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Show Athlete a Poor ollliors. An odd fact, developed uy tho campaign cam-paign of the Sventy-lli Ht Is ihls, at least It oeems to be estahll-hed, that, given equal hardships, turn In flue athletic training suffer more than men in ordinary condition. Statistic hnw, in ilils tvluiein. tout the runners, thu Jumpers, the crack blc.vcle-rldeiR, and tliu record men generally were readier fevet victims, than tnelr comrades, nud gave cut sooner lu thu emergencies of the battlefield. There was Sergeant Meoks, u long distance runner, and "Hub" Smith, u bicycle rider, aud Sin-bold, Sin-bold, a winner of running races, and On, i sprinter uud lander, and Private Pri-vate Meoks. another bicycle-rider, and Dlvanue, n runner, and so on through a long list. Almost without exception these tluu nlhlutea fell into Illness or tutor colbipso with the (lrst hind strain nut unoii ihem. They made woiso fnver eases and dyutery cases than thu others, ami It nppiared to nurs u and di'Otors ns beyutnl question that the thorough physical tnlnlng which thesu meu had ceiupleted just before the war, in anticipation of the spring athletic games, was ti serious impairment impair-ment of their powers for teslsting disease. dis-ease. It Is worthy to note, also tht most of these athletes indulged neither in drink nor tobacco. Cleveland Mof-fett's Mof-fett's Camp stories in Leslie's Weukly, |