The Detroit times., 1912-08-07
PUNY INVAlIDS ROB THE
T GRAVE AND MAKE OLYMPIC
CHAMPS OF THEMSELVES
Talk About Husky Yankee
Athletes" Seems Funny
To Some
JOHN PAUL JONES ONE
From Weakling Into World
Famous Runner Is His
Career
JOHN PAUL JONES ONE
Rx w. G. SHEPHERD.

chosen by the American Olympic
committee as the best in the country
would be men who had never known
days illness, but at least score
of the team took 10 athletics to save
them rom untimely graves.
William Hayward, physical director
of the University OF Oregon, is 2?O
FOUNDER and one of the most power
| full men / have ever seen. | saw him
sperd hour after hour on the mat
with the American wrestlers who
were training for the events and no
more streuous exercise than wrest
! ling exists.
And as a youth 25 years ago Hay
ward was given UP as incurable.
His father told him that IL he was
TO die he ought to die fighting. At
that time Hayward was walking
question mark, and could not stand
erect lie was so emaciated that his
clothes hung In wrinkles upon his
frame. re weighed 80 pounds.
I Spuired on BY his father. Hayward
tried to walk quarter-mile. The
effort resulted in collapse. but the next
day he tried II again. His lungs were
filed with a thousand darting knives
of pain, from the unaccustomed task
of full breathing. Then he cut the
walk 10 an eighth OF mile. II was
easier. He continued his walks,
spending most ofV his time IN the
woods. and each day found II easier.
At last he could stand erect and
fiji his lungs with ife-giving oxygen.
Then ne went into the big timber and
spent months in lumber camps,
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upon hts cheeks and able to hold his
own at one end of a cross-cut saw, or
TO swins an ak with the best lumber
jack ia the crew.
HAYWARD appreciated the narrow
margin he had on death, ana mas
never ceased athletic exercises. As
a result he is today one of the worlds
strongest men-.living. breathing
proof OF the value OF out-of-door exer'
ciss.
John Paul Jones, holder OF the
worlds amateur mile record. OF 4:l5
2-5 seconds, took TO athletics to regain
his health. He was delicate when
Jerry Moakley. the Cornell track
coach took him in charge. Today he
Is a splendid specimen of young man
hood with lungs like bellows and the
slow, perfect beating heart OF the OK.
Louis Scott, the wonderful distance
runner. who has run 10 miles In 90
minutes and IL miles inside the hour,
saved himself from an early grave by
running. Scott worked in an up
holster. shop until doctors told him
he might as we'll die at home as at
his work; anyway he had not long
to live.
Tnst night a friend took Scott to
some indoor games, and Scott for the
first time saw men in athletic cos
tune. HE was fascinated by the
machinelike running OF George Bon
bag and was spurred to emulate him.
The next evening Scott, in running
toys, took his first run, on the streets
of his home town. He repeated 1t
the next night and the next and the
next. -anG within three years gave
Bonhag such a terrific race that both
men finished inside worlds record.
Egon Erickson, the gigantic New
York policeman, took TO athletics TO
prevent an early decline. He weigh
ed but 30 pounds although standing
over six feet, when he took up run
ming, at the request of friend. IL
required argument to induce the long
shanked boy to get into runninN
clothes because OF his thinness.
AS a runner Erickson was not a
success at first One day, following
a run, nc turned into the athletic field
and s.G men high-jumping. II APP
pealed TO him and ne joined them.
The bar went up steadily until Erick !
son, the novice. was the only one |
jumping lie cleared five feet eight !
inches that day. He had found his
specially.
Today Erickson is one OF the |
worlds best high jumpers. He is !
also a good all-round athlete, and al !
though cast on slender lines, his I
heart and lungs are tremendous and |
his musClcs are like spring steel.
The opinion OF these men who !
have fodnd cure-all In athletics Is |
that II does everything that much ad- !
vertised nostrums claim To do. These |
splendid specimens OF manhood, liv- /
Ing proof OF the value OF out-of-door !
exercise, are the prophets who will |
spread the doctrine which the puny |
and sure-to.die folks await.