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Show SEE NO HARM IN ATHLETICS Tests Made on Various Athletes by French Medical Men No Cad Effect en Heart. Trench me, 'dial men niter a number of tests have agreed that nthVtles ib not HiYoct the heart, ns has been g"ii-eraliy g"ii-eraliy sap; osed. Tors were made bv mea.b.'rs t.f the Academy of Me hciue In Paris on runners. Jumpers hurdlers Javelin l.uricrs :::! bicy.le riders lai-nu-!:a:,-:y alter their perform iihtv -II;. ; ertr.-i Ida resulting frotn nth letic exertion Is n normal reaction of tie heart niul works nbe!llTeIy nn harm." declare 1 Dr. !',,!::. y. In ad of commii, ti iraidr.g tests, afterward. "1 have no hesitation In endorsing athletics ath-letics as b"r.et"; -'..".1 to the h"!y and mind ot tn'th men and women." Prof. P...gney-s findings nre In direct opposition to tl.e assertions of Professor Profes-sor I'.asile of the Paris academy who before the tar alleged that athletics overstradne 1 the heart and shortene 1 life. |