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Show Pedestrlanlsm One of Most Healthful Sports Old-timers who recall with reminiscent rem-iniscent thrills the six day "heel and toe" walking matches of four or five decades ago will find interest in a defense of that gentle pastime, which, It seems, was recently traduced tra-duced by a physician, who called It "a clowning act" A correspondent of the New York Sun comes forward to assert that It is a manly sport and much more healthful than running, which, he says, weakens the hearts and shortens short-ens the lives of its devotees. As instances in-stances of the heaHhfulness of walking walk-ing he mentions Edward Payson Weston, who lived to be nearly ninety; John Enuis, who died at the age of eighty-seven about a year ago ; Dan O'Leary, who is still living, and others whose names were as celebrated cele-brated In the '80s as are the names of our present-day Olympic champions. cham-pions. This department dabbles infrequently infre-quently in sports. It is far from the present purpose to urge a recru-. descence of the professional walkers of another day. However, bringing up the subject may remind all of us of something we have largely forgotten forgot-ten in these days of motor cars and weekly street car passes. That is that walking, whatever its merits as a sporting attraction, is mighty healthful exercise and that if we were to do more of it we should probably live longer and be happier. Milwaukee Sentinel. |