| Show 0 0 S HEREDITY PLAYS PART ART P IN MARVELOUS PERFORMANCES OF PAAVO P AA VO NUR 5 ARD WORK ORK IS ISi i n NEEDED NEED ED fOR 1 h S 'S 11 Ji ew Ri Eich Rioh h Men MenEver SEver Ever f t Sr F Become Famous tt il Athletes A t hI etes t. t j 1 i f If f 5 By ROBERT FOBERT EDGREN i V. V TV was as watching Paavo Nurmi in inS ina S t s' s a ft race At my elbow a famous i trainer muttered What Wha makes em emS S 1 so 50 tough that's what Id I'd like to ton n S ind out 1 f S Paavo Nurmi the Finn inn was wasi i up with few luxuries He 5 drive t to school In a 1 flivver er 1 t Ie walked walled or ran He lIe ate dried diled fish t 4 nd rid black bread bread the tho Finnish naS na- na S jl t nal fodder He did i a- a lus lot f 1 t f of iM running n M t n v. ff for tor years and ana anaa t a 0 bunch of titles and records i s o lint Lia Olympic meets He has done w. w ugh running on American f 1 c T Aboard ard tracks during dUling the past winy win win- i y 3 fler r to stale a regiment of at men and andL L V I s Jre as nimble and as S S ever e In America Nurmi h has s been S r. r e ting American foods foods oven even pie pieS S mhd pastry pastry but but he h hasn't shown S S j tiny any letdown In endur endurance nCe or speed S can still go as fast as he wants 5 5 to at any time 5 Heredity may have hae something to todo todo 1 do o. o Paavo comes conies from a a. aj at t j line of black bread and dried j fish eating Finns inns who walked talked or ori orl l' l t n when they wanted to go anye any any- e 1 and who took their baths j. j S I even een In midwinter in-midwinter and the Finnish S r is something something- to talk about t. t S S 4 J by by- going out in the back lot after S 5 td dark dak and pouring a 1 bucket of watt wa- wa v tt vi hJ lover o er their heads t. t tRo ROCKNE aNE WANTS WORK f Coach Knute Rockne once said to r t. t nh Rich mens men's sons Ii iYa 1 a hard time making the foot- foot hJ l t teams ams these days They ride rideS r S J k cars too much and they dont don't t t. t id develop elop legs Notre Dame v v men pick tough jobs for forS J Jr vacation time like working on oni n S i lake Jake steamer samer docks Rockne used t. t c do i that when he was at Notre 5 5 and he advises his football i i men nen en to try it Hard work never 5 5 hurt an athlete Red ned Grange the gt sensation of the tho two past years drives an ice lee wagon in vaS va- va j S catlon cation time hr Jim j Jint Duncan's Duncans discus throwing S record of ot feet 8 3 inch stood S 4 j thirteen years ears before It wast was was- t broken last month by Bud Houser Heuser and aM by Glenn Hartranft the the week When Jim Duncan w was wasS s sI S S I making worlds world's records with the theS S Discus he worked on an L railroad railroadS S New ew V York Inspection and nd repair S Job Handling a bi big sledge hamI hammer ham- ham I mer er gave him a a. pair pall of huge and andS S hands and big hands are needed to control the discus dius S What makes em lem so tough j. j Jack Dempsey never knew krew how nto to to order a hotel meal meat In his younger youngS young- young S er r days He Worked in lumber camps at road building In mines St t driving horses and on mechanical cal cat Jobs In shipyards He ne worked from the time h he was 8 years old S He ne ie lives lIve on plain coarse food He didn't know there was such a 1 thing jas as mushroom sauce or a river fattened fat tat tt ned oyster He ne developed big lean ean an working muscles and big hard hardS S ha hands and ds-and and became becane a worlds world's champion ham cham pion tilon when he tried ring fighting S S D Dempsey mp ey has been living softly for sev several ev ral years now v and but for his hisS S rears ears ars or nara hara work would b be In inS Ine S e mushy stage He knows how howS hard hell he'll have to work to get et back S S into the cond condition Uon he could reach S tn hi lj a a. week five or six years yeats ago I t IS S 9 U at have ha three months of hard hardS S training before I can fight says 5 rD Dempsey S SS S ICH HANDICAPPED S S How v many rich mens men's sons make 5 5 good In sports Not many Tom S of Yale was a marvelous c exception hut but counted 5 S there father was a lum- lum 5 w ln and I Shevlin wa was wag brought up woods S f 1 Thet Ita have v been a 1 few sons ons of frich men IDEn who vho became great reat nth nth- tes There was john ohn R R. DoWitt l x t t f. Princeton a tremendous man marz L C f rind and still remembered for his his' great greats s football play pla- and hammer throw- throw r yr Jn I dont don't know much about DeWitt's DeWitts DeWitts DeWitt's De- De 1 Witts Witt's family but Its It's a 1 safe bet t there th re were no Idlers In It I lIe He n U. U nt get Ket his huge physique by 5 You 1 can see the mark of S heredity every time NEGROES NEGROES WORK s Take the negro ro fighters Noi o o I S one of them was born with a silver S spoon in his mouth Their ancesS ancestors ances ames S tors labored since the dawn of hisS his his- I S tory They built the pyramids pyramid They dug the great Egyptian canal anal S three thousand years ears ago where whereS S the Suez Suc canal is now where th theS the S Egyptian n slaVe slate drivers left loft th the S T bones Jones of a hundred thousand worn worn- out out men in the desert sands beside besideS S S the big ditch They worked on S J I. I southern southern- plantations and led handled baled cotton on the steamer clocks docks of New Orleans and other southern 5 5 5 And have ports they big shoulders S and ond long arms and big fists and a i. i punch in either mitt Jack Johnson Johnson John- John 5 son was wag a Galveston stevedore Joe Joet JoeS S t Walcott was a coal on onS steamers rip up from Barbadoes Sam S S 'S r Langford was a a. sailor Joe Gans GansS S worked in the fish mar- mar lIar Harry y Wills WAS a stevedore after atter starting rubbing down horses and working as as exercise boy by on the therace therace therace race tracks When I again met that famous trainer who wants to know what em so tough Ill I'll tell him S Its It's ts t's work worl There never was a loafer yet jet et who amounted to anything any any- thing v Copyright 1925 by the Bell BellS S Syndicate Inc |
