Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-07-30
OLD AGE EXERCISE.
PLENTY or 1T AT REGULAR IN
TERVAL A GOOD THING.
This Is. Especially True Of the Man or
Woman Who Has Led an Ae-
tive Life, Say the
Physicians.

Old age is the period where one
finds a good many conflicting opinions.
but the evidence appears to be in
favor of regular exercise and plenty
OF II up to old age, especially If one
has been active IN early and middle
life. H. Toeppen in the New York
Medical Journal mentions man in
Holland who was seventy when he won
a well-contested skating race. Also
man past seventy who came in ninth
in a 350-mile race which occurred in
France q couple Of years ago. He
sums up by stating that it is futile to
try and lay down general age limits
for the different kinds OF athletic
sports One OF the most remarkable
feats for an aged man ever recorded is
the great performance of Edward p.
Weston. who at the age Of seventy,
| walked from New York TO San Fran
cisco in los days. One year prior 10
this he walked from Portland. Me, 10
Chicago, averaging nearly fifty miles
day and covering ! 200 miles. Weston
has been an athlete all his life, as in
an interview with a reporter he said
! he exercises every day excepting Sun
| day. His habits have always been
good and he is a strict temperance
man.
The recent death of Professor LON
| broso, at the age Of seventy-three, calls
to our minds that he was a famous
bicyclist and frequently journeyed
through Europe on his wheel.
The death. short time ago, of Joss
Radcliffe recalls a wonderful feat
which he performed at the age Of
forty-two. He backed himself to run,
swim, row, ride a horse and a wheel
each a quartermile within a quarter of
an hour. The times he made we're;
Rowing. 1;43; swimming 539; fasten-
ing on shoes, SO; running. 240; total
| time. 12:4S.
Last year a pedestrian named
Hughes. It is said, walked so miles in
ten hours. His age was stated to be
| siXty-eight.
In commenting on the death of Will
liam Blake, lawyer, athlete and au-
thor, a writer states that there was
! something sadly significant in his
| death at the age Of sixty-one. Mr..
| Blake when young and in middle age
| was very much interested in athletics.
AS he grew older he devoted about all
his time to his law practise, and it is
said that he took no exercise the last
| year of his life. The strain caused by
a very important law case is supposed
to have paved the way for a fatal
stroke of apopleXy. So interested was
he in this case that he frequently
worked far into the night on the pa
pers. Here is another illustration OF
a man who did not keep up his heart
muscle, as 1t is very evident that de-
| geneTatiye changes occurred promptly
when he ceased taking his usual eXer'
else, as he was a natural athlete up to
his sixtieth year When a young man
he was a stroke oarsman in the Har-
ward crew which defeated Yale in the
| year 1866. When seventeen years OF
| age he lifted, with his hands alone
| 1,019 pounds. Another feat was walk.
ing from Boston to New York (225
miles, in Az days.
| All the best authorities appear to
believe that walking is the best exer-
else of all provided it is done in the
open air Blake thinks walking may
be prescribed as a therapeutic meas.
ure in certain conditions. Doctor Gas
kell says: "A good brisk walk in the
fresh air with free breathing and good
style. is as useful form of physical
| exercise as any | know. Medical
| RoCorI