The Washington times., 1927-11-17
Praise the Lord?
We Well May.

81 rOI praise the Lord for fearfuly and wOndsr-
fully made"
As the young rum Jump, wrestle throw kick the ball.
they little realize what marvellous machines they balanced
on two feet maintaining their balance with the aid Of little
carpenter level" drop of oil in chamber in each
They little what force they using in the hurdle
race yard DASH the long, dreary marathon
Prof A. " Hill an English student of mans construction
who won the Nobel Prize five years ago. have about
realized the LIMIT of athletic possibilities
Men that break the hereafter in the hundred
yard dash instance will break by hundredhs not tenth
of second Mans highest speed slow compared with that
of the flying machine going 300 miles hour But it is
marvellous when you consider that standing up
pushed by his feet keeping balance they hur him forward
foot pushing then the other.
When Charles w Paddock ran hundred yards $40
seconds he was running of 2 miles hour
than the early locomotives could go.
Professor Hill thinks that is pretty near the limit
The muscles are simply servants waiting for orders that
come through the
When man is set" for onehundredyard dash he can
start until his has heard the pistol the word Co
And with the best coodnated mind and muscles
it takes onetenh of second for the brain to send the word
Co down the spinal cord to the muscles of the legs and
feet There onetenh of second lost before the athlete
starts
sprnter running hundred yards in ten seconds
nine horsepower of energy.
That the strength horses be reserved and actually
used in ten seconds by the ra body of hundred and
thirty pound man, enough to make anybody praise the
Lord for giving such fearfuly and wonderfully made
bodies to live in.
Professor Hill thinks have about reached the limit of
speed because the faster go, the Tactic acid
product of muscular fatigue is manufactured muscles
spnter at full speed manufactures three four grams
of Tactic acid second Four of would be enough
poison to stop the athlete absolutely
Remember Also that in running most of the energy used
in eternal friction of the muscles Only small part actually
used to the body forward.
In long distance running much depends the runners
'oxygen-borrowng capacity"
stored up the we'll regulated body borrowed for the
violent effort Professor Hill puts it, then paid back later
running athlete depends almost entirely borrowed
oxygen, breathing makes little difference.
The greatest amount of oxygen that take
is about 32 quarts minute says Professor Hill The
amount that he store up his system is 13 quarts
So that short the most oxygen he hope for
1872 quarts Running at full speed he all that up
800 yards. Man is certainly very interesting machine
But Professor Hill may when he says that we
have about reached the maximum of speed
He overooks evolution the possibility increased strength
of tendons and of bone
sprnter starting puts terrific strain his ankles
1nstepS and tendons
In the British Natural History Museum they show you
bone taken from the front leg OF race horse, cut cosswise
1t looks like piece of solid ivory They show you similar
bone taken from the front leg of cart horse cut croswVe
Full of air holes, it looks like piece of sponge.
There is no knowing what evolution may develop we
fly through the Clouds explore the bottom of the get
rid Of heavy stomach of superuous muscles that we
don't need and develop better stomachs better muscles
If an athlete had the ability of flea he could lump over
skyscrapper. Why shouldn't evolution in time give man
the that has given the flea in jumping the
power that is given to the ant in carrying loads?
Evolution MIGHT produce jumping the widest
rivers lifting up and carrying elephants ease But we
not headed in THAT direction,
The increased strength apt to in the brain
WHERE IT IS NEEDED. big we'll developed brain in a
small body would be the ideal
fighter in recent story says that he admrs the
young lady because her body has five
spring
The of the future may be satisfied with only
and that small one.
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