Allen-- Plumley-- Allen-- Plumley-- Allen-- Plumley-- You are oxactly right, Jay. Wo will discuss Dre James Naismith's findings upon high school athletes and that will show tho differonec. For tho pur- pose of illustration it might be woll for us to think of the United States Military Academy at West Point. The cadets in tho Army toam gonorally finish an academic college and then enroll at West Point for four more additional yoars. This is true of the Springfield Collegc. . Many boys play four years in high school and thon four years in college, anc por- hops the difforence in the results of the two tests was due to tho dif- ference in the ages of the two groups of playors. The wear and tear on tho older physical machine is too sovorce How lone ago did Dr. Naismith institute his series of investigations to find whether Dr. McCurdy's charge wes warranted or not? Well, Jay, back in 1930 Dr. Naismith took 9s a working besis the players entered in the annual Kansas State High School tournament which then was ‘held at tho Univorsity of Kansas. Every competitor undor wont a thorough physical oxamination. All the tests wore made by the Biochomistry Depart- ment of tho School of Medicine of the University of Kansas, which would vouch sefe for their accuracy. And strange to say that after tho fourth championshiv game the tests showed that the members of the Wichita High School team, the winners of the state tournament and later winners of theo National High School Championship at Chicago, wore in better physical condition then than at any time during the tournament. Of the monbers of the two teams that played for the championship, tho test of but ono man gave any indication of previous opinion that basketbe1l was too severe on hearts and kidnoys of tho normal high school boy. The findings arrived at by these research mon was that while you are robust and rugged the physique will stand up undor strain. Thon I guess it would be comparable to a new automobile stancing the strain. When the machine gots older it docs not function as well as it aid in its previous first class conditicn. Woll, I think that is a vory good illustrstion, Jay, end I believo that is the casicst way to explain it. at another time, in the intorests of the game of basketball, Dr. Naismith performed some very intcresting heart in- vestigations. This time he took for his clincial material a squac of young men with no previous expericnce in baskethall. For 18 woeks this group was given tho same daily fundamontal drills and tenm play that a group of regulars on the basketball squad received. Daily tracings of the heart, both before and after play, reveealed no incrense in size. In- deed, in some eases there wore decreases in the sizo of the heart. You know, many poople are of tho opinion thet Glenn Gunninchen's heart is large or hyportrorhicd, but I am told on very good authority thet the heart of Glem Cunningham, the great Kansas runner, is smallor than the normal sized heart. A heart muscle, to have tonicity on’? strongth, is not dependent upon size. Well, Dr. allen, many parcnts who qwetech thoir sons play cannot undorstand why the heart is not affected because jn their opinion their son is con- tinuously on the go. He is driving here ond thero, and it seems that thore is never a let-up in play. It sooms as if tho boys would literelly run their hearts out.