| Show one of most healthful sports old timers who recall with reminiscent ini scent thrills I 1 a vie ho six day heel and too toe walking matches of 0 four or five decades ago wilf find interest in a defense of that gentle pastime which it seems was recently tra deuced by a physician who called it a clowning net act A correspondent of al the new york k sun bun comes forward to assert that it Is a manly sport and much more healthful than running which ho he says weakens the hearts and shortens the lives of its devotees As instances of the healthfulness of walking he mentions dward payson weston who lived to he be nearly ninety john ennis who died at the tha age agent f eighty seven about a year ago pan oleary who Is still 11 living v ing and others whose names were as celebrated in the as are the n ames of our present day olympic champions this department dabbles infrequently in sports it Is far from the present purpose to urge a reer recrudescence U des cence 0 of the professional walkers of another day Ifo however wever bringing up the subject may remind nil all of us of something we have largely forgotten in these days of motor cars and weekly street cor car passes that to Is that walking whatever its merits as a sporting attraction to Is mighty healthful exercise and that it if we were to do more of it wo we should probably live longer and be happier milwaukee sentinel |
