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Athletes are in danger.

So says the American Medical association, which met at Atlantic City last week.

They are threatened with arteriosclerosis -a big word which names a formidable disease. The overstrain of physical exercise--the cinder path, the baseball diamond, the football field-the theaters of strenuous life, cause the disease.

The doctors say the ailment is having an alarming growth. And it is incurable. Its symptoms are a stiffening and deterioration of the arteries, causing premature old age and a serious affection of the heart. It is declared that many of our college athletes are today as decrepit as This is not a new objection to athletics, but a warning which ought to Athletics, like everything else, should be temperate. It is not only a their grandfathers were at 70 years of age. be heeded by college authorities and trainers. popular feature of college life, but useful in the development of physical manhood.

But there is a limit. If the trainer permits his men to go beyond the limit into overstrain the means may defeat the very purpose for which they