New Ulm review., 1922-03-01

Walk few hundred yards briskly, then fall
| into a light trot, and gradually increase
your speed and feel how fast you can go
without having to breathe hurriedly and
through your mouth; say, one respiration
cycle to every six steps. think if every
man could make it a rule to run a mile or
more daily and do light gymnastic work for
fifteen minutes every day before retiring
living a rational life otherwise-an age
limits for sports would have to be moved
considerably, and the arteries would show
those disagreeable signs of approaching age
much later u .4
have mentioned gymnastlc work. No
limit here for anybody, and no excuse!
There is an enormous field, say from the
tumble and giant swing OF youth and young
adult to the light dumb bell work and the
systematic body movements that even the
octogenarian can perform and enjoy. 1t
would lead us too far to go into any details
here.
Another sport that | consider fit for
healthy individuals of all ages is swimming.
A boy or girl of six can learn it easily, and
a man of nifty or sixty in constant prae-
summer day as well as ever, and may be
able to keep pace with a much younger
swimmer on longer distances requiring a
long, even and steady stroke The best
swimmer at the little town in Germany where
/ tried my first padding was tall, gray
haired man of about sixty-ive who would
swim out into the lake until we could hardly
see his head any more. A well known gen.
tleman in Cincinnati, then near seventy,
could always gather crowd by his diving
feats when saw him years ago.
| Take wrestling for example. Nobody
will deny that it is a sport even more strenu-
Gus than football. Have we to draw q
twenty-five year line here, too? I think all
| than that and it is generally known that
Cannon held the Graeco- Roman champion
ship Of England until he had passed fifty
years Of age. Wrestling, the 1'microcos-
mos of gymnastics is a fine form Of bodily
exercise for those who enjoy hard muscular
work after the tedious business hours Of the
day, and may be practiced adapting it to
clrcumstances-by the man OF a ripe age as
we'll as the boy Of ten or twelve, especially
the form known in this country as catch
as-catch-can (Which is about identical to
one form of Swiss wresthng). exchanged
the Graeco-Roman Cor German gymnastic
style for this one when forty years old,
and enjoyed it very much, especially if
my opponent was Of my own weight or a
little lighter and the sport was deprived
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spirit of the partners.
To sum up: It is futile to try and lay
down definite age limits for the different
kinds of athletic sports. The limits vary
individually within very wide marks, and
| if observations made on number of indi-
viduals of the present generstion put them
very low, this does not mean that they would
be the true and desirable limits if we had a
generation whose physical education from
the beginning had been taken and carried
out upon a plan only one-fourth or even one
tenth as elaborate as the plan for it's edu-
cation not only as far as exercise and sport
is concerned but also in regard to, eating,
drinking, clothing, sleeping, pleasures, slim
ulants, etc, and whose individuals are
willing to continue to live upon a similar
plan after growing out Of the hands Of
their educators. Live a simple, natural
life, take strenuous exercise every day Of
your life, even should you steal the time to
1 do so, and see what will become of your per
sonal limit for the various kinds Of sports