Show One of I Most Healthful Sports timers Old who recall with reminiscent remInIscent reminiscent rem rem- thrills the six day heel and toe walking matches of ot four or five decades ago gO will find Interest in a defense of that gentle pastime which it seems was recently traduced traduced traduced tra tra- by a physician who called Ita it ita ita a clowning acLA act acL A correspondent of the New York Sun comes forward to assert that itis It ItIs Is 18 a manly sport and much more healthful than running which he says Bays weakens the hearts and shortens shortens shortens short short- ens the lives of ot Its Us devotees As Instances instances instances In in- stances of the healthfulness of walking walkIng walkIng walk- walk Ing he mentions Edward Payson Weston who lived to be nearly ninety John Ennis who died at the thease age ase of seven eighty cn about a year ago Dan OLeary O'Leary who ho Is still living and others whose names were as celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- In the SOs as are the names of ot our present day Olympic cham This department d dabbles infrequently infrequently in sports It Is far from the present purpose to urge a recrudescence recrudescence recrudescence of the professional walkers of another da day However bringing up TIp the subject may remind all nIl of us of something we have ha largely forgotten forgotten forgotten forgot forgot- ten In these da days s 's of motor cars and weekly street car passes That Is that walking whatever er its merits as asa asa asa a sporting attraction is 18 mighty healthful exercise and that If It we we were to do more of it we should probably live longer and be happier Milwaukee Sentinel |