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Violent Physical Exercise Announces
Famous British Authority Who ;
Finds Athletes Should
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Business
Men
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Adeline Gehrig Fencing Champion, Winning High Jump at Brighton Beach
TfHERE 13 no eucb thing as aa strain on Ms heart muscles -that thy oer-
I 'athletic heart!'" ' develop and aubseauently dlsintefrate.
Thus Dr. Thomaa Iwis. fa
''xaous BrltiBh scientist and the world's:
,leading authority on the functions of the
heart, exploded a belief that has been unt
Tersal for many years,
The so-called ''athletic heart," says he.
has been confounded with heart disease to
such -an extent that every time a retired
athlete dies of heart disease the old cry
Is raised . that he died of "athletic heart!"
'Thousands succumb to heart ' disease in
one form or another every month, and
among these thousands are chronic in
, Talids. weaklings, octogenarians and crip
ples. No particular comment is made over
their deaths. But if one ex-athlete suc
cumbs to heart, disease it is immediately
and- incorrectly attributed to "athletic
heart." A notable instance ot this oc
curred recently when Garland Jake)
Stahl, president of the Washington Part
National Bank of Chicago and former Uni-.
versify of Illinois athlete and major league
ball player, lied of beart disease at Los,
Angeles, Cajt:
( Medical scientists point to the prob
' ability that Jake Stahl would have died
years -ago if he had not been a great ath
lete during his youth. '
' The old athletic heart belief, now rele
gated to the abode of superstitions, was
. substantially:
That an athlete who engages In violent
and sustained effort such as rowing, foot
ball or long-distance running puts such a
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Katherine Agar, Americajn 1 Girl
Athlete, Thro wing-' Javelin iti
Pershing Stadium, Paris. ' The
Healthy Heart, Says pr .
Thomas Lewis Cannot Be
Injured: by Such" Exercise,
No Matter How
Strenuous.
leaving him an 'easy prey to Jorfanic heart
disease, and perhaps death jprhen his period
of intense athlejlc activitylls' over.
Much of the- protest against the en
trance of women Into violently competitive
sports ha? been based oft; this contention.
Yet women have entered .practically every
realm of sport, and apparently with benefit
rather than harm to their, physical well
being. . v ! ; -
In complete reversal of the old medical
opinions. D. Lewlg'aystiown the proposi
tion that "it is impossible to injure a
healthy heart by vio- f-
lent physical exercise
no m alter how long .
sustained-" j j
Jt. the heart of a
rower or football play
er "goes bad," he says,
it ii because there
wag something the
matter with his heart
in the first place, and
if he had had It prop
erly examined he
;would ot have been
permitted to engage
in these violent sports.
Dr Eugene Lymac
Fisk, a leading Ameri
can authority, com
menting on' the con
. tention of the British
ncientist, lays down
this further proposi
tion:
"'Athletics, even pro
fessional athletics, ui
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Di(rac9 Showing
Hew Norml :
Human Ber
''Wears Out."
(1) Muscles
Begin to Be R
' placed by Fat
First Flt in
Calves of Legtt
. At Same Tite
Heart Muscles
Becin to Undergo
Similar Change.
(2)-Lost of Wind
Because Heart1
Pump Insnf-
fieiant Blood to
C3 and 4) 1
Lungr, Liver and
Stomach.
(5) Eyes and
Teath Daterio
rata ard Poisons
Form in Mouth
Cavity
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James W. Reilly and Fred Plaisted, Famous Rowers Now Past Eighty.
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themselves, promote long life and . health.
The professional athlete should normally
live longer than the professional business
man. '. .."
"As the xtormal man Is constituted to?
day, the average Professional athlete be
gins to decline in afhletlc efficiency be
fore thirty or soon after. At forty he is.
usually "through- as a professional high
Powered athlete but he should Still be
In better condition than the normal man
who has never been an athlete and should
lire to a healthier and. riper old age 3
- Dr. Flsk explains in detail Just how
physical efficiency decreases. A man's
muscles begin to be replaced by fat. In
cluding the muscles of his heart. Hevfeels
ft first fa :hls legs and wind, afterward to
the kidneys, liter, stomach. tl tth
and head, ia the approximate sequence F"
given. "The process Is described In th
diagram ot the discus-thrower on this page f :"
i He says that, hardening of the arteries
la not a .cause of. aire, as his been autv L .
posed in the past, but mfely one of its
effects. i . ; , ' , ; . - i . .. Ic-jjwnwmx'wy
"Every now and then,- eaya Dr. Fisk, ' ;
-an Individual athlete retains his fuU4t"
5rraereVaef fa good many of these as - , (
V CoBTrtrM. 123. br Iatcraatoaat featare ervia, iaiGres tsim Biats Beserved,
T
i Camelia Sable,
j Star American
i - Woman's
; Olympic Taam,
Winner 50-Yard
Dash. Science
Say. She Will
' Suffer Ne III
Effects in After
i Li fa from 'This
- Herd Training
v and Violent
: Exercise. Balow,
Two of Her
Compatitora in
50-Yard Dash.
Individuals, but compared to the sum total
they are few, and they must be regarded
Simply as exceptions to the general rule.., -;'What
causes these exceptions? There
are three chief causes, and in an' indi
vidual case science would have to have
the man's entire history to know whica
cause was predominant.
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"Usually, however. It would be uiscov- -red
that one of the three f ollowing cMses,'
or a combination of them, would explain
a case like that of -Iron Man" McGinnity,'
Bobbly ,. Wallhonr, Frank Kramer ; or
Zbyszko. . I '
"1. Hereditary that is, an Inherited ten
dency to longevity, with ah Inherited
powerful constitution to resist dislntegrar
tion and disease, ' .! ;
"2. Blind chance--that is, good luck in
avoiding through childhood and maturity
the ailments and illnesses . which wear
down the constitution. . It is obvious that
a baby cannot protect Itself from scarlet
fever, chicken-pox, 'mumps, whooping
cough.. There are many similar thiigs
accidents, poisons, Infections, etc that a
mature man cannot protect himself
against. He can take precautions! . but
chance can easily become a determining
element. ( j
M8. Unusual temperance and deliberate
care of selfr - i
A group of remarkable veteran ethl
many of themi still going at top speedl
pgr nving tnuatratioa to Dr. Fisk's
meats an exceptions. In this group!
"Iron Manf Joe McGinnity, flftyfour,
former pitcher for the Giants, j still pitch
ing In Mississippi Valley Leaghe.
Bobby Walthour. forty-three, champion
cyclist, still In pink of condition and; still
winning honors.' i t
. -Ty" Cobb, thirty-six, oldest iVeterin in
American League, batting average nearly
.400 In his seventeenth season just closed.
,.Zbyszko, forty-fire, still one of world's
prenfier wrestlers. ; , I' ''
Frank Kramer, past forty, held national
professional bicycle championship until he
voluntarily relinquished It this year. I
..Jack Brltton; thirty-seven, boxer J
holds welterweight championship of
world. i
Pat McDonald, forty. Is 'still national
weight-throwing champion. . J,
Dr. B. F. Roller,, forty-six, held Ameri
can wretling championship until i past
forty and still In perfect physical Condi
tion. - .4. -:; .:. . T
WflHam Muldoon, seventy-seven, former
wrestler and famous conditioner of men.
"Pop ! Geers, serenty-two, veteran; har
ness driver, recently drove a pacer I to a
world's record.! '
Edward Payson Weston, eighty-four,
world's champion , walker, walked 18,000
miles across continent and back when
seventy-two years old and is still walking
long distances. ' ;
Dr. B. F. Roller, j who is . a well-kHown
physician as well as a former American
wrestling champion and football star, be
lieves that men' survive best in sports
which do not require them to train down
to weight below normal, and in which
violent effort is sporadic .and occasional
rather than sustained.
"Take the prize fighter; jor instance.
say Dr. Roller, "He seldom lasts at top
notch condition past thirty. He has to
v sweat and diet and reduce. ; He may be
healthiest at 175 pounds, yet have tej work
himself down to 160. This process In the
long ran barnr up tissue and pulls ;aowa
a man's constitution. I'
1 Pmnilr with ttita lha ' tiacaVioll nlivA
or even the wrestler, it makes no' differ
ence whether a ball player weighs X25 .
pounds or 225 pounds. The wrestler is not
under obligation to train down.
"The most strenuous forms of exercise)
calculated to burn a man out are boxing,
football, bicycle racing, tennis. The best
games for a man of middle age or past
middle age. in my opinion, are gplf,: hand
ball, wresUIng and basebalL" , i . :
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