Show I VIOlENT EXERCISE IS BAD FUR fOR YOUNG I ATHLETE SAN FRANCISCO Feb 5 The The Olympian official organ of the pic plc club San Francisco's famous athletic organization In Its Issue just published has the following to say in discussing the evil effects of too much in competitive athletics in our preparatory schools anent the death of a well known athlete who recently recently re reo re- re died of pneumonia Very Injurious Is violent competitive competitive tive work or severe endurance tests like the theone one reported recently of an mile eighty bicycle trip made by several sev sev- eral oral Boy Scouts Experiments made some time ago at the Wister institute Institute institute tute showed that all the organs of the body are enlarged by exercise during the growing period The heart kidneys kidneys kid kid- and liver showed an average excess of twenty per cent among the tho animals that exercise vigorously in revolving cages compared with their companions which were confined without without with with- out exercise Investigations made at Wisconsin university have clearly shown that from five to ten per cent of the freshment fresh fresh- I ment meat have enlargement of the he heart I and dilation attributable to indulgence In sever competitive athletics In preparatory preparatory pre pre- i schools The human body is a self-regulating self I machine the parts of which adjust I themselves to conditions conditions' pretty well after maturity has been reached If the constitutional stamina necessary to resist the onslaughts of Infectious disease after maturity is to be de developed developed de- de for the battle of life there must be conservation in the formative formative formative forma forma- tive period Excess of exercise change of diet and habits and self self- I denial in in training all have an injurious injurious rious effect on the growing boy |