Show HOW TO BECOME A RUNNER I Ouo of tlo 3lixt llmtlliral fiertlir a I llo f tn Titlio tu tunning It I one of the beet of exercise exer-cise for the whole body It rounds out a hollow chest drive the oxygen Into the fartbeet aircells of the lung wonderfully won-derfully Increase their capacity and develop the leg thigh stomach end nalst muscle Hut It must bo learned just as shuntIng swimming and bicycling bicy-cling have lo bo learned and there ara two thing that mUll be kept In mind by the learner The first Is whether In sprinting distance or crosscountry running to run entirely on the ball of the foot or aa they say on the track OH up on your toes Ily striking on the ball of tho foot which la I a tort of natural springboard the runner tnke4 a longer stride and the spring that he get enable him to lift hla foot more rapidly and repeat the strIde more quickly than Iho runner who ROCS flatfooted flat-footed A 1 length and rapidity of stride are what give speed In running It follows that n flatfooted runner can never be a fast one Another reason against pounding away flatfooled la that Ihe hellcat mechanism of the ankle an-kle knee and hip la I jarred and maIn ma-In time bo Injured I The second point for a runner to obtcno Is his method of breathing Ilreatho through bath the floe and mouth Nearly every boy when he first begins to run hat the Insane In-sane Idea that all the breathing mutt bo done through the nose There was never a greater mistake When n boy run his heart heals much faster than It does ordinarily and pumps out just ao much moro blood All this must ho aerated or purified by air from his lungs The oppression thot ono feel when beginning lo run It duo to the lungs demanding more air for the extra ex-tra quantity of blood which the heart U tending out Nature has looked out for this and provided a nay by which air can bo furnished to the lung very rapidly It Is I a very simple way anil consists of merely opening tho mouth Ilrentho then through the now In or dinary life at much aa possible but when you are running or cxcrcttlng violently open the moutli and take In air In deep rapid breaths not gulping U In through tIle mouth alone but letting let-ting thIn mouth nnd note hao each their share Take as long a atrldo aa possible but without overbalancIng tho body lIen the body slightly from the hips for If It bo litld too erect tho ttrldo will be shortened Let Iho bent arms titltiR easily and naturally n little above Ito level of tho hips atvlnglng out and back nlth otcrr sImIle This herbs the muscles mus-cles loose prevents them from becoming becom-ing tired to easily aa they would If held rigid and balances Ibo body totter tot-ter Talus especial pains to keep the body from being stilt let It awing na easily and Illhely ns possible lu sprinting tho ttrldo It shorter and more rapid than In longdlatanco running run-ning and n sprinter usually runt with body thrown farther back In bIte different dif-ferent form from the long easy lope of the dlstnnco runner St Nicholas |