The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-16
yheodore Roosevelt
Outdoor American.

CA Letter ron the ex.Presaent to caspar whitney, Editor of Outdoor Amsrt
ca the New Departments In Golfers March 49,
" lou ask me tt speak bou vi%r Of body. I believe in 1T for is own
sake. I believe in it still more as a aid to vasor of mind n above
ALL to vigor of character ut l 10 not behsye in It a al II u
made al enc instead IF a means, n especially II play is permitted % become
the serious business Of life.
High proficiency in sport is lot necessary IN oroer 70 ge 5000 ut o u;
although, of curse, 1T is in every way bad to how a zipshod tndinerencs TO
str,eale ersonau as you know, 1 al not really good at n ganes Pe~-
haps in my time 1 I'M nearer to being fairly good a q walker. rider and
rife shot than In n other way but l was never nor ma an Average good
whatever success ] nave had In game-huntingAand It has bssu b. ma
first, ommon sens and good Judgment; second, perseverance, which IN tbs
t ug y " aS hot ~ as as NvenHa at ee as It a target This doesn not make M hit dancuit
shots but it prevented my missing cas- shots Shot which a goo large arssf- %oos viii VII
n the shots were not diff alta 50 long ns AS as N .n lid d Tot ga r aa 3D. Nov Nov. OF Of
by any means Is succe@ful a hunter as the men who in addition to possessing
amen amen or @sF w% roN were rsn more sI skilled s1 Ia fhnsrat AMI and H wooaaaft But Bs they did n
hae made M observations Of value t. the faunsi OF outdoor naturalist. Be-
sde s. / sb kmfw 7 what ma o I w an n sshn n q sn Wiling amglt TO ~0s roo 6aro rain s.i It. ou,-os-
doors nan. You speak of M recent undred-nne ride Now this was n
twice out in the catte country m the a r%nd,up. when I was young I have
change horses the hundred-mh all ride represented what n elderly "a in
boys for what they call a night picnic on he sound; W 70 roy off eight or
ten miles m out n roy back in the morning Each o. us has a light
chicken or beefsteak ! fry in bacon at o these expeditions has a flavor
about , the kind OF thing e do Instead tea . Of rowing it may be riding i'd, g. or ehoppins
pastme which any healthy middle-ased man fond o outdoors life. but lot
I thnk my last sentence covers the whole case-that ii, when say III he
e eheesma.. IT. has always a. IS seemed nd+s to y, rae ft that in .d life there na are two ways Of
called greatness One is to do that which cal only be done by the men Of
ne MAJ cal do it, and it is a very IRE kind of successo or of greatness. The
ma "M Noso osvs bt ON ane r. t he worlds W. ry "ama gen aa coIa @hhsayr e nns an
the he a settysbu mn"e speech or p hi second in usura or met met as o' Lincoln o"' met the
awful crisis of the Civil War But nos Of us car do the ordinary things,
this second category. Any fairly hardy and healthy man "a do what I have
and trouble n at the same time use common sense
:, Any ny me that a. chose @s could ss a. lead a the kind of life fsl ! have led and ay o. Who
choosing to exercise in advance h requisite industry Judgment and fore
in positions analogous % those In which ! have served in civil ae
rThe substance OF THU. statement given on February | 1909 n request Of
the editor of Outdoor America, was contained in a letter written By Mr..
Roosevelt our years ago1 -