Official handbook .. . IT. Malllson, PHYSICAL CULTURE CLUB OF NEW YORK FINIJSU 01 HURDLE RAbtt}, 19US. KYLE,WINNING. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 25 THE ALPHA PHYSICAL CULTURE CLUB By Conrad its inception, six years ago, the Alpha Physical Cul-ture Club of New York City has made remarkable progress. Congested city conditions cause fearful ravages caused bypneumonia and consumption. Statistics show that the mortalitydue to these diseases is greater proportionately among theNegroes in the North than among the whites. In the springof 1904, in disc
Official handbook .. . IT. Malllson, PHYSICAL CULTURE CLUB OF NEW YORK FINIJSU 01 HURDLE RAbtt}, 19US. KYLE,WINNING. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 25 THE ALPHA PHYSICAL CULTURE CLUB By Conrad its inception, six years ago, the Alpha Physical Cul-ture Club of New York City has made remarkable progress. Congested city conditions cause fearful ravages caused bypneumonia and consumption. Statistics show that the mortalitydue to these diseases is greater proportionately among theNegroes in the North than among the whites. In the springof 1904, in discussing these things with a few of our young men,Dr. John Morgan observed that the fundamental fact thattuberculosis cannot successfully attack a healthy pair of lungs,was quite disregarded. Physical exercise necessary to developand strengthen the chest and lungs was absolutely , although there were seventy thousand colored people inNew York at that time, and the big city fairly teemed withathletic clubs of all kinds, recreation centers, playgrounds, settle-ments, schools.
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