Oct. 13.
The accounts of the Athletic Stadium, athletes in the pink of cond have been valiantly assailing and smashing records, show what good training can achieve. The track athlete lays great stress on training. Just now, in Shanghai, the streets at dusk o¢- casionally show a variation, in the usual traffic medley of rickshaws, trams, buses, motor-cars, pedestrians in the shape of scantily clad and wiry young men training for the forthcoming international walking competitions. Soccer men train. Rugger men ought to but so often do not, judging from the puffing and panting of some of them after ten minutes' play. The bookshops show that bridge-players train—by exhaustive study of various authorities who manage to camouflage the methods of
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