart B, show a few of the characteristics of the skater. With 

 height in the thirty-per-cent class we find comparatively short 

 legs and long thighs. His arms are also short. A glance at Fig. 

 6 well shows the shortness of his leg. His muscle girths are in 

 the eighty to ninety per cent class, while his knee-bone measure- 

 ments are down to twenty per cent ; his narrow hips give origin 

 to very powerful muscles, whose girth make up for these bony 

 deficiencies to speed skating (see Fig. 6). His calves are large, 

 but he tells me since he stopped wheeling, four months ago, they 

 have decreased nearly an inch and a half in girth. 



His chest is deep and his strength tests show well- developed 

 arms and back. Fig. 6 shows where his extraordinary speed is 

 obtained : the driving power lies in the very long and muscular 

 thighs. This young man is a natural athlete, and, although not 

 built for a skater, excels in that sport as he would in almost any 



