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Show ISffrSPOmMT I wo' Grantland Rice (Copyright, 1922. New York Tribune, EVENTUALLY NO; 1LREAJJ Jl women In a short While will take pari in us many competitive sports as men " News comment. A They arc Jumping Bhe hurdles and rowing. i Their shot-putting Isn't a mvih. l They are sliding a. id batting and I throw in, i At Vasaar and Wellesley and Smith, : Their teams are now o er the water I For fifty yards up to a mile. And each nation cheers on it daugh-I daugh-I ter J Say whatya mean a short While I In England hard football ;mi stop 8 'em. y Of polo they haven't a Jour. In Berlin With right hooks they drop I 'cm I JA bile showing a caulibloom I iai i Russia thej fought with the legion, Av-ir I rophh ar dot nH;. . howdya git " short w of the Berlin system t Flapper Right Hooks makes any progress, one "mlghl advance a step on beyond Kipling Kip-ling "There with a two-fisted wallop. Her uppercuts flashed with a wnirr,. I watched her one day put old Demp-1 Demp-1 oey away And I learned about women from her.'" SERVES M STAMINA Dear Sir. What Is the connection between stmlna and nervousness; Can an athlete have a fine stamina, but poor nerves? N hleh Is the more Important, Im-portant, a good nervous system or fine stamina " J. p. C A good nervous system is usually on- of the foundations of stamina. High strung nervousness may drlvt a man at top speed, but it seldom carries car-ries him over the long route. The nerve strain is more wearing than the pV.slrai mind li one's nervous system Is out of whack, there Is a I strong possibility of a physical deficit later on. THE TWO TYPES Ty Cobb has a world of nervous en-rrgy, en-rrgy, or nerve energy, yet he Isn't nervous in the accepted meaning of1 tho word Tho same applies to Jack i Lempsey, who can't keep still five minutes at a time, i 1 1 in Itht r Cobb nor Dempsey i wears away hhs nerve Deserve by fret-ting fret-ting or fuming or throwing any set of i fluttering duck fits In advance. Worrv is the Idg leak through which I most of the nerve reserve flows. Theje ur- many contestants who can't sleep tin- niKht b fore a competition. compe-tition. These always take on a big handicap the next da: ivlth their physical phy-sical power at d lower ebb Overtraining, leading to stateness, means thhat too big a drain has been i, wide upun thi nerve reserve. VERV1 U RECKl lis The tw.j idg nerve wreckers, killing off Stamina :r- worry and fear They eat Into the reserve supply at a crushing pace. The unworncd and the i arless are nearly aiv.avs at their best, capable of vast durability "liat" Nelson wa3 a leading type hire. Scott, Collins, Mornsby aid Slsler are types beset iv neither fenr nor worrv. A slow start dni a tlilrty-day handicap handi-cap threw "Babe" Kuth inta a state or worry that took away his punch and killed of: tils liiu.nr .Tne entry who is Inclined to fret and worry n lot Is usually doomed to a short career There are times when a physical slump can upset the nerves iust as well as ragged nerves can bring about a physi ai cave-in. J ffrics in his prime, knew neither worry nor fear before any fight. Against Jack .lohn-son. .lohn-son. when he found that his phslcal decline had ieen enormous, he knew ooth Worry and fear arc botll among tiiH deadliest of all poisons, and stamina stam-ina and poison rarely take the same road. This frequently accounts for thosje unexpected reversals of form that come about. The nerve reserve becomes exhausted and at the first i rltlcai moment, with nothing to call upon, the crash follows. This Is not so much a matter of gameness. Game men have known worry and game men have known fear, under certain conditions. Their gameness or courage may send them along with the best they have, but the heavy handicap of an exhausted nerve supply remains, with the consequent Slump in skill and ability. i m- of the finest competitors we evci knew, becoming ov erl rained t:ni-cd t:ni-cd to Sleep ten minutes the night before be-fore a big i humpionship. only to collapse col-lapse utterly the next day against a ri v a ! not even close to his class. on |