Show one of most moat healthful sports old timers who recall with reminiscent ini scent thrills the six day heel and toe walking matches of four or five decades ago will find interest in a defense of that gentle pastime which it seems was recently tra deuced bya by a physician who called it a clowning act A correspondent of the new york sun comes forward to assert that it Is a manly sport and much more healthful than running which he says bays weakens the hearts nna and shortens the lives of its devotees As instances of the healthfulness of walking he ment mentions lons edward payson weston who lived to be nearly ninety john ennis who died at the age of eighty seven about it a year ngo ago dan oleary who Is still living and others whose names were as celebrated in the as are the names of cf our present day olympic champions tills this department dabbles infrequently in sports it Is far from vie the present purpose to urge a recrudescence des dese cence ence of the professional walkers of another lay day however bringing up the subject may remind all of us of cf something we have largely forgotten in these days of motor cars and weekly street car passes that Is that walking whatever its merits as a sporting attraction la Is mighty healthful exercise and that if we were to do more of it we should probably live longer and be happier milwaukee sentinel |