Show KEEPING WELL W SPECTATOR ITIS DR FREDERICK R GREEN edkor editor of HEALTH nou MARSHALL said bald that what tom this country needed was a good five ave cent cigar what it needs deeds more la Is a good game in which anyone and everyone can take part we are buttering as a nation from what the health commissioner f one of our largest cities very aptly calls abec tato itla ritts there are too few playing and too many occupying grandstand and bleacher seats during the beau beaff I 1 days of summer bummer thousands ot of men most of them middle aged many I 1 of them too fat and with muscles chati that are crying for exercise sit on abel the benches beaches and watch a few other men I 1 play when fal fall I 1 crimes comes and the se a bou a mm TUB same men sit in the grandstand and watch 22 men play football or it may bs be a wrestling match or a boxing contest or it a six bis day bicycle race or a billiard tournament A few men are doing the work thousands are looking on the players are trained to the minute to be a star baseball player or a crack halfback they have developed their bodies far beyond the needs of present day life this means that their hearts are twice as large as ag they need and that by middle life when they ought to be in their prime they have fatty instead of muscular hearts athletes generally the dla young college stars or professional they go at about forty or forty five the looker on take any chances of a tatty fatty heart ile he has lila 1118 tat fat around his waist ills his muscles are flabby and he have a good sweat from muscular exertion once a year so the 18 ball players or the 22 football all men overwork and shorten their lives acore to amuse the thousands of spectators t who and shorten theirs sounds silly billy it it la IS the object of games Is not to produce stars any more than the object of eating Is to produce men who can eat tour four times as much food as the average man our present system of athletics Is killing oft off our picked young men tit at a time when they should be in their prime the hundreds of thousands of spectators who pay to sit still and sea see other men work when they should be working themselves are kidding themselves you cant leep fit by u a tcheng another man work any more than you can keep strong by watching another man eat cant some wide asako american in nent a universal game we need it la in our schools and colleges and more than all in our everyday every day lives |