New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-17

marck and David Dudley Field ..Men who train
Of he aa yf0 t0st and
shey oegn to train; do not shorten their lives by
Dr. Morgan who wrote to all the living unlvers, ~
oarsmen who had trained for the oxford or the
their hea spd h TO learn about the condition Of
annette struggles He received tidings from some
OF their families. and found that where the aver
age length of life would have been sixty-one or
sixty-two years. 1t was year or two more in their
cases
This was the work Of an intelligent man. who
studied the matter in all its aspects. or this num-
Der there were fifteen cases where heart trouble
was indicated. and only three cases where there
was pronounced heart disease. Some of the fifteen
cases may have been hereditary but there were no
medical examinations as there are now and many
organically unfit and who would be rejected to-day
Inc college athletes a'e more intelligent than many
but even in the latter class athetics alone seldom
q any harm We know that prize-hghtcrs have
me deveiopment, Is prematurely old man. but ex-
athletic work. ~
PRlzE-FIGHTERs THEMSELVES TO BLAME.
There is in this city man who a generation ago
fought Australian Kelly for four hours and
whipped him after 30 rounds. That man is Edmund
r Price, and he is none the worse for having been
prize-hghter, because he and Is a man Of
good habits and If the boxers. wrestlers fighters,
walkers, runners and swimmers who have died OF
tuberculosis had been frugal, continent temperate
men, those who were not born with the disease
would not have died Of It, On the whole athletics,
II properly, judiciously conducted, beneficial
nave been made by men in England and In this
country who were students prominent In ath-
ietics The list is long one and interesting one.
ana includes Bishop Wordsworth, who rowed in the
oxford crew IN 1929, and Bishop Selwyn. who
one of the Cambridge eight the same year.
Here Is one name. he said. pointing to that of
passing note. He the captain of the victorious
varsity cricket eeven the captain of the victorious
crew or 1S4s, and the senior wranger of his year.
international
he was judge for oxford" At that race Tom
Brown. of Rugby" was umpire. and Mr.. Blaike
was the official starter. Justice Gritty is now one
Superior Court OF Judicature.
1T Is no wonder" Mr.. Blake said. that people
are asking: Does athletic work kill" 1t is per-
fecty pertinent question because they some men
who were prominent in athletic circles die before
their time 1t should be remembered though that
not few of these same men had no right TO be
prizes. They should have been athletic. but not
athletes in the modern scientific and their lives
would have been prolonged The schools and the
colleges becoming more strict year In that
respect and compel man TO have his heart and
lungs examined thoroughly and carefully before
he is allowed TO train, and in order 10 do the most
But new danger stares us in the face. Just
people ask now Does athletic exercise kill? so they
will ask In a few years. Does the bicycle Kill? Ii
will not be long before many of those people who
ride wheel and sit entirely out of form. In positions
which must be injurious Will feel the effects. and
the time will also come soon when men and women
wheel will pay the penalty OF their indscreton.
Then people will blame the wheel they
See your physician before going into athletic train
ing. and see him before you learn ride bicycle.
All men are not born to be athletes and riding
wheel may be as injurious to some violent ath-
who can should ride wheel. which Is the most
popular athletic tool ever devised"