Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1917 — FIND PHYSICAL WEAK SPOTS [ARTICLE]

FIND PHYSICAL WEAK SPOTS

Many Baseball Players Have Athletic Hearts and Flat Feet—Others Have Broken Toes. The physical examination for the army reveals the fact that a very large number of ball players are affected with athletic heart, which is a bar to enlistment. It is claimed that every man over twenty-five is troubled in that way. Then there are broken toes without number among the average players on the average team. There is also usually a broken leg or arm, crooked elbows, torn or misplaced ligaments and various other ailments. In one respect alone players will stand the test and that is eyesight.. It is certain that hardly a player under thirty-one in this. If he does he has succeeded in fooling his manager, since the slightest impairment of the vision ruin • him as a ball player. It probably would not be suspected, but many players will be rejected on account of flat feet For some reason probably half of the ball players lack normal Insteps. Bunions also are particularly common. Both the flat feet and bunions are caused by wearing baseball shoes, which have always shown a tendency to “remake” the feet in a few years.