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 better he will be. Long and gradual training is better than short and severe reductions. Overa long course, when an untrained man once finds nature fail him, more ground will be lost than over a short course : cela va sans dire: but that is no argument against being thoroughly fit for even a half-mile row. The shorter the course, the higher the-pressure of pace, and the crew that cracks first for want of condition—loses (ceferts paribus). Athletes of the running path will agree that it is as impor-

tant to train a man thoroughly for a ‘quarter-mile race as for a three-mile struggle. Pace kills, and it is condition which enables the athlete to endure the, pace.

Smoking is, as every schoolboy knows, forbidden in training. However, fvo formé, the fact must be recorded that it is illicit. Tt spoils the freedom of the lungs, which should be as elastic as possible, in order to enable them to oxygenate properly the extra amount of blood which circulates under yiolent exertions.

Aperients at the commencement of training used to be de