The evening world., 1912-12-16
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COLUMN
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Percentage Of BIookheads
Among Athletes No Greater
Than II 10 Among Students
Who Don't 60 In for Athletics.

oeptvasht 1919, b. he Pres Publishins o..
fThs New forh World.
nRoF. ALEXANDER MEIKI.EJoHN
- Of Amherst College. the youngest
college president In New England"
Aos delivered an opinion Of the Amsri-
en- athlete.
Now that the Professor has spoken
q 70 w to the Amsrcau athlete TO
egAWl into . deep hole and hide himself.
Pref. Msikisiohn crushed athletic sport
Ct . dinner held By the Phillips Exeter
a,onni History falls 10 state whether
Il Wss before the soup or after the cof-
- that the Professor spoke. but this
y what he said:
The athlete Of to-day V one Of the
the athletic neld and on the track. but
intellectually unclaimed. spawned.
tesins In and stumbling over themselves
II the class room. I wish ! could show
esns Of them what they look like In
teaisctuaily."
Among those present" were the -'in-
tsllectuaiiy knock-kneeA'' Charley
Asiehlsy and the spawned Capt. Dana
Wlugats Of Harvard's baseball team. II
muse have been . sad affair for these
atAIstie gentlemen to have their intel
loetuai weaknesses paraded before 20
many well fed and no doubt Intellectual
Diners.
Prot. Aeikiejohn' wound up his re-
aarks on American athletes by saying
They don't know the game Of life a.
tAsy ought to know IT, nor - well a.
tAsy ars going to iQow Il when the
American schools and colleges do their
work"
No doubt the "youngest college presi.
1eat N New England" knows all about
~ game OF life" He ahouh write q
book and tell Theodore Roosevelt. BID
Dtli" Edwards. Jerry Mahoney, Evarl
Jansen Wendell. Barlow 8. Weeks. w
Hickok. Walter Camp. o. VI. Hokanson,
Caspar whitney. Hugh Baxter and. oh
Q million or 30 Of other former college
men who wasted" their time In athletic
sports how to play H.
p HAVE no doubt ] could name. Of.
hand. . hundred former college ath'
ietes who are playing "the game oil
life" at least a. successfully a. "ths
youngest college president In New Eng
land. Yes. and 4 great number Of thes'
men. In their college days. held positions
at the head OF their glasses and gradu
ated with honors. Al a plain matter o
fact. there may be some blockheadl
among college athletes. but the percent
age 10 surely no greater than among tn
students who do not 20 In for athletics
Surely II 10 no handicap to any man
Al. n( - st.,
vigorous body. In ancient days tn,
oresks were the greatest people In tn
world. both intellectually and physically
and they had . theory that mental per
fection was not possible unlesr com
bined with physical perfection.
TIN JEFFRIns says that boxing IL
deteriorating sport. lie depiorc
the present fashionable manner q
wadinx In head down and arms naiiin
away. depending upon strength and en-
DURANGO TO win. and points with pride
TO the cieverncss Of the old-time cham
There. .om.,,b Is in ~h., Vim say,
But the whaling manner OF boxing
merely temporary. II win soon 20 o,
Of fashion. II was brought into pop,
iarity by Battling Nelson. bat ha
dropped out. and the other "whalers
will coon follow, I notice that the A
tells, the Netherlands. are the men WI
last a long time In the ring. WIN
Jitcliie. new champion; Mandot. NJ,
Fsrisnd. Welsh. and many others d.
pend upon shifty boxing rather tina
slusging. This thing goes In cycle
Sullivan was a. slugger. He set Il
style for a tyne Then corbett brougl
In clever boxing. II IL about time Z,
cleverneN TO come In again
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