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Show Special Effort Only Can Give Supremacy Strength Is a matter of effort. You cannot hope for great strength, oi athletic strength, or any high degree of vigor, as the result of namhy pamhy types ol exercise. You can not hope to become a wrestler by playing ctuiiuet. You cannot become a champion sprinter by the practice of walking. The piano mover has more musculai vigor than the book keeper, and the bookkeeper has more mental strength than the piano mov er. Moral or spiritual strength grows with Its exercise. And then again uthletlc strength is acquired through athletic effort. It is almost axiomatic that the kind of strength you develop, and the amount of it. will be deter mined by the kind of elTori and the extent of the effort pul forth In train ing. Carl ICaton Williams writes. In Physical Culture Magazine, li you concentrate your training upon one kind of athletic activity. It does not follow that your training will fit you for some quite contrary type of effort. |