THE MODERN ATHLETE.
BETTER THAN ANCIENT GREEK.
“Tho modern athletes at the Olympic Games could run rings around the ancient Greeks,” declared Colonel Arthur Lynch, physician and author, and a graduate of Melbourne University, reports a London message. Rampling would have pulverised Dandes, tho Argive. Cornes would have run Arriehion off his legs. Eastman would have lost Ladas. Statues of Greek athletes show magnificent models of masculine strength and grace, but the moderns are superior. The Greeks were statuesque, but their system of training was unintelligent and their dieting too restricted. They had rare muscular development,'but were Blow and lacked vitality. The modern athlete is finer, with a more vigorous spirit of life pulsating in his arteries. The Greek boxing was brutal but slow. For a real thrill there’s nothing in Homer or Pindar comparable with A. G. Hales’s epio of the Jackson-Slavin fight.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 226, 24 August 1932, Page 7
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144THE MODERN ATHLETE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 226, 24 August 1932, Page 7
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