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Show I RUNS 10 MILES I IN 75 MINUTES I . The December number of the Am- I erlcan Magazine tells about a won- I ' derful old man who believes in run- I nlng for health. Tho writer says - about him: I "Colonel James L. Smith is a vet eran of tho Civil War. Ho is seventy-three years old; he lives in Detroit De-troit and never misses a day from his desk in ono of tho city's big automobile au-tomobile plants. Army surgeons havo pronounced him a physical specimen without a paralol, because, "Ho runs, or walks, five miles as a minimum, and ten miles as a maximum, maxi-mum, ovory day. "That is his understanding of tho secret of his youth. Ho dbes not claim that It is tho secret, for other people .necessarily but It Is the secrot for him. "Dotrolters no longer turn their heads whon they seo this wlilto-halrod wlilto-halrod man come ruuulng down the streets. At soventy-throe, ho can run ten miles in seventy-five minutes. At sevonty-threo ho can sprint faster than tho average youth of soventeon or nineteen. His dally work consists' con-sists' of directing tho duties of two Uozon messengers. These messong- L a rs rans' lu ngo' from rlfteea to y twenty years. There isn't ono who ' would attempt to outsprlnt the vet eran." |