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Show -tfbdt Stars In Some -Sports : Often Fail In Others "T HAVE heard of many cases," says an old time athlete, "of men who were accused of being quitters solely because they couldn't make good In ono sport as thoy had in another. For Instance, there was a lad at Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, woll known for his ability as a water polo player, who simply funked In football. Water polo Is no child's game, and this man could stay below with tho best and rough It as hard as any one. Still, when It carao to football foot-ball ho wasn't thero. "Pennsylvania had also the case of a first rato sprinter, a real champion at tho dashes, who showed all tho courage cour-age In the world at anything up to a quarter of a mile, no matter how hard he had to go, and still in a football suit couldn't got up his courage to go at tho tacklers Ho had what has been doscrlbed as tho sprinter's natural hesitation hesi-tation tho dcslro to save his legs. "In tho football days at Columbia thero was a fellow who was a first class bicycle rider, as during as thoy mako them and an adept at basketball, another an-other rough sport. He tried to play end on the football team, but gave It up because, as he said himself, ho could not get his feet off the ground. Tho divo tackle was an Impossibility to him. He said he couldn't rid himself him-self of the dread of letting loose at the man with tho ball. "Columbia, too, had a man who was reputed yellow In football and afterward after-ward went out to row. A graduate camo to Coach Rice, who put this man In his boat, and said: 'Rice, that fellow's fel-low's a quitter Better get him out For answer Rico put tho crew through a tough time row, bringing the graduate grad-uate along with him in the coaching launch After tho exhausting trip, In which both men watched the man all tho way, Rice turned to tho other man and said, 'Well, is he a quitter?' And the graduate had to admit thero wasn't , any yellow in tho man in question, ib' The oarsman rowed in two of tha jCf toughest races Columbia has had In 'IDr recent years and never , showed the ffjlS.1 least sign of cowardice. !Gt!r "I've heard of a case at Yalo of a man UX who was a champion hurdler, but foot- SJ? ball showed him up. Ho simply could JSLJ not carry the ball, fast though ho was. ijpflS It Is football that furnishes the hard- rtfchrtl est test of theso mon who excel in oth- JMowi er lines of sport. There seems to be a:pwg special sort of courage required of men? gr for football and another in other), gg games. f HI "I've known men who were arrantl H cowards as far as fighting was con-J BX ccrncd who ran the most bruising nceajj flff on the track and never displayed theR B least unwillingness to punish them-i IH selves. Thoy probably suffered moraf B than they would have If they had been- In a fist fight, but they couldn't getf K themselves to face tho idea of a Pcr-t;S 'sonal encounter." BSl |