Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
ANCIENT RIVALRY +.
Of HARVARD, YALE
RENEWED IN RACE
Crews Acquire Form That Will
Improve on Time in Former
Contests.
By WALLER CAMP

Special Correspondent Of The Great Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
New York. June 17.-Word from the
Yale and Harvard training camps at
New London Saturday brings advices
that the rival Fights have attained
form that will enable them to make
far better showing over the o u
miles route than in the shorter re-
gattas of the preliminary season.
Whether this is true or not, it is GER
tain that the two frequently defeated
crews will fight out their own indi-
vidual rivalry. which means more to
them than all the other races on the
calendar, to the last ounce of their
strength before acknowledging defeat.
The same will be true at Doughkeep-
sic a week from Monday, only here
there is an added incentive. particular
" between the navy and Cornell.
Mile. %LengIen's Heart
What will be the effect upon the
future of the men who engage in these
varsity contests and will there be any
data later furnished to the public?
The public is growing increasingly in
terested in that remarkable organ in
the human anatomy, the heart. and its
action. Apropos of all the cables that
are coming about Mile. Lenglen's heart
and whether she will follow the advice
of her parents and not enter the
Wimbledon tennis championships. there
is a great deal of misunderstanding
about the work of that remarkable
organ and what it does in response to
strain of athletics.
For years there have been periodical
alarms about the effect of athletics
upon the heart. A physician who is
engaged in the work of examining and
handling athletes has long ago become
aware of the existence of a quality
called accommodation" and he also
knows that whatever the temporary
condition is. the majority of men do
come through and thrive under it.
No one, of course, except her own
physicians, knows the condition of
Mile, Lenglen's heart and hundreds of
middle aged lawn tennis players in
this country sometimes wonder wheth-
er by following up their favorite sport
they are injuring themselves. The
heart is not nearly az delicate an
organ as many think and the work it
does and continues to DO under vary
ing conditions is nothing short of mar
velOus. A mar in training for an
athletic event, properly handled, in
creases his work gradually and his
muscles, including the heart. respond
to the demands and do it with safety.
The wonderful part of it is that with
some of the carlessness displayed there
are not more injuries.
Accused Of Quitting
There is one phaze of the matter
that perhaps has not sufficient atten-
ton and that is the custom that has
grown up in all our athletics of the
greatest admiration for the nan who
will not quit" One of the accusa-
tons against Mile, Lenglin in her aban-
donment of the match at Forest Hills
against Mrs. Mallory was that she
quit" 1t is undoubtedly true that
In the case of boys, undeveloped and
not properly trained, the will to do is
80 strong that the boy continues on
after exhausted nature is calling out
for him to stop. 1t is a fine spirit and
has done much for all our boys from
the standpoint of persiste1cy. But
the risk is there. nevertheless.