Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26
BY ALAN MACDONALD.

- VERY game has its champions.
l. Base ball its Babe Ruth. prize
ring It's Tunney, track its Pad
IL dock, golf its Hagen and its
Bobby Jones. billiards It's Hoppe,
even poker. pinochle and chess, not 10
say skat and backgammon, have their
noted bests. Still, to man from Mars,
any group Of humans In which champs
were mixed would look as much alike
as peas in pod. And to lesser players
and competitors the champs them
selves look irritatingly normal and alike.
What beaten runner. jumper or golfer
hasn't compared himself TO the particu-
larly great of his speciality and in
wardly asked, What has ne got on
me? I'm as big, as strong and as anx-
ious TO win. know as much and try
as hard. and yet, in the big tests, he
always has just little more on the
ball"
What mysterious quality. then, makes
your champion?
Or. w. G. Fralick. physician to the
New York Boxing Commission. whose
patients include all manner OF champs,
near champs and simple Would-bes Of
high publicity, maintains that the seat
Of the mysterious maker of champions
Is the ductless glands, especially the
adrenal and pituitary glands. These
mighty little bodies, as every reader Of
popular science knows, put out secre-
tons that have. to say the least marked
effect on human emotions, growth,
capabilitv.
THE adrenals, as the doctor calls
them. are fiat oval things, about an
inch and half long, that sit atop
mans kidneys. while the pituitary
glands are located at the base OF the
brain. LII his laboratory on West Seven.
tieth street DR.. Fralick has made ali
sorts Of experiments with glands. of
animals ana men. In a WORD. he says
The adrenais excrete the stuff OF which
| courage comes, and that II man had
no pituitary he would have no intelli-
gence, Thus he comes to the con-
clnsion that the Tunneys Hagens and
Inc rest are so and such because of
superior glands.
Take fighters" ne says, because
I've been mainly interested in that form
OF competition. Now I'm sure that
| Jack Dempseys adrenal glands are at
least sixth larger than normal. You
know how nervous the old champ was
before night Gradually his highly
sensitive mind and nervous system was
working him up 10 full realization of
dangef~~to his body himself, his title
IL rs danger that sets the adrenals TO
work. Al the right time they throw
INTO the blood stream A liquid that
drives the whole body at top speed,
makes II fight like fury. IL was his
superior adrenals that gave Jack The
power to put on those tearing assaults
that brought down the OK Willard
LlkeWlse. the adrenal secretion over
comes fatigue and gives endurance. 1t
was these extraordinary adrenals that
maze Dempsey superior 10 bigger
stronger men. Unfortunately. adrenals,
too, get old
Another example Of the same thing
II JACK Bharkey, who, ! think, Is the
pest heavyweight Of the day. Shsrkey
mas exceptional adrenala, too, and Is
capable OF tremendous drive and fury,
suth as would carry him beyond men
otherwise his equal But Sharkey IL
peculiar He is emotional and does not
Always md himself able TO concentrate
on the danger, the fight, on hand, His
NINA y on something else, as It was in
one OF ms earlier llekings. when his
child lay on Il bed OF severe illness. No
message 10 the adrenals goes out and
lhey 40 not do their stuff. Sharkey
ngnts libtiesaly. But, on the other hand,
take his recent go with Jack Delaney
The Canadian, He got his mind on
fghting that night, he realized that he
had 10 win. that his money making
reputation, everything was al stake
he became So reused the call went TO
ms adrenais He literally tore through
Delaneys defense and thrashed him IN
jig lime, lie was Dempsey.
Il v
+" E6, 1t Is The adrenals that supply
the basis for competitive spirit
Without which no athlete or player Of
games can win. all things considered
The pituitary? well. you've seen
these aluttons for punishment In The
ring, these sluggish. keep bnfing-in
| fellows who let themselves he pum~
meIed sometimes 10 the point Of en-
| ha,iEtinn or serious injury, Those fell
| lowe haven't sense enough or mind
enough 10 realize what Is happening
1 TO act AaneIy. But they ara not TO