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Herb, you have been coaching swimming for a number of years. Why do you con-
Sider swimming one of the important body=building sports?

Well, Dr. Allen, you know tho small boy says that "swimming is the only exor-
cise that loaves a fellow clean". The sensation of man gliding through water
is soothing to the nervous system. Many physicians consider swimming the
safest and most boneficial form of oxercise. The heart and lungs are favor-
ably situated, which lessons the danger of straining the heart, thus siding
in circulation. Tho position of the body in correct swimming is horizontal.

Yos, and Herb, lot's not overlook this very important point: President Frank-
lin D. Roosovelt has focused national attention on the Warm Springs, Georgia,
Foundation in his groat fight in overcoming tho devastating effects of in-
fantile paralysise Physicians have found that by immersing the pationt in
water the treatment of poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis is immeasurably
hastened. This treatment is one of the first aids in re-establishing the
nervous and muscular coordinations so necessary to the paticnt in regonor-
ating the nerve cells in tho antorior horns of tho spinal cord. The child
afflicted with infantile paralysis is able many timos to use his muscles in
water when unable to activate himself othorwise. Theso bodily movements in
water aid in regenerating nervous and musculer tissues.

We had a good oxample of that right here at the Univorsity of Kansas a fow
years ago, Dre Allens. Do you remember Harold Denton, the Summerfield Scholer
and president of the men's student council, who used to swim in our pool to aid
in his great fight against poliomyelitis? He also spent several summors at

the Warm Springs Foundations

Yes, I romember Harold very well. But we have been talking about the bene-
ficial aspect of swimming. Do you think swimming has a recreational value,
Herb?

Recreational aquatics is taking its place in the swimming world. It is
rather a new phase, but it includes fancy swimming and sculling, stunt and
comic diving, partner contests, group stunts, team games, tag games, mass
games, and so forthe .Tho swimming public is composed of human beings all
the way from one and two-year-olds up to men end women of 60 and 70 years
of Af0.

By the way, Horb, didn't Jim Raport swim on your varsity team here in 1935?
Yes, he did, Doctor, and he mado all-Big Six Conforence honor toame

Jim, you are a modest fellow, but you tell us about your ovent, and what your
time Was.

Well, Dr. Allon, my race was the 200 yard breast stroke. As to my time for
the event, I suppose you mean my best timo. Well, that was 2:49. at tho
beginning of the swimming season my time was 3:15, so you can readily sce
that work and plenty of it sliced off 26 seconds.

Well, that's fine, Jim. But you know they havo streamlined that stroke now,
and they call it the butterfly stroke, don't they, Herb? Tell us something
about this butterfly stroke.