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Running--for Boys

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Day
1
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Every American boy should learn to run. In Greece, n the days when men and womeu took better care of their bodie3 that they ever have since, just as the American child ia taught to read. And as far as we can judge by the statues thev have left behind them, there were very few hollow-chested, spindle-legïed boys among the Greeks. The Persitn boy was taught to speak the truth, run, ride and snoot the bow. The English boy ia encouraged to run. In fact, at some of the great English public school3 boys of 13 and 14 years of age, Uke Tom Brown and East at Rugby, can cover six and eight miles crosscountry in the great hare-and-hound runs. Every boy is turned out twice a week, out of doors, and made to run, and fill himself full of pure fresh air and sunshine, and gain more strength and life than any amount of weightpulling or dumb-bell work in stuffy gymnasiums would give him. See the resul t- the English boys, as a whole, are a stronger set than we American boys. Every English school-boy is to some extent an athlete. And that is what American boys should be. Not because football, baseball, and tennis are valuable In themselves, but for the good they do in strengthening boy's bodie.i. By playing ball every day for hours in the open air; by exercising nis arms, back, and leg muscles in throwing, batting, running, and sliding; by golng to bed early and giving up all ba.i habits in preparation for the games, a loy stores up rtrength, which he c:-tn draw on all nis life long- that Is why every boy should be an athlete. But noi every boy can play football or baseball. He may not be heavy or strong euough; he may never be able to a-quiie the knack of catching or batting the ball. Every boy can becoae a runner.

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