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Show Athletic Period Purely Matter of Clean Living Age and its relation to athletics is coming in for considerable attention. Kilbnne at thirty-four was an older man pugilistically than Jess Willard at forty. Over in England there is a man, Maj. George Putnam, who is eighty years old, and he plays lawn tennis every day. Fitzsiinmons was Kilbane's age when he won the heavyweight championship. cham-pionship. The Senior Golfers' association asso-ciation has many members in the sixties six-ties and seventies who play better golf now than men in their thirties. It all depends pretty much on how a man takes care of himself. In professional sport an athlete is regarded as a veteran after a few years of competition. Ball players and boxers can be under eighty and be referred to as veterans. Benny Leonard, the lightweight champion, is a dapper young person, but boxing fans speak of him as the veteran lightweight champion. In other sports It works the other way. Willie Hoppe will always be regarded re-garded as a youth. He hasn't changed much in appearance, and the public impression of him as a youth will be difficult to erase. |