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Show RUSTY CALLOW SAYS HIS HEALTH PIECE Coach Resents Charges That Rowing Injures Heart. An old belief that college rowing causes heart-strain and damages the future health has been attacked by Russell R. Callow, coach of the University Uni-versity of Washington crews that have won the intercollegiate championship at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the last two years. "Rowing," Callow said, "with proper prop-er conditioning and training of men, is a great upbuilder of the human system sys-tem and will increase a man's life because be-cause the sport embraces all those elements ele-ments that build up the body and keep it fit. "Doctor Meylar of Columbia university univer-sity said, after studying the records of fifty years' rowing at Harvard, that oarsmen lived five years longer than any class of men engaged in sport. "It is my thought that oarsmen live longer than devotees of any other of the so-called violent sports, for several sev-eral reasons. Rowing doesn't call for the abuse of tbe body or make it subject sub-ject to such blows, knocks, bruises and fractures as do boxing, football, wrestling, baseball and other minor sports. "Rowing, in the final analysis, does nothing but enlarge the capacity of the lungs, fill them with pure air, build up the abdominal muscles and all the other muscles in the human frame. It gives to its devotees billions oi rays of exhilarating, life-preserving sunshine." sun-shine." An oarsman improves as he grows older, said Mr. Callow. "A university oarsman is good at twenty, better at twenty-five, and if I could have a crew made up of men around thirty, new world's records would be set." |