Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-03
BRAINS Count
in ATHLETICS
At ALL Times
Charles. A. Dean Believes in
Applying Chess Principles
in Sporting Events

"ApDiy the DTfHCtile OF CntRSN UltAh
a couple Of moves ahead all the time
and you have the secret of success OF
the big men in nearly eVeryI game in
the calendar of sport" is the concise
expression of opinion as given by
Charles A. Dean, eX-preside1t of the
Central Association OF the Amateur
Athletic Union. That Charles knows
whereof he speaks there can be no
reasonable doubt, inasmuch as he has
refereed in nearly every sport eXtant.
Continuing, Mr. Dean said:
THE dub in basketball has to stop
and think what he is going to do with
it when the ball is passed to him. The
expert. the man who stands out in the
game, is the one who knows what his
next two or three moves will be. He
does not hesitate when the play comes
to him. He is the quick thinker, the
analytical thinker, and as such he has
a great advantage over his fellows of
less nimble wits and less foresight.
Builds Advance Defenses.
"The chess master is not puZzling
over the present. He is building up
an attack and defense, and to do
this his mind is far ahead of the men
in their positions on the board. Your
successful big league baseball manag-
er is planning his battle all the time.
1t is not necessarily inside baseball
that he is using, and he is taking ad-
vantage of the breaks, just as the
chess master is doing, but in the Sec
ond inning he is projecting himself
into the third and fourth and fifth in
nings. He is the manager who wins
baseball games. -. 49,. -
ION the gridiron it is the captain or
coach who makes his plan of battle in
the first period for the third quarter
that has the edge. The boxer who
gees into the ring figuring ahead is
the one who keeps at his mode of at
tack and wins with. it. In golf the
man VINO can think only of the mis-
takes of the present is the one who
must suffer In theefneIre at the hands
of the man who forgets his errors and
builds for the succeeding hole.
Mental Effort in Polo. "....-
Take the game of water polo as it
is played at present. 1t is coming into
more popularity than the old slam
bang, drowning, neck breaking, Ro-
man holiday style of polo ever en-
joyed, and it is all because this new
game brings out more mental effort
than the old one and just as much
physical exertion.
In this game it is pleasure to see
Hebner and McGillivray and others of
the national championship l.. A.. C..
team in action because of their SUI
preme coordination of mind and mus
Gle. They are planning ahead, play
ing the game OF chess in water all
the time. When Oats McGillivray
or Harry Hebner gets the ball it does
not stay in his hands. He is thinking
all the time, working out forms of at
tack and defense, and his team play
shows it. ~ IT,. .--..
This is just as true of one sport as
it is of another. No man in any game
can rise to the top unless he uses his
head more than his hands and mus
Giles. In the track and field game
have seen many superbly physical
but unintelligent runner beaten by the
less developed nan because the latter
uses his gray matter He planned his
race; his ego was a couple of jumps
ahead of his tees all the time. In
swimming every muscle works, but
with all the muscles going the mere
physical machine is not a winner If
It's headquarters is not doing the right
sort of directing.
Headwork Equal to Fists.
Just as it is true that the lawyer
or the physician or surgeon OF busl-
nessman must be on his toes, tigura-
lively speaking, on the alert all the
time, always looking into the future,
always and forever using his brains,
so it is a fact that the man in PROBES
sional or amateur sport must eImIn-
ate the ivory nom his makeup. Many
and many a wonderful boxer has
sprung up, held the spot light for
while, then descended into utter obIlv-
ion, while another has come up and
stayed there. The boxer who gets the
decisions, the laurels and the money
is the one who mauls with his brains
Just about twice as fast as ne does
with his fist"
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