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Show Young Athletes Train Toe Hard Y. M. C. A. Director Talks of Dangers That Confront New Aspirants for Glory. "Thero Is more danger of a young athlete's ath-lete's doing too much training than too little," said a Y. M. C. A. physical director recently. "This la especially bo In somo events. Take, for instance, tho high jump. About half tho tlmo tho performance made by athletes In a big event are Inferior to their practice marks. Tho reason is simply the fact that thoy have worked so long at their training that they have Decomo otalo and havo lost tho snap that takes them up. Tho broad Jump Is tho samo. "On tho other hand, there aro some exercises ex-ercises where thero Is much less danger. In tho shot-put, for Instance an athlcto can work as much as ho plcaseo, provided ho Is working for form and not distance. "This working for form should really bo tho greater part of a man's training In any event. In tho .high Jump lt Bhoula bo a series of trials at tho bar at a height which docs not even test the Jumper's capacity, ca-pacity, but with tho idea of studying tho easiest methods of Jumping and coming to tho tako off. "High Bchool basket-ball teams play too much. Ono hard game Is about enough for a team to play In a woek. Two games is too much, especially If tho double doso Is repeated tho noxt week, Thrco games a week will practically destroy tho ambition of any team of boys. But practice is not to bo discouraged by any means. Every day isn't too otton for tho ball to bo handled, han-dled, passed around and tossed for the basket. The best basket-ball player In town has a baskot and a ball at his office that he uses during his sparo tlmo each day, and thero Is another outfit at his room. It's this 6ort of work that breeds success, not the playing of a lot of hard games, especially when tho teams are school boys." |