The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
BASEBALL VALUE AS HEALTH GAMER Why a Fan Returns Thoroughly
 Tired NO NEED OF DOCTORS Every Muscle Brought Into PIay-How the Fan Breathes and Exercises
 His Lunes-Fan
 Sensible.

Baseball as an amusement for the spec tators and as a profession remunerative to players is daily exploited in the pub lie prints but baseball as a fresh air cure, health restorer and constitution builder has not been properly recognized by the medical profession or the ruthless employer. It should be more generally understood that the game Is one of the finest spring medicines and one of the most excellent forms of physical culture. It is the only safe and reliable form of physical culture that can be taken for the most part in a sitting posture and without conscious effort, says the New York Telegraph. IL is therefore of in calculable value to countless thousands of persons who could not be persuaded to undergo the fatigue of exercise with h. dian clubs, who would as soon strike a lady as to pound a punching bag, and who would perish mserably at 40 rather than take 10 tennis or cross-country walk ing. This should be borne in mind by employers of sedentary classes, and much rope possible should be given to the baseball-going office boy and clerk.
 1t Pays to Laugh.
 Laughing is the finest exercise for the abdominal muscles. Who laughs as the fan laughs when tho n.d o4seman fails 10 connect with a ball and two men on lilt ilOilc lcdIl SNOTt ATel up a ROOu precipitation" says the family doctor and your liver will not shirk It's duty. Who gets up a profuse and evenly distributed precipitation, if not the man who sits upon a hot pine board and is cooked through and through like planked shad, although he Is oblivous of his discomfort?
 Deep breathing is the best lung reno vator and chest builder. Who takes so deep a breath as the fan whose eye Is 10 e-1ba haf rnn fal into the hands of the enemy in the field and make a three-bagger an unrellized dream? And who expels the last bit of breath from the lobes of his lungs with such force as does the ecstatic fan when the fly Is muffed?
 Sensible to Be Fan.
 There is no better method of making the blood bound through the veins than simple, joyous yelling. According to a physical culturist every one should oc- casionally get out in the woods, where there is no danger of arrest for disorder ly conduct, and yell. How much more sensible to ride to the ball park In a comfortable street car and sit down and yell with ones fellowman where compe- tition breeds ambition to excel
 Waving the arms and rising upon the toes Is advocated by physical culturists as means of strengthening the legs and arms and back and chest. Who rises upon his toes and waves his arms with such vim and vigor and exercises all his mus cles at once with such abandon as the man who believes that the umpire should be rended limb from limb and trampled in the dust, and is striving with all his might to incite a riot in the name of free dom and fair play?
 Among the beneficial forms of physical culture certainly must be included that man gets by regularly attending the base ball game, and the office force, at this time of the year needs nothing so much as physical upbuildng.