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Show ARTHUR DUFFEY TALKS TO YOUNG ATHLETES Arthur Duffey, the world's champion sprinter, has been giving some good advice ad-vice to schoolboys who want to be athletes. ath-letes. The spreading popularity of track and field sports among boys In their teens Is making for a more wholesome whole-some life among many thousands of them. They are finding new incentives to bracing and vigorous activity, and coupled with it the foundation principles princi-ples of health. For example, they will listen with respectful attention to the advice of Mr. Duffey, when observance means winning races, and will paste In their hats such wise counsel as this: "Let the diet be plain. Dispense with pastries, candles, and, above all, never smoke tobacco, or drink alcoholic liquors when In training. You will be better without the two Jatter at all times. Cigarettes are fatal to athletes. Bathe dally and always use rough towels tow-els after a bath, and after taking your exercise. Never overtax yourself nor exhaust all your strength in any trial. Always finish your training with 'something 'some-thing left In you.' Only work thc hardest hard-est In the race Itself. "Finally let me Impress on all aspiring aspir-ing athletes the fact that rigldnes-s of purpose In training, and steady perse-i perse-i verancc are as essential as thc bulldog determination necessary to land you n winner at the tape." A champion pugilist has recently expressed ex-pressed himself In similar vein, and although al-though his calling may be disreputable, his ideos are well worth a place in every active and ambitious boy's memory: mem-ory: "If I had a younger brother, 1 would do my best to make an athlete of him. That does not mean that I would like to have him follow In my footsteps and become a fighter. Being a second-class fighter Is about the hardest way to make a living I know of. I would want him to be an athlete because be-cause no man can get the best results out of life without exercising and perfecting per-fecting his body. I have read that the old Greeks were of thc same opinion. They thought that no man could have an active brain unless he had a good, strong body for the brain to draw upon. If I were to advise any boy and tell him how to live, I would make him go out In thc morning and run. Running Is the best possible exercise, and it does not require any gymnasium or apparatus. appa-ratus. A good circulation is the best thing in the world to make an active brain. If I had a boy and I wanted him to become a successful business man when, he grew up, I would send him out to run over the hills." From thc Illustrated Illus-trated Sporting News. |