Show arc enough problems I A fronting the country today without trying to dig up any new But there is one we should meet now and take care of in future Hp f is the matter of far better 3 ical training and on the mym Par of millions on thc I We have been I rated a reat this has concerned only a small percentage of picked people of stars good enough to make big-time teams and so draw big crowds at the When you for that out of some young recruits over have taken practically no part in most of these barely can chin they can't baseball or football with any that they are quickly that they are clumsy you begin to get part of the I know of one district of 81 66 were turned down on the physical side earlier in the There is something entirely out of focus with our form of athletic i The Younger Side What this country must have is enforced athletic from the ages of 12 to 16 or Above it should include jumping and Before the war we were facing a legless where kids live on The program also should include such competitions as boxing and basketball and A body-contact such as should not be compulsory before 15 or passing and touch football fit In nicely not hard tackling or I believe that for overdoes high-school Too many hard games for undeveloped kids can do more harm than Six or seven games a season for those under 18 or 19 is quite But at has erred on the right In too many other states the kids are not An Example I got an eyeful of this poor condition while walking around with Jack Dempsey of the coast The coastguardsmen were There were several thousand from all over the They were dead But most of them had known little physical training before they came to I'd say about four out of As Jack pointed tackle a But many of them don't know their left hand from their right hand when they conic and they have a hard time chinning themselves just never saw a more willing They just never had a chance to It's a shame we've had an athletic system that 1 developed a comparatively few instead of giving every kid a It means a lot in more ways than and I don't mean on j the physical side of is There's also the mental which means young fellow who can handle himself also believes In the ex-champ went he can a wrestle a swim or play some game fairly his head is But when he knows he is no good at any it Is only natural that he has no confidence In Youth Training how about a national program of athletic training for all between the ages of 12 and After that they'll take care of This in almost any will help develop a certain amount of skill and There are no finer developing exercises than jumping and For band exercises use a small rubber ball or any small object to be gripped and squeezed to develop finger Ask Lefty Grove or Charlie Keller about In the way of competitive games there are touch track and Scoring Rules Wo yet have been able to sec any sense in thc scoring rules or regulations whereby long gains for touchdowns are not scored as downs If a back runs 12 yards and Is he registers a first If ho runs 40 yards and there is no first The present system can be quite There was a game not io far back in which one team piled ip a 40 to 0 and yet was not with a first All scores were made on long runs or |