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With Dick Hyland,. Los Angeles Times

-. . A reeent thought, probably provoked by the fact that we are
now passing from the season of one sport to that of several others,
was that there is_not, after all; sucha great difference between
the playing of various sports, In most all of them, as Illinois’
Prof.Coleman Griffith has pointed out, learning, habit, memory,
-sight, hearing, muscular feel, thinking, emotion, determination,
resolution, concentration, attention, selection ond imagination
have a place, The more of these things you possess, and the better -.
you use them, the closer you are to being the champion of. your sport.
and no one was ever a champion of any sport without having all of
them to some degree and. some of them to a great degree,

The more familiar you become with any game the easier it is
to recognize the application of these mentioned besic qualities to
the: playing of thet game. rerhaps we méey not cnalyze things but
may, instead, simply know and appreciate that. DiMeggio can hit the
ball, that Bobby Riggs is a master of baseline play, that Davey
O'Brien and Don Hutson would be. one whale of a pass combination,
that Joe Louis is a champion, but that Gene Tunney was a better
one, that Johnny Weissmuller was related to a fish and the Trojans
have a good basketball team, — ee

WANT TO BE & CHAMPION?

Every athlete mentioned, indeed, every piayer in every gare,
has used identical basic qualities but expressed them in dirferent
ways, as called for in his sport, It may take jus. as much courage,
alertness, co-ordination and learning to stand over a» OK stove
“all day as it does to stand under a falling punt ior tue seconds.
So, perhaps, there are games AND games to which the basic qualities
apply. &. od beso sq: |
q Incidentally, to put forth a personal belief based upon expe-
rience, no persons possess these qualities 40 the exclusion of
other persons, All of us can learn to use every quality used by a
champion, How well we train ourselves determines how close we may
‘come to being champions ourselves, Fresent prep school athletes
should learn that before all else. Leen te

AVPERFECT EXAMPLE |.

pn unforgottable incident in the 1932 Clympic Games proved
Georgia. Coleman a champion, A beautiful girl, who will be just

as happy if her name isn't mentioned here, was giving Georgia a
‘licking off. the 10-foot board, She came to her pet.dive, a dif-
ficult thing she usually did perfectly, It wes, in fact, too easy,
because she flopped the dive badly. Sne forgot (memory) whatshe

had learned, broke her habit, did not look at the board, failed to
feel. she was wrong, did not determine to do as she knew she could,
failed to concentrate, let her attention wander; and she undoubtedly

- aid these things because her imagination had grasped what it meant

to be licking Georgia Colemanand becoming the champion of the world,
She thought the wrong things. : Ce eee ;
Georgia Coleman, with the full pressure on her, stepped to
the board and knocked off two of her best dives to win the cham-
nionship - - @s usual, She used each of the basic qualities properly.

Continued,