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A it tJI Of i 10 O i I ERt D AFRA OF I t G TALE F IRE A FA I Ei y fT t 0 tl 1 K si u P E d UJo RI o Tn ff 6 E A I I a VET POUN Pou FO oo 1 COBBS COBB'S SUCCESS DUE In CLEAN LIVING r o R Ruth th h Is Not Burned On Out t P Poor or Training His Weakness By ROBERT EDGREN I Babe be Ruth Ruthis is b burned out remark remarked re- re mark marked d a well known wn baseball fan tan when B Bane Babe be took a layoff last week because his hI's ankles swelled out of shape and he couldn't run Ruth isn't burned out He never did enough hard work to be burnea burned o out t. t and he never never dissipated enough to be burned out Ruth has been careless about training at times but until recently he always could come back with a little tittle hard work Ruths Ruth's trouble is an inclination to take tak on ft fat and hd a disinclination to dl t and w work rl steadily for long pe periods periods pe- pe nods between playing seasons That That- has hag caused his frequent spells of illness and th the n necessity for an operation Uon Careful living all the time time not not just through the playing season would season would have kept Babe Ruth at the top of his form for several years more But when the doctors begin to pry around Inside of an an athlete te that athlete Is up against a tough proposition An Anop op operation r may save a mans man's life but it cant can't restore de cle clean n wholesome wholesome wholesome whole whole- some youth It always leaves Its Us scar scar inside as well as on on the sur sur- fac face COBB IN SHAPE Take as a contrast to the unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate un un- un- un fortunate run home-run king our old friend Ty Cobb Ty is the highest paid player in baseball He draws down a year for managing managing- Detroit and playing center field For several years there have b been en rumors that Ty is ab about ut as a ball player yet ho he always comes comes back in his his old form The ThO reason Is that Ty Cobb knows how to taka take care of his health and he ho does It Ty Cobb never hit the high spots pots Today he Is as healthy an athlete as I know and when no ne does retire retire- from baseball ll he isn't going to be chased out by the doc doc- tors tots Ty will retire when he finds that his legs cant can't keep p up with his agile kile mind when mind when he cant can't play the game to his own satisfaction because age ago has grabbed him Athletes may be burned out in n two ways either by athletic strain when not hot fully developed or by dissipation dis dig Ive I've known more athletes to be be burned out by what t they ey put putdown putdown down Wn their throats than by arfy- arfy thing else Overeating is as dangerous dan dan- as Prosperity is often otten a handicap to an athlete No Noman Noman Noman man ever thrived on rich foods and strong drinks and a a life of ease Hard work never hurt hurta a fully de developed developed developed de- de athlete You never heard of a day laborer being burnel out by hard work A fighter in training doesn't do half halt as much real work as a ditch-digger ditch with a pick and shovel Job When you h hear ar a fighter tighter complain of being trained over you can be sure it its it's because he is soft sott and doesn't like hard work SELDOM HURT There may have been cases in which boxers were wrecked by too much hammering but they're few tew I have known of many cases in I which they were burned out by be beIng being being be- be ing sent in to fight when too young to stand the strain of any hard competition At 16 Eddie Hanlon of San Francisco knocked Young Corbett down and nearly out ana and beat a lot of the best lightweights lightweight Of pf that day At 20 Hanlon was burned out and practically through as asa a a- fighter and It took him years to get over it and start SUCCESs SUCCESs- fully in another profession Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- of boS boys like Hanlon have been burned out by being sent along too fast before they developed their strength The most dang dangerous rous development in all sport in recent years has been the competition in the schools with track meets football and basketball basketball bas baa youngsters who ought to tobe tobe tobe be exercising to develop themselves Instead of competing to advertise the schools and make a reputation for their athletic coaches In many cases th the coaches dont don't care what becomes of ot the young athletes afterward afterward aft erward Followers of athletic sports know that few of the best I schoolboy athletes Improve proportIonately proportionately in college They are I often otten burned out by too much competition competition com corn petition before they grow up and andreach andreach andreach reach their natural full development development develop develop- ment THE OLD AND NEW I There is a big difference between the old Ideas of training and the the modern scientific notion Fighters I and other athletes us used d to eat and I drink heavily when out of train train- Ing They had to work off a lot of poisonous fat tat before they ce get into any kind of condition theima T TJ broke training with a rr fr course of dissipation after atter a contest thinking that was training over to keepin condition all the time Gene Tunney Is a good exam of the modern style of train I IGene Gene works steadily studies 1 l Ing as he might study engine Ing and keeps In perfect con ori tIon Instead of stuffing d da beef beet and ale like the ers Is almost a vegetarian and drinks drink's nothing b bu water lIdl pl even coffee or or milk mUk Instead gruelling long runs on the i he plays golf golt I Funny you never hear of t Finns being burned out Nu Nix Nix- IT birds all do enough running running to an ordinary athlete Sure but t haven't much to eat In Just dried drle fish and black bread 3 that sort of thing And they h hM ha i started schoolboy there yet Give them a time Copyright 1925 by the Den Bell S. 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