Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-17
STRONG MEN ATHLETES
FOR HALF A CENTURY

gait of four and one-tenth miles per hour.
Apart from the fact that this was
very remarkable performance for even a
professional pedestrian In the prime OF
life, let alone for man on the verge OF
that by this feat Weston succeeded in
breaking the record he had established
for the distance forty-three years pre-
ton has since announced that on his one
hundredth birthday he is going to walk
from Philadelphia to New York city hall
thereby establishing a new record which
II don't like to brag," said Weston
but in my sixty-ninth year, on May 2S
Philadelphia to New York within twenty
four hours, covering a longer distance
and making better. time than | did forty
four years ago, when L was 25 years old
Forty Years Young
''I am well and strong in spite of my
being, beyond the age, when Or. Osler
this little jaunt from Philadelphia to
New York l was as supple as any man
of my age can ever expect to be, and a
great deal spryer than many men l know
who are twenty years younger.
Not an ache or pain only big appe-
tite for solid food to make up the five
pounds L had walked off my lean old
body.
My secret of keeping active and young
Is to keep in good condition all the time
| take little stimulant once in a while
never over the bar and never more than
one glass-just when l want it. [ was
never intoxicated in my life. AS for to-
bacco, | never use 1t.
Every day l walk ten, twenty or even
more miles, rain or shine, hot or cold.
Walk, never drink social glass, never
treat or be treated, eat egularly-sleep
six to eight hours regularly and don
'Then you will live long, be healthy
and happy. That is the way l am keep
dred years. old am going, to walk from
better time than ever"
recently created somewhat of a sensation
by remarking that a man should not be-
gin to plav golf before the age of thirty
five years. This implies that the more
violent sports may be -1ndulged in up to,
but not after that age
Now table has been compiled for uni
versity students in England indicating the
abandoned According. to it we may row
until we are sixty; play football up to
thirty; hockey must be abandoned at
thirtyfve; cricket at forty; and lawn
men at sixty.
G. Elliot Flint, the author of Power
and Health Through Progressive EXer-
else says it is is a mistake to give up
athletics because you are growing old or
even middle aged. He says a man at
thirty-five is as young as a horse is at
at fifty.
Exercise Secret of Long Life
But keep a ten-year-old horse pent up
in a stable, restrain a siX-year-old dog
from running, or chain a middle aged
elephant. and notice how little such
treatment will benefit its health. 1t is
a common experience that the three ami
mails at the ages above specified can do
harder work and have more endurance
than at any previous or subsequent age.
Most men do not attain their full
strength until they are forty; whence 1t
would seem that they should ease up
when about sixty-five And. after that
age, they should work, though not quite
so strenuously.
Guire, catcher of the New York Athletic
association, who played professional base
ball for twenty-four years. Willie Keeler.
Iron Man" McGinnity and Bill Dahlen
have played for sixteen or seventeen
years and are now as good as ever. Helm
lie Peitz is over fifty.
In fact, Mr. Flint declares, all the best
ball players today are. over forty. And
the records of other old timers indicate
that some of the best athletes in various
lines are over seventy.