Report of Research committee Cont'd.

At the start of this unfavorable criticism of our (revised)
same, I immediately asked several coaches of our larger ins-
titutions, with medical centers attached to have physicians con-
duct tests over the period of the season. To these requests I have
received but one reply, but I believe that both Mr, Lonberg of
Northwestern and Mr. Bunn of Stanford have some interesting in-
formation about this, and I would sugzest that the chair call upon
them for this information at the conclusion of this report.

The report reccived by this committee was from Dr. H.C.Carlson.
It was as follows:- Quote-"Basketball Hearts. The new game of
Basketball has focalized public: attention upon the heart. This is
as it should be. The heart should be checked before such strenuous
demands are made upon it. And it might be added without further
comment herewith that e tuberculin test is also indicated for
varsity dasketball players. Varsity basketiall teams should display
superlative physiques and the dig game is not for defective in-
dividuals. The question arises if the ethlete lives more in a
shorter faster life than if he were to be passive over a longer
number of vears. Does he want to move more or merely vegetate?
Perhaps athletes shorten their lives in yenrs while oak trecs live
hundreds of years.

If an individual is not in ood physical condition he should
not play agressive basketball. There are other media through which
one can become outstanding. Choose a less strenuous field and as-
pire to be king, success clsewhere may be more important than in
basketball. The idea of good condition is to allow for increased
intensity of action, a faster rate of specd, and to carry on for a
sreater len:th of time, A man may push in the ordinary manner a
wheelbarrow of bricks over a distance of 100 yards, dump then,
and return to repeat the »vrocess over and over during a day if he
regulntes the rate of speed, A snrinter cannot run the same LOO
yards at top speed for an eight hour day.

Good physical condition in an athlete seems to be at present
emphasized »y the heart in basketball. Other factors including
muscular, respiratory, nervous, and digestive systems should be
considered but the heart has been singled out. If there is no
disease present the muscles of the heart acquire better condition
througzh work, For greater demands the heart builds up greater re-
serves. The student who plays baskctball goes through the sane class
activities as the student who is not engaged in athletics. The
athlete has built up a reserve upon which he may call. Both require
compensatory periods of reat.

A pointed parallol may be presented by the similar possibi-
lities of physical and financial reserve. Both are nice to have, yot
nerd ‘to build up if dissipated. The well conditioned athlete can
spend and regencrate quickly while a scdentary individual may spend
and get physical embarrasement, The rich man can spend and rocoup
readily while the poor man may svené and set financial anc social
embarrasenent. The poorly conditioned athlete cannot spend ore
than the sedentary stuient. The rich aan eannot honestly spend any
more than the poor man. The finely conditioned atnlete may run
himself into fatigue collepse. The well fixed financial individual
may spend himself into bankruptcy. In either case the developed
ability of each would play an important part in the recovery of
his rescrves.