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Identifier: outing63newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: indexed as 1885 (1880s), but in fact certainly after July 6, 1912
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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the athletic field rests. They have been properly handled from the time they first began to go to school. Many have remarkably good physiques, and some of them will be better than fair performers within a few years. Lack of knowledge of the principles of proper training is not confined to Russia. Germany has, with the usual Teutonic thoroughness, learned a great deal about the proper method of preparation within the past twelve months, but less than two years ago the ignorance was so pronounced as to be amusing. And it is apt to be a considerable number of months before the German athlete learns to reconcile his appetite to the Spartan limits of the training table. Braun, the remarkable middle-distance runner from the Fatherland, maybe said to have discovered his ability on the track in spite of everything he could do to conceal it from himself. During his first trips to England, Braun consumed a midday meal on the day he was facing competition which would have put an ordinary man to sleep. Even at
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J. J. SAARISTO, FINLAND Notable for proficiency in the ancient art of throwing the javelin, a graceful and difficult event in which Americans have not distinguished themselves.

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