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Show ATHLETE PLAYS I ROLE OF HERO IN BIG WRECK Life of Athletes Is Full of Just Such Worthy Performances. By WALTER CAMP Special Corrvrtpondent of The Stand- artl-l-Alamlner (Copyright, 122, by The Standard-Examiner) Standard-Examiner) NEW YORK, July 8 In the Atlantic Atlan-tic City railroad disaster of this week, the outstanding hero was Jonathan Jona-than Miller, hotter known as "fton Miller, tho star backfleld man of the University of. Pennsylvania eleven .Miller was working this summer as B brakeman and was on the wrecked train For hours in the darkness he worked extricating the injured and administering ad-ministering first aid ,tlreleis and ? II-I II-I sacrificing Miller Is but one of the many athletes ath-letes who have ffliown when the real 1 test eame that they were prepored to 'assert their Qualities of manly courage, Tinie Lamar was one of the greatest halfbacks that Princeton ever turned ' OOI a man who turned apparent defeat de-feat by Vale to victory ha i In 188G He lost his life in an attempt to save a girl from drowning, j Athletic history Is filled with thes events So far BS the war is eoneern-' eoneern-' od. If one were to chronicle the deeds I of our athletic heroes It would require pages ami pagi Many times the writ-, writ-, er has been asked th reason why tho athlete stands out in times of cmer-Igency cmer-Igency Whv among the many men nt Wifislow Junction was it "Hos" Mil-I Mil-I ler who stood out as dolni the great-' great-' est work ? Well there are excellent reasons -Why ahd they should convince even the I most ardent critics of Inter-collejriate j sport that athletics tiaV( a value apart from mere play. When the time I comes for action the athlete Is always ' ready to serve In tho first place the 1 cardinal thins: the athlete learns is to t po on, so matter how exhausted ho i may be, no matter how he may be suf-; suf-; ferlng The great human decalogue of thc-youthful thc-youthful spurtismii n Is never to quit. I That point Is drilled Intn him on-siantlv on-siantlv on the athletic field. He mua forget his pain his exhaustion and Ion with his Job. Now, this Is not a , natural act. The child has no such 'cournce until it Is drilled Into him The ' human Impulse as soon as pain Is felt 19 to slop. So the code of the athletic field develops men who will not quit 1 or run away or become paralyzed p 1th frlyht or terror In an emergencj This Is where training tells. Fond parents who in excess of timidity tim-idity and antlety, forbid their los o-ing o-ing in for the rough virile sports, ' should think how they may be spoil- in their manhood Hoys may be reai-led reai-led with too much caution. It is a part 'of life, of success In life, to take a I chance, "Look before you leap" Is .1 good adage, but If you look to lung. I you may fall. 00 |