Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 104

. 10 SCENGE NEASRES ATHLETES ABLIY Can Tell by Physiological Study What Branch of Sport a Man Is Fitted For. e Br Science Service SOUTHAMPTON, England.—What kind of sport a student is most likely to excel in may be determined by a physiological examination, according to Prof. A. V. Hill of London Univer- sity. In giving the presidential ad. dress before the physiological section of the British Association for the Ad. vancement of Science, in session here, he showed curves, based on many years of experimentation, from which it 1s possibie to tell how many yards n run without exhaustion a man ca and what is his best speed. He finds that this depends chiefly upon the ability to apply sufficient oxvgen from the alr and to dispose of the products of combustion accumulating in the muscles from exertion. The oxygen used by the body is the meas. ure of the energy expended. One liter of oxygen, about one quart, would be sufficient, if it could be used with a hundred per cent efficiency, to raise a weight of 1 ton to a height of 7 feet. May Borrow Oxygen. In running. the oxygen needed in creases as the square or cube of the speed. That is, running twice as fast requires from 4 to 16 times as much vien per minute. A man taking 240 steps minute may consume § liters of oxygen a minute, while if he speeds up to 280 steps he mav requir liters. But a runner may for « short time consume more XY gen than he can breathe in. just as & man for a while may spend more than his income. An athlete, for in stance, may have a maximum intake of 4 liters a minute and be capable of running into debt for oxygen to the extent of 15 liters. If then he was running at a speed requiring 5 liters of oxygen a minute, he would have to draw on his reserves at the rate of a liter a minute, and at the end of 15 minutes would be exhausted pis possibility of thus overdraw ing one’'s oxygen income depends upon @ mechanism of the muscle by which lactic acid, the sour milk acld, may be accumulated to be oxidized off when the exercise Is over. The muscles, therefore, serve as storage batteries for energy to be drawn upon in an emergency and recharged when the man has leisure to catch his breath agzain. The inability of women to match the highest athletic records of the men is due to their lesser energy reserve. Women may have as much skill as men, but on the average they can expend in a given time 67 per cent of the energy avallable to men Dr. Hill suggests: “An enterprising woman athlete who ‘wants to break a record should avoid the 300 meters; she would be well advised to try the 500 meters Mechanics of Jumping. The scientific study of the feats of trained would that For me- athletes discloses facts have appeared Incredible. 2 Hill of the h jumping ““Paradoxical as it may ssible for an object to pass over a bar while its center of gravity passes beneath; every particle in the ohject may go over the bar and yet the whole time its center of gravity may be below. A rope running over a pulley and falling on the other side is an obvious example. It is con- ceivable that by suitable contortions the more accomplished high jumjers clear the bar without getiing centers of gravity above or ap- bly above it. Let us calculate, however, on the assumption that the center of gravity of a jumper just clears the bar. The world record high jump is 6.61 feet, the center of gravity of the performer being pre- sumably about 3 feet high at rest. He raises it, therefore, 3.61 feet into the air, from which we may calculate that the whole time occupied in the jump is about 0.96 second. Seeing the amazing complexity of and the skill involved in the rapid movements and adjustments involved in a record high jump, it is striking that ail those events can occur within a time of less than 1 second.” PILGRIMAGEV:I'U MECCA COSTS $500 FOR MORO Coui.tless Beggars Line Way From Zamboanga to Mahometan Holy City. The story of a Moro's vilgrimage to Mecca, showing the entire expenses from Zamboanga to the Mohametan holy city, which amount to approxi- mately $500 per Individual, has just | been received from Mindanao, says the Manila Times in a recent issue. “From Cotabato to Zamboanga the passage money was $3. From Zam- wango to Singapore it was $11.50. At Singapore we went to Shelk House, Here we paid $35 each and | we could stay as long as we liked That is until the steamer came to take us on. We were furnished with two meals free of charge, the rest of the time we boarded in the mar- ket place. .“From Singapore we embarked for Jeddah. There were a lot of other pilgrims on the boat from all ports of Malaysia. We called at Penang, where a’'lot more joined. All togeth- ;, when we left Penang that steam- had 1,600 pilgrims on board. We paid $162.50 from Singapore to The steamer did not fur- nish us with food. We took our own supplies with us, as well as cooking utensils. The steamer furnished us with water and wood and we cooked our own food. Sometimes there would be from 300 to 400 fires cook- ing_at once in the between decks, each party cooking for themselves. “It was a long trip across the ocean. For days and days we saw nothing but the sea and the skles. At last we stopped at a place called seem, it is Perim. liere we took on large quan- tities of coal. This was about 13 days after we left Penang. Some ships take much longer, but our ship was fast. om Perim we went led Kamasia, the quar- antine port for Jeddah. Here the doctor Inspected us and we were all STEAMSHIPS. \F YOU HAVEN'T READ SYNTHETIC SiM 'L LET YOU TAKE VT, IT'S GREAT, Boox 1 WANT To RECOMMEMD SYNTHETIC Stie. \F. You.CARE To READ (T« JLL LET YOU HAVE ™Y CoRy S0RRY, BUT i |v_£ 601'/_\ B(_l_)_K N ANMD VLU LEND 1T You \F — - TWO TOWNS CLAIMING GIBBONS AS NATIVE Tercentenary of Famous Music Composer Revives Rivalry Be- tween Oxford and Cambridge. Correspondance of the Associated Press OXFORD, England, August 15— The tercentenary of Orlando Gibbong, one of the most famous of Tudor musicians and composers, has re- vived the old claims which both Ox- ford and Cambridge make as his native town 1t has long been known that Gib- hons hecame a chorister at King's Chapel, Cambridge, at the age of 12 and that Cambridge gave him a de- gree in music when, at the age of 21, he became organist to the Chapel Royal, and these facts were taken as disproving the Oxford claim. By ac- cident a chance searcher in the records of the City Church of Oxtord has found an entry of the baptism of Orlando Gibbons under date of De- cember 25, 1583, and as the name is no usual one it seems certain that the entry refers to the great church composer. In his own time Gibbons was known more as an organist than as a com- poser, for he had “the best hand in England.” His compositions are few, but they are declared unsurpassed in dignity, anthems, “Hosanna" lasting, propriety and_beauty. Oh, Clap Your Hand: and “Almighty and Ever- and his madrigals, “The Sil- " and “Oh, That the Learned " are regarded the high points of the ancient, simple and musical art of England. Honolulu's Population Increases. Correspondence of the Associated Press. HONOLULU, August 16.—Annual preliminary population estimates com- piled by S. W. Tray, sanitary engineer for the Board of Health, reveal that the population of Honolulu has prob- ably reached 100,000. The estimates are compiled from the health board's statistics covering births, deaths and arrivals and departures throughout the islands _TOURS. TOLEDO BLUE JAY EATS OUT OF CAPTOR’S HAND Cellar Furnace Pipe Seems Exact- ly to Suit Him for Sleeping. Toledo possesses the only. blue jay captivity that sleeps on furnace plpes, says the Toledo Blade. He walks, squawks and flies like any other blue jay, but he's tame, he's tame. Blueie—or Blooey, the spelling is im- materfal—eats corn out of his master’ hand. The bird's young friend is Jack S-erling, 14 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sterling of 3936 Hazel- hurst avenue. Jack carries a Blade route, and puts in his spare time showing Bluele around. The blue jay was roosting on a porch roof near Jack’s home Sunday afternoon, and had a tired and hungry look. Jack noticed the forlorn aspect of the bird and offered him a plece of candy. Blueie sampled it and then waited while Jack went into his house for breadcrumbs. Bluele followed his benefactor around the rest of the day, sitting on his shoulder or in his hand. Jack showed Bluele to his chamber in the basement, and the new member of the family made himself comforta- Lle on a furnace pipe. Next morning Bluele flew out and squawked a good morning to Jack. Throughout, the day he followed the in boy. The jay tolerates other persons, but doesn’t want to be handled by them. He rests quite contentedly, though, in Jack's hand. downy youth, but fiies well squawka powerfully Home, Sweet Home! From the Arkansas Utility News. am satisfled on one thing at last. I found where my husband spends his evenings,” remarked Mrs. Gad- about. “You don't say so, dear: how did you find out?” questioned the excited Mrs. Gossip. “T stayed at home one evening last Bluele 13 a and week and found him there,” answered the satisfied lady. FRANK’S 4th Awwaal Cruise De Luxe ITERRANEAN EGYPT—PALESTINE Madeira, Sp: Greece, Ttaly, Si ohatierciNew’ Cunard S. S Limited to 400 Gu The cruise of ihe “Scythia’ it Js Uneurpassed. Pre-arrange puie ¥ Free-stop-over privilege i Complete Literature on Request FRAN come an annu ‘shore excursions at every port inelue Finest hotels and the best of e: t of the seagon. in Egypt and Pal urope, in Prompt Gibraltar, Algiers, Tunis, Constantinople,’ . Riviera, Monte Carlo, France, England Lve. N. Y. “SCYTHIA” Jan. 26—67 Days Less than Half Capacity) al claasic. I oy respect 3 in the Unusually long stay, at the g _return by any Cunard Ressrvation Insures Choice of Locat Apply to E. I. OBER, 1 Woodward Bld¢., Washington or. on, (&) ORK ROUND THE WORLD CLARK’S 6th CRUISE, JAN. 20—128 Days, $1250 te $3000 getting mighty impatient to go on. “From Jeddah we pald $6 for mules to take us to Mecca. Two persons can ride on one mule. The road is Jjust strewn with beggars. Not hun- dreds or thousands, but just so many that you cannot count them. You are bound to give to every one you meet. Who would not give liberally when 80 near Mecca? ‘We stayed in Mecca about two weeks—visited all the places of wor- #hip and prayed night and morning and sometimes in between. “It takes 12 days to go on a mule from Mecca to Marina, where Ma- homet's tomb lies. It is a very te- dious journey really, two persons on a mule traveling through this hot, desolate country, but pilgrims are so intent on where they are going that any discomforts are turned into pleasure. “One thousand pesos is just about sufficlent. Five of our party—three ©0ld men and two boys—died on the pilgrimage, and we lett three behind in Mecea who were recelving Ine struction for the priesthood.” 20,000 By specially chartered sumptuous new Cunard oil-burner “LACONIA,” tons ; personally managed by 5 Mr. Clark. A floating palace for the trip, 26 days in Japan and China, Peking included; Manil, Java, India; Athens, Nlpln, lonte Carlo, éb(“.: l'n,'.! days in Cairo, .Y. CLARK'S 22nd CRUISE, JAN. 30—62 Days, $600 o $1700 == MEDITE Bg l.xechlly chartered brand-new Cunard ofl-burner ‘TRANSYL- VA ,”” 17,000 tons; 15 days in Egypt and Palestine; Lisbon (Madrid) Tunis, Spain. Italy, Cormtflmp NORWA AND WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN CLARK’S 2ad CRUISE, JUNE 30—S3 Days, $550 to $1250 * By specially chartered new Cunarder “‘LANCASTRIA,’’ 17,000 tons. Lisbon, Spain, Tangier, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Germ: Times Building Frank C. Clark jermany. New York Originator of Round the World Cruises. Established over 30 yonrs. n OBER’'S STEAMS 1499 H 8t. N. Phenes VAN WICKLE TOURIST AGENCY. 808 HIP AND W. TOURIST AGENCY, Main 3347-3348. 18th St N.W. SALES SHOW GERMAN POTASH TRADE HUGE Vast Increase Over Pre-War Bulk Is Indicated by Reports of Production. |niversary two days hence, wrote him- cia, the Balkans, Mexico and else- ‘Where. As to the competitive menace likeiy to emanate from the newly discov- ered deposits in other parts of the world, opinions in German potash cir- cles are divided. The heads of one group ridicule the idea of these new potash finds proving competitive in the near future, since, in consequence ‘of "the extraordinary potash demand, the reopening of abandoned pits is being considered. On the other hand, the heads of the other group, repre- sented by Director Rossberg of the powerful Winterhall concern, are in- clined to view this prospective for- eign competition with some uneasi- ness. To counteract such a danger, per- haps, the Winterhall concern has started the chemical refining of pot- ash on a large scale. At Kaiserroda, on the Werra, a chloride of potas- slum factory is belng erected. at:the cost of several million doliars, which Promises to become one of the'largest ¢hemical enterprises in Germany. Had a Poor Memory. From the Topeka Capital. . . Germans are methodical. Otto Kuehne, -Berfin « citizen, afraid. he would forget his wife’'s birthday an- gelf a letter and mailed it for a re- minder. ] e ¥ The letter became lost ‘and arrived four’ years later—just in time to re- mind him of another of his wife's birthday anniversarfes. In ‘the end German thoroughness wins. But tyhat we really should like:to know: ix did He remember her birthdays durfng th STEAMSHIP: Fisherman’s Special Friday to Monday Personally Conducted Two (2) Days’ Sport At Lake Smith and Lynhaven Inlet Fresh and Salt Water Fishing at Its Best Including_Transportation, m and Hotel Accommoda: "~ $16.50 Party Limited Call Main 3760, Branch 14 Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co. .. .Sept. 1 Jl0et 18 Oct. 29 GRACE LINE 10 HaneverSq.,N.T.C. Correspondence of the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 14—Potash con- cerns are among the very few Ger- man industries that have not suf- fered materially as a result of the post-war financlal and industrial crisis. Phe noy only have not suf- fered, but have succeeded in almost tripling their business. During the first six months of the year 1925 the amount of potash sold by the German industries amounted to’ 730,000 tons, which is almost three times the amount disposed of during the same period of the preceding year, and also represents a vast in- crease over the total of 520,000 tons of the pre-war record year of 1913, Every ounce of the stock left over from last Winter has been sold and all the concerns today are working at full blast. 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