The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14
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The Records Of Old Men.
They Excel in Walking.
James ]. bookings Feats.
Size ii Boxing.
Little Hen Are Best.
More About Mr.. Willard.

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~ j. MCDONALD calls our
attention to the inter
estinR fact that all the
long distance walking records
are held by men between the
ages Of sixty-five and eighty
four.
He thinks this looks bad for
the runners, boxers, football
players. baseball players, Wrest-
x1ers, whose athletic prOwess
burns out at comparatively
early age.
So it does.
Walking is about the only
form Of exercise which does
not put terrific strain on the
heart. Golf may be included.
That is, III effect, walking with
variations. The swinging Of
the golf sticks is no strain.
Horseback riding is especially
GOOD for men past fifty. But
golf and horseback ridinO are
not within reach Of all. Walk
ing is an exercise the poorest
boy may enjoy.
TAMESiJ. HOOKING, an anna
teur of the Walkers Club
Of America, set out on his
sixty fifth birthday to walk i
mile for each year Of his life in
fourteen hours. He went from
Hornell, N. r, TO 0lean, N.
sixty -severl miles without
rest.
Weston, the professional
walker, at seventy-fiye. walked
from the College: of the City Of
New York to Milwaukee, 1876
miles, in sixty days. At
eighty-four he walked from
Buffalo to New York City, $50
miles, in less than thirty days.
Dan OLeary, the great Irish
walker, celebrated his seventy
ninth birthday by walking 100
miles In twenty-four hours. At
seventy, John Ennis walked from
Coney Island TO San Francisco
IN eighty days.
HERE is an interesting ques-
ton asked by one Of our
readers: .Do you think the
average bantamWeight boxer Is
more proficient in boxing than
the top-notch heavyweight, TAX
ing into consideration footwork,
punching, cieverness, ring gem
eralship, stamina, and IN pro-
portion ability to assimilate
punishment?
Also experience, due to tho
fact that the bantam has the
opportunity Of appearing almost
every week? Do you think il
Pancho Villa woke up tomorrow
the same weight and height Of
Jack Dempsey, and possessed
the same boxing ability he en-
joys as a fyweight, that a bout
between the two would be in
teresting ?"
Little men generally have
more boxing ability than big
men.
The reason may be due, as the
correspondent suggests, to the
fact that bantams get more ex-
perience. More likely it is due
TO the fact that their minds are
more active, their limbs more
agile.
A big man starting in boxing
feels embarrassed by his size,
his awlIwardness. His slow,
unwieldy body makes the ex-
ecution of feats that require
agility impossible. For every
really clever big man in the
ring the past twenty-five years
there have been twenty-five
clever little men.
MO heavyweight that ever
~ lived could take more pun
1shment than Battling Nelson.
No heavyweight in the memory
of the oldest of the old-timers
had the boxing skill OF Jem
DriscOll or Abe Attell.
Jimmy Wilde, . flyweight,
weighing not much over q hun
dred pounds at his best, could
hit proportionately harder than
any heavyweight. And GER
tainly no heavyweight ever had
more ring generalship than
Johnny Kilbane.
AS for the question about
Pancho Villa, it answers itself.
The bout would be most inter
esting. But Villa at Dempsey's
weight and height might still
lack Dempsey's knack Of knock
out hitting.
tom o'RoURKE, veteran
manager and nrnn,nta. 3.