The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-09
Am I Right?

Am I Right :? \
THE strong mems contests at the state
& university, according to the state
mentsI of men who have taken the tests,
do not aid normal and healthful physical,
development as much as: they retard It,
One man who took a high rank both last
year and this year in the annual unlver-
sity competition said the other day that
the special training required for this con-
test stiffened the muscles SO as to unfit
the athlete for any other branch of sport.
Last year, this man says, he was unable
to do any good work on the track team,
because his muscles were slowed up
and stiffened by this work. This year
he at first refused to enter the strong
mems contest but finally was persuaded
to go in, and after a.. weeks training
found that hiss track performance had
fallen off at least twenty-five per cent
If this sort ct. training has the same
effect upon all men as upon this one
gymnasium directors should certainly
eliminate the strength contests from the
physical curriculum There used to be
a prevailing belief. that all professional
Strong men were. muscle bound.
Walter Wilmot the, baseball PLAYER once
said that work with the weight machines
and sdu1nbbells Of the gymnasium untitled
a baseball man for play, rather than than. i'm i'm
proving his condition, and It is motor
ious well known fact that many men who
can lift enormous Weights are worth lit
tie in football Or. any Kindred sport,
since, they do not possess the speed or
Stamina, necessary: 2 +f-
TRUTH, according to an old saying Iyy,iing
Struggles down at the bottom Of an
artesian well. Consistency apparent
~ exists somewhere near the planet Mars.
Do you remember how Governor Bliss set
his foot down when McGovern and Young
Corbett wanted ito fight in Detroit? ? And
| then how Jack Root and Kid Mccoy pulled
off a ten-inning mixup fortnight ago
| in the same place without a murmur being
heard from the authorities? And inciden-
| tally the Corbett-NIcGovern contest would
have. been a fair and square exhibition
while the other was the worst kind of 9
strong arm dealt aflude to the action Of
!. Mccoy and his hackers in making the
public believe that: Mccoy was still able
to fight.
Some months ago McGovern and Cor
! bett tried to get on a match in Louis
Vile A howl went up from the reform
ers, and the governor set his foot down
Just a week ago Kid Broad and Benn,
|.Yanger boxed twenty rounds at Louisvil
:. without interference.
Just what constitutes an infraction o
the laws against prize fighting? Is a bat
tie for a championship a prize fight an
anything else only a boxing exhibition
Or does the number Of rounds constitut
the dividing line? The fighters and thei
bacvkers have perpetrated so many ray
fakes upon the public of recent years tina
!, they have no complaint to make If the
are barred from every state in the uniol
but the same treatment should be give
; to all. $3.50 IS
t ENGLISH yachtsnnen are setting UP
!. II terrific British roar because of tt
rumor that sails made by Ratsey, tt
: Englishman, will be used on Reliance, IL
new cup defender. Since the cup rae,
are to be an International affair, say Il
Englishmen, 1t is very bad form and shoy
! lack Of craftsmanship to use Englis
sails on the American boat. True, blocl
made in the United States are used
= the challenger, but then. say the Briton
e blocks do not increase nor decrease
:: yachts speed, while sails are. a pote
= factor in this respect. All of which ca
is to mind the proverb in regard to the ow
/ ership Of the bovine that was puncture
= If there were not some advantage to
Is derived from using American made block
or the challenger wouldn't have them. VIII
IS setting up a standard for sport
= our English friends would do well to ave
all appearance ofzevil themselves.
sr. AN Englishman is said to have invent
= n a new style of shoe which clips fre
n ten seconds to a minute from a tre
m ter's record. What a cinch for a driy
=. who wants to- throw a race. All he h
Sc to do is to rip off the patent irons a
k clap on old style shoes and the st
y y is off.
NOVEL TEST OF GoLFING SKILL.
novel test of skill with the driver, bras
re and c1eek is arranged by the Haworth Coun
i'll club Of New York. to take place Aug. 30.
q contestants will start from given tree. max
=. all the distance within their power on the dri
~ The second shot will be made with the brass
and the third shot with the cleek.s The win
will be the competitor getting the greatest age
gate distance. -
nd q Rent your home for the summer. Y
to can do It by placing an ad in thesJo,
nal. The price Is only 2 cent a word