The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-05-16


liz. II TAFT Meksnsie. ssirswtos of
the department os physical education
AT the University ~ pennsylvania.
ha. complied . mass of data concern
Ing IN. relation Of sthleiiea 20 lonse-
sity. Tae conclusion at ~hlch he has
arrived Is that the llfe 81 fav normal
man "a no takes up athletics ~ithoas
lueouslserase oyertaxation aaa aish
proper supervision Is prolonged Fath-
CT than shortened. rs his parsscips-
ton la athletics f>T. Mckenzie dis.
poses OF the fears that egf YouBg
athletes are doomed 20 an early
grave with the words ~ Marx twain.
who. on bearing reports II his own
death. eahied Reports greatly ~
agRerated
Dr Mckenzie has divided athletle
contests into two classes o. follows
/ Exericcs Of effort, Of which
sprintiug. hammer throwing and
jumping are examples These. he
SAYS. are exercises In which the pulse
rate and the blood pressure are enor-
mously Increased, as seen In the es-
preston OF the face.
2. Exercises OF endurance. Of
which typical forms are walking,
swimming. distance running tower
half milel. and rowing
In these the increased strain. the
pulse rate and the blood pressure
rise slowly and not SO high as in vio-
lent effort but they remain high and
come down very slowly.
DR., Mckenzie has made an ex~
haustiye study of the effects of row
ing on the heart and lungs. because,
in his opinion, this sport. which Is
the most fatiguing, is the more GER
tain to show any results that may
follow. In this connection DR.. Nc
kenzie quotes from f. II. Morgan.
who has made an exhaustive study
of the effects of rowing on 294 oars
men who rowed at oxford and Cam
bridge. Letters were received from
ISL of the 255 survivors and from
the relatives of the remainder. OF
these only seventeen spoke OF them
selves as probably injured or were
so described by their relatives with
considerable reservatitsm.
Similar experiments have been
made in this country and the results
have been even more favorable to
the longevity of the oarsmen. Dr..
Mckenzie has made a similar study
with long distance runners. With
long distance runners Dr. Mckenzie
,fvt air h1f
heart. common in distance runners,
is not necessarily injurious, and
cites many instances under his own
personal observation in which an eX-
animation of famous runners ten OF
more years after their days of active
competition revealed no i'll effects.
DR.. Mckenzie points out that the
real danger in athletics is the pro-
cressive loss of weight during the
course of athletic training IN prep
aration for contest. In order te
hiring the human machine to its high
est efficiency much of the fat Whlcf
remains stored up to provide agalhs
cold or the extra strain OF a severe
constitutional infection, like pneu
monia or typhoid fever, is burned up
This fact is still more true II the a'h
lete has gone stale, from when re-
covery is matter OF weeks ahc
months.
DIR McKenzie'sc onclusion is tha'
the way to prevent ill-effects in attn
letics is for the ambitious young mer
in college or in school TO submit t'
a physical examination before taklns
their training, so that they may n'
made aware of the fact If there Ii
ANYTHING the matter with the hear
or lungs which would make athie'i'
competition either fatal or danger