Show one of most healthful sports old timers who recall with rem rein Inise ent thrills the six day heel and toe walking matches of four or five decades ago will ciril interest in a defense of that gentle pastime which it seems was recently tra deuced by a physician who called it a clowning act 11 A col respondent 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 weakens the hearts and sart shortens the lives of its devotees A As instances of the healthfulness of walking he mentions edward weston who lived to be nearly near I 1 ninety john ennis who died at thy the age of eighty seven about a year ago dan oleary who la Is still living and others whose names were as celebrated tn in the SOs as are the names of our present day olympic champions this department dabbles infrequently in sports it Is far from the present purpose to urge a rec recrudescence r des dese cence ence of the professional walkers r us of another day Ilo however wever brin bringing gi n 9 up the subject may remind all of us of something we have hare largely forgotten in these days of motor cars and weekly street car passes that th t Is that walking whatever its merits as a sporting attraction I 1 Is m mighty agh ty healthful exercise and that it w we were to do more of it we should probably live longer and be happier milwaukee sentinel |