The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-20
HYsTERIA OF THE SPORTS FAN

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 After all, 1t is in the grandstand that the casualties occur. It is the spectators arteries, not the play er's that must bear the brunt. And 1t is the arteries, not the nerves, that age damaged by repressed emotion. With the excitement of the spectator or fan at the ball. game or football game or the box ing match or wrestling match there is an outpouring of adrenin from the adrenal glands into the blood stream. Adrenin raises the blood pressure. It speeds up all the vital functions. Of the individual re- acts naturally to the emotion, well and good; he uses up the excess energy set free by the emotion, in fighting, running away, dancing about or otherwise exerting him. self vigorously. But usually the individual under the stress of emo- ton cannot, will not or does not do any of these primitive things. He just sits there and takes 1t out in imagination. The effect is compar- able with racing your automobile engine or throwing the belt off from a fiywheel.
 A smoke, chew or sniff of cigar cite, pipe, cigar, or plug or snuff raises blood pressure almost as markedly as does adrenin, and in addition tobacco has a narcotic ef- feet which helps the effeminate one to sit out the emotion, to resist the natural impulse to DO SOME THING, the impulse to the overt act, Or, in the parlance of the new sex, tobacco enables one to achieve nonchalance. But all this is at the expense of the arteries.
 Don't take this too seriously. It Is only or Doc Brady sounding off. Not an authority on anything. All I know is what real doctors tell me and what I pick up in my brow sings in ancient and modern medi- cal literature-and then once in a while give birth to more or less legitimate idea myself. I are quite fond of tobacco and a collector of pipes. I am telling you just what think of 1t. Take 1t or leave 1t. but for goodness sake don't exas- perate me any more with yarns about how your grampa started chewing as soon as he cut his back teeth and is still going strong. I fed Tony I the Wirish Terror an iodin ration, vitamins and every- thing and yet at the age of 12 years he applied for and was granted euthanasia.
 The vicarious thrill of sport is all right for any one who works or plays hard. It is all wrong for sedentary folk or for any one who Is troubled with what the new sex calls i'nerves." What the sedentary individual needs is exercise, active play or work. He needs to DO SOMETHING by way of diversion. recreation, vacation, change, stead ingy down his machinery, regulat- ing his metabolism. providing the OUTLET for the energy liberated by the emotions he has to repress or suppress in his daily occupation.
 Even in hospitals for the insane a job of actual or active participa- tion in game of baseball, tennis, bowls or exhibition drilling practice, has remarkable steadying or normalizing influence.
 1t Is among the idle class, the the folk who never do involving physical exer- tioh if they can possibly avoid 1t, that we encounter alleged ''ner- vousness' or nervous exhaustion. People who do honest work and | people who get their recreation DOING SOMETHING are rarely troubled with bad nerves"
 This is evolution, friends. Which | way are you going?
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