ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 6

ATHLETICS.

OF A GRIi'AT COACH.

In America recently that wclMtnown trainer of college athletes, Mko Murphv, was interviewed regarding schoolboy running and' training.. His views have been published widely in 'the Amen can press, and, incommen' ng upon the question', a New York paper s'ays: • "Mike" Murphy, the greatest coach ever connected with amateur athletics, says that in his experience as a college coach he has seen a great many college athletes who broke down in then; first or second vear because they had overdono athletics" while in preparatory schools. As a result they suftered from pulled tendons," and' other breakdowns, and wero forced to drop out of competition when they should have been at their best. Not even the most learned book-athlete, holding down a political job conned with athletics in.our public schools, will "ain much credit by contradicting a man like Murphy. No coach m tho world knows more than "Mike Murphy about the athletic game from beginning to end. ITis experience lias taught hiui that «ch*>olbov athletics should bo directed entirely to building-up a strong and athletic* body, and not to Hio winning of competitions and making of records. Schoolboy athlcUcs should bo more in the rne-of exercise than of competition. This is a thing that the bookatlilete, anxious to make a showing, doesn't know. In course of time those who direct things in tho school athletic world will bo wisei-or more carefulthan they are to-day, and we will have 1 very different system of school athletics.