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Show Professional Football j Players Not Thought J Best in Trenches J LONDON, Jan. 29. (Correspond-; I enco) American college athletes wiir f find something to thing about in this. f A prominent Glasgow medical maa who has just returned from a profes-i H sional visit to tho front in France savgi that professional football flayers are f not wanted in tho trenches, and ex-W plains that this is so because their en- ifi durance Is less than one-third of that ; f of the ordinary soldier taken from the desk or the farm or the shop. He at- : tributes this to the fact that they have I been so long "tuned" to the highest c pitch to take part in the game. In ad- Jk dition, their nerves are so aculo that they cannot stand gunfire, as can the ordinary man. The doctor says "It is like linking up a race horse with an artillery team." ji: nn m-: |