| Show OLYMPIC GAMES IMPROVE ALL NATIONS CORRECT METHODS AFFORD AID M X N x N PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT DEVELOP TOPIC Training Puts Men in Shape For World World World- Games B u Ai C pedal Coric Con c nt of oC Ihu right 1924 by the tho Consolidated Consolidated dated Pre Press Fres Association MEW I OR ORK Au Aup- Aup 9 s Alter After A t all the tho great thIng thine about the thO 1 and and anol anolIn andin andIn In tact fact all our athletic competitions lions Is the development of ot health and and happiness and the tho Imp ment 0 c- c ment of ot the ph of ot a race and anda n a nation Then there are aro such points as the tho welding together ot of all oil nation nation- nationalities In amity through association lion tion In sporting enterprise writer Th Th oritor has already dwelt at length upon this Question and It noW seems timely and valuable to con con- consider con consider sider somewhat extensively naively the tho subject of o physical development Ve V e a sometimes hear athletics de de- de decried de cried and are all with the common Bating saing that athletes die young Statistics In vast quantities quantities ties Iles hue have been published for Cor and against strenuous athletic comp compe competitions But Dut It seems to the writer after many years as a competitor competitor competitor tor folio followed ed by man many cars eara as an e ested ted spectator that the aver aver- average average I age critic or partisan artisan partisan partisan-Is Is i to 10 I miss the main point which Is thit I nature takes taJes Infinite pains to mako her children fitted for tor their jobs no what those jobs may beIt be I If It a man be a 0 blacksmith fo Co Instance to-Instance nature steadily builds up upright Great muscles ot of good goodright goodrIght UPI I right arm But she puts no buch de upon the office clor cler I If a a man Is compelled to be out m in inthe inthe the tho sun dally daily nature tans his skIn to counteract the danger ot of th I actinic rays of ot the tho lun aun B But t sue leaves leases indoor men palO pale p ot or cOlor But nothing Is la done dono In a hurry hurry- hurry It Is all a gradual fitting for Cor or the performance In which the man bl From this we ee 0 take lake our lesson Gradual ration is the tho cardinal principle long but moderate training and It if ifa 1 a n man changes his hie job to some other specialty a slow Bias methodical alteration without 1 violent shit hlf The savage living out or ot doors fails ails an easy victim to the enervating iiI InK ing effects of Indoor life liCe while the thO Indoor man Is II In no wise Ise prepared to stand tand the rigors of ot outdoor ct- ct ex existence UAL STEPS But both by U- gradual steps m my y yIn In Ume time become accustomed to ra rail rail- rad radical l- l ical changes change In their 11 lives es b ba ith our athletes tho the main after atter all is preparation in iii a sane and gradual manner which ulti ultI- ultI ultimately ma makes great grent feats not n only possible but safe Bate How far tar sl specialization can be carried without danger has not et been determined but we do know that sidedness one when carried to toan toan toan an extreme Is likely to result In Inan Inan Inan an unbalanced condition and ren- ren render render ren render der the athlete liable to break break- breakdown do don down n Outside the principles of ot careful 11 or preparation there thero Li is another factor ot of o which tar far too lit lit- lit little tb tie tle has baa been made It is the study tudy of oC of doing one thing In the tho best Oe ties ties- pos way Correct method of o per per- por makes an act natO saCo whereas It If it be awkwardly or Incorrectly do done no It is dangerous This fact tact I Is Im very ver patent In many forms of ot acrobatics but Is not so easily recognised In our sports Perhaps no DO better Illustration of ot thIs has h s ever er been presented than thanIn thanin thanIn In tho the case se ot of Yale Yalo crews crows on the In their early races of 1922 and 1923 1823 In the tho former fonner VC r eveT spectator upon the observe Lion train saw the plucky Tab Yal oarsmen struggle In a condition upon complete physical ex- ex exhaustion exhaustion ex exhaustion to get their boat across the finish line long after atter all their II als had finished There was the general Impression that grave ph Injury might result from that effort Next year the Yale Tale crew finish finish- finished finished ed easily sitting up rowing with with- without without without out apparent t Ie leading all 1 other cre crews across neross the line IIno and andIn andin andin In the tho end rowing back to 10 theft theli quarters Not a mancas man was Wa exhausted and no more weary than han would n follow any moderate exo B BENEFIT HEREIn In 1922 the tho yale lale ale crew was 8 Ilsk- Ilsk tn tug Injury through bad perform perform- performance performance ance that la is to say through bad methods and In 1923 1922 they th y welo do- do doInG dolog do doing ing log the tho thing scientifically and Ith benefit benent rather than with risk riak Any man may be so rigged In a hoot as to make mako his hia work danger danger- ous Otis elUs Any man m may be he Injured In almost any sport In one of ot two wave either through lack ot of prep prep- preparation preparation oration or bad method ot of per per- per performance And under under the latter lafter head comes cornea many runny familiar faults such as s not adjusting meals prop prop- properlY properly properly erly In relation to the time ot of can conSt con con- St not taking care of ot the tho body after aCter strenuous exercise Indiscretions Indiscretions In diet and drink and many other that hale base nothing to todo todo todo do with the tho mechanical perform perform- performance performance ance of o the specialty whatever It may be The Olympic games gunes at- at atford af at afford ford any amount of ot m ma- ma ma in these r respects p |
