one leap to better effect than these
photographs have shown them in eight different leaps. The ninth picture
is a portrait of the clever young athlete, who is shown in action in all
the others. He is S. A. W. Baltazzi, of the Harvard School of this city,
who holds the interscholastic high-jumping record not only of the
N.Y.I.S.A.A., but of the United States. At the Interscholastics last May
he cleared 5 ft. 11 in., but since then he has covered 6 ft. in
practice, and I have no doubt that he will defeat the Englishman who is
coming over to represent the London Athletic Club at the international
games this fall. Baltazzi is seventeen years old, and weighs 135 pounds.
He began jumping while at St. Paul's School, Garden City, in 1891, and
won first in a school competition with 4 ft. 9 in. At the school games
of 1892 he took first, with a jump of 5 ft. 1/2 in., and in 1893, as a
member of the Harvard School, he established the in-door scholastic
record of 5 ft. 3-1/2 in., at the Berkeley School winter games. The
following year, at the same games, he raised the record to 5 ft. 6-1/2
in., and subsequently took first in the Wilson and Kellogg games with a
jump of 5 ft. 5 in. At the Interscholastics of 1894, Baltazzi and Rogers
tied for first place at 5 ft. 9 in., breaking Fearing's Interscholastic
record of 5 ft. 8-1/2 in. In September of that year he won first at
Travers Island, jumping 5 ft. 7 in., and later in the winter he took
first in the Barnard games with 5 ft. 8 in. Having taken first in the
Berkeley, Poly. Prep., and Columbia College handicap games of 1895, he
lifted the Interscholastic mark up to 5 ft. 11 in. at the Berkeley Oval
in May. The following week, at the Inter-city games, he cleared 5 ft.
10-1/4 in., and took first at the N.Y.A.C. spring games with the same
figure. Baltazzi expects to enter Columbia College this fall; and if he
does, there are five points sure for the New-Yorkers at Mott Haven for
some years to come.

[Illustration: G. B. FEARING'S FORM IN HIGH JUMPING.]

The picture printed on this page is a reproduction of a photograph taken
of G. B. Fearing, the Harvard high jumper, in 1892. Fearing held the
record of the N.Y.I.S.A.A. until Rogers and Baltazzi broke it in 1894.
His form was entirely different from Baltazzi's. As he clears the bar in
this picture, both his feet appear to be curled up under his body, and
his head is thrown forward and down. He seems to be almost reclining on
his side, wh