Athletes Models at Co-operative.

Two bronze statuettes by the sculptor R. Tait McKenzie of Montreal, representing the ideal college athlete and the typical sprinter, were yesterday placed on exhibition in the Co-operative store, where they will remain on view for the next three days. The figure of the athlete was made at the suggestion of the Society of College Gymnasium Directors on the basis of measurements supplied by Dr. D. A. Sargent from about five hundred Harvard students who have during the last ten years been distinguished in various forms of athletics, including football, rowing, and track athletics. It represents an athlete in the act of placing a dynemometer in his right hand, preparatory to testing the strength of his grip; and has been adopted as the permanent trophy in the intercollegiate strength test competition.

The figure of the sprinter represents a runner in position for the starting signal, and is an exact mathematical reduction of the average obtained by measuring about one hundred of the best college sprinters of recent years, including Dufly and Wefers of Georgetown, Long of Columbia, Moulton of Yale, and Bigelow, Haigh and Schick of Harvard. The measurements were supplied by Dr. Paul C. Phillips of Amherst.

Both figures are exactly one-quarter life size. That of the athlete has been accepted at the Paris Salon, and that of the sprinter at the Royal Canadian Academy, and at the Royal Academy of London.

After being exhibited at the Co-operative for three days, the statuettes will be shown successively at Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.