Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1906 — EXCESSIVE PRACTICE FATAL TO ATHLETE. [ARTICLE]

EXCESSIVE PRACTICE FATAL TO ATHLETE.

Hammond, Ind., April 19. Clarence Tilton, a popular high school athlete, is dead at St. Margaret’s Hospital, in this oity. as a result of a strain he sustained while throwing hammer in practice for the State meet next month at Crawfordsville. It was Tilton’s passion to win tnis event, And he practioed constantly. Doctors say it caused his death, bringing on appendicitis. He was operated on. Tilton was seventeen years old and a noted athlete. He was captain of both the football and basketball teams of the Hammond high school for two years, and it was due to his brilliant playing last season that Hammond won the northern Indiana high school championship. He was president of the junior class and a brilliant student. Tilton is the second Hammond high school pupil to die within six months owing to over indulgence in athletics. Miss Marjorie Jackson, former captain of the girl’s basketball team, contracted a fatal illness from the effects of hard Paying.