Pebruary 7, 1945.

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when the stronger male was able te pursue and capture the female. . The
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in track.

Therefore, if track, the oldest game in the world, cannot attract
an enthusiastic following there is something wrong, and one of those things
is that track is not a team game but an individual sport. They call it a
team game, but as you pointed out in your colum, a fellow competes either
against himself or an individual, and it becomes an individual sport.
When a teammate on a team loses, the whole team loses, even though one man
may play such an outstanding game that if he were in track he would be a
champion, but he loses with his gang and that is the great impelling power
that draws spectators to the ringside or to the stadium, - because there
is a mass struggle.

Through the hundreds and thousands of years that the masses have
been struggling, a team game appeals to the mass more than an individual
contest. You remember the Greek who won the Marathon and fell dead after
- delivering the message. Of course it was a message of victory in war, if
I am correct in my memory. So distance ruming has always appealed, even
before the Marathon.

Now, just why dees not track draw? Because, as I said, it is an —
individual geme. The only teamwork in track is relays, and the baten put
teamwork in feotracing. If coaches were extremely wise they would have a
series of relays, and sandwich in the individual events as sideshows. I
was quick to see this back in 1925 when we founded the Kansas Relays. It