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Show io BASKETBALL MOST STRENUOUS GAME Athlete Is "All In" After Hard Fought Game Nothing Left for Celebration. fBy Monty) New York. Jan 16. What is the most strenuous sport? What game is I not wearing and tearing on the par-! par-! ticipantb therein? This formed the subject of discussion here recently I among the little group of former ath letes, all of them now sporting writers writ-ers on New York newspapers. After evey man had had his say, the conclusion con-clusion was unanimous. The answer was not boxing. It was not football Basketball was elected without a dissenting dis-senting vote A hard game of basketball takes everything out of me When it is over, there is never anything I want to do except sleep. Shortly after a sparring bout, a football game, a running run-ning race, pitching nine innings of baseball, a hockey game or a rowing contest, I always have something left. If I or my team won. I am strong for any celebration suggested. But after a basketball game never! I am all in." These were the words of one oi the members of the party, who probably was the best all around athlete ath-lete of the lot tn his time. And his companions agree he was no peculiar indlvidual for feeling that way about it. |