The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-27

whether I have been taking ex-
an instance. After a very
hard court tennis match with the
Worlds professional champion, Peter
Latham, at Brighton, 1 did a week of
sedentary work of about ten hours a
day. l scarcely went out of doors, and
1 took practically no exercise. At the
end of the week, on the Saturday, 1
played the racquets against Moore, who
is now the professional at Tuxedo and
was one of the best professionals in
England, and another player, for about
two hours. In the afternoon l played
court tennis for an hour and a half
with Mr. James Byng Gribble, the pres
ent holder of the Gold Prize in Eng
land. At the end l was quite fresh. l
had not to stop my work because L
was training; 1 had not to stop my
training because 1 was working. l can
and do continue working before a most
important match, and 1 can, if need be,
resume working Immediately after
wards. At Montreal l played three hard
racquet matches in succession. At Tux
edo 1 played three court tennis
matches in the same day. finishing up
with a match with a cricket bat in
stead of a racket. At Boston I played
court tennis and racquets for the
best three Boston players. All this
was on a diet of which the basis was
milk powder.
But is that hard exercise? Yes, I
fancy that racquets and tennis and
SQUASH are among the hardest of all
exercises / have often seen powerful
men exhausted after an hour. Any
one who visits the Racquet Club in
New York will see the effect of an
hours play on some of the 'ittest"
men in the city.
But how about the brain for work!
Does not the brain need fish? 1 have
only taken fish a few times in these
four years, and l have only stopped
working for a few days at a time. SO
far as l know, the foods which 1 take,
including graham bread contain all the
phosphates that my brain needs. l can
work ten hours a day without fatigue.
Last year I coached about 200 pupils
at Cambridge; l wrote over twenty
books and a great many articles; and
at any time 1 was ready to go in at
moments notice and play a hard
racquet match.
But is mine a unique case? Could
any one live on this milk powder, not
entirely, but as the chief basis of his
food supply, adding to it fruit, and veg
etables. and grains? Science says,
Yes; but Science knows very little. The
only test is that the diet should be
tried by a number of athletes. AT
present, as a diet for training, 1t is
practically unknown in America. MIX
is naturally condemned because of the
amount of fat it contains. Four ounces
of proteid a day would mean perhaps
sixteen glasses of milk a day. Few
would be able to stand this. With my
diet do not get the fattening part of
milk; l can easily add just as much
fat as want; but I make sure of my
four ounces of proteid day
Other questions naturally arise. For
instance, is 1t palatable and varied?
That depends upon the 1avorings.
have found that certain flavorings are
decidedly palatable; that others are
not. But / find that the pleasure OF
eating comes now not so much from
the nroteid as from the fruit and vege-
tables which ] add For me, the pow
der Is decidedly dlgestible.
II has been successful in my own
case both for training and for brain
work. and for general health as well
as Tor economy. The latter point is in
disputable. and that is one of the chief
recommendations. About the other
points no one can be dogmatic before
vast numbers OF experiments have been
made The individual must give the
final verdict for his own case after
lair trial but I fancy that II is al
most q unique experience for man
who was once unhealthy 10 have mad
practically no Illness for four years. 20
have have been always in training, and
seldom 20 have stopped his regular
brain work the whole time There have
been those who have been in training
pcrsistently. but they have not worked
hard with their brains. There have
been those who have worked hard with