Athletic Training

xxvm INTRODUCTION tion of muscular intelligence, and especially of that inherent vitality and ruggedness which he so sadly missed in his own person. With one possessing these qualities he would take infinite pains, counselling and advising, jollying, bullying, or ridiculing him, as the temperament of the athlete seemed to require, for with him the merely "good" was ever the enemy of the "best." No one. could read character so well or apply prescription so well. He knew the value of sympathy. The hand laid on the shoulder of the discour– aged loser, and the voice choked with real feeling, went far to bind to him every man who had been his pupil in victory or defeat. Small and slight in body, his courage was gigantic. Nothing daunted him. His posi– tive manner and assumption of infallibility were the chief sources of power to him. He could impart to others that invincible cour– age and dogged determination that he him– self used in his struggle against a delicate constitution and increasing infirmities. He had a confident belief in the value to health of athletic exercises, and if he was oc– cupied with the training and preparation of