Show MEANS WORK CHICAGOS POLICE TO HAVE ATHLETIC ATH-LETIC TRAILING Will Be ToiiKt to Use Their Fists Instead of Their Clubs Will Also Study Hyvienc Watch For Their Wings to Sprout I CHICAGO Nov 20Chicagos policemen police-men are to be trained athletes and if the plans of Dr Joseph Hawley medical medi-cal director of the civil service commission com-mission carries they will soon be able to compete physically with the trained bobbies of Scotland yard Dr Hawley Haw-ley has secured the consent of both Mayor Swift and Chief Badenoch of the police departmtnt to the introduction introduc-tion of a system of athletics and drills in the department extensive in its scope and calculated to make active athletic awny men of the officers i The sysU TCI is to be Introduced in the I next ten day in every police station in Chicago and within two weeks there will be a wellequipped gym nadum provided for the exercise of the mel1 tF 4 Hawley will also distribute a k rnpn pamphlet on hygiene for police jnen and iTrtmsn and they will be 0 iv l 1 lI1W kJ > I questioned on its contents at regular intervals The principal object of t isis is-is to reduce the enormous sick roll of the two departments which is now a serious menace to their effectiveness It will contain all sorts of rules for the proper care of the body by men doing the kind of work done by policemen and firemen The Chicago police department will be the first to inaugurate such a system sys-tem The only thing that approaches it in any way Is the system in vogue at Scotland yard London There the officers have a trained boxer who assists them in the development of their muscles Every man is an amateur boxer and this system has proven so advantageous the men have been able to do away altogether with clubs which have for years been the most deadly of weapons in the hands of policemen with uncontrollable tempers Dr Hawley and others interested in-terested in the plan for Chicago hope to be able to accomplish the abolishment I eventually abolish-ment of policemens clubs in this city |