The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1907, Page 7

[LATEST REPORTS AND! _ as NEWS TIMELY COMMENT | JF ALL BRA - WESTON TO LEAD | WESTON ON His REC WALKS FOR THE ~ ~~ EVENING WORLD ees Great Pedestrian Joins in Plan to _ . Promote Healthful Out-Door Ex- | - ercise for New Yorkers. 7 ~ WESTON BIDS THE BOYS TO JOIN WALKING CLUB BY EDWARD PAYSON WISTON,. “Weekly ontdoor walks will go further toward building up tie phy- sique of the young men of New York than any form of exercise they could enjoy. v “T wil! walk with them myself, and I know they will soon walk through a dexire for the exhilarating effects of breathing fresh air. As soon as the Christmias festivities are over I will announce my plans through the Evening World and will heartily co-operate with-that paper in {ts efforts to help improve the physical condition of our youny men. “When we tf » begin this work I do not want wenk-kneed bors without the pluck to keep up thelr effo I know that New York bor are plucky. Those who arc not and those who ere willing to cry ‘enough’ before they have gone two miles I do not want. I want every body to Joln—men and boys allke. : Tnless the boys are willing to go {nto this work with a det tion to stick to It they had better not join the procession. We want boys who are manly d who have the future of their country at heart Though I am ears ot age and my hair is white there fs not a boy in New ‘m4; Edward R | cently had the eyes of the world focussed-around him when he w: | from Portland (Me.) to Chicago in less than twenty-four days, has | agreed to co-operate with The Evening World in conducting walks in| New York. The old-time fad of walking has taken a hold again. | ho re- Iked yson Weston, the. sixty-nine-year-old pedestrian Mr. Weston proposes to improve not alone the present but the grow: ing generation by stirring up interest in healthful outdoor exercise. Walk- ! ing, he says, is the simplest form of outdoor exercise. Mr. Weston: will | take personal charge of the walkers and will give valuable suggestions to | all who join The Evening World Walking Club. The walks will be con- | APTARIZA ducted weekly. The date of the first walk, together with the route, will) WAAR SPLL be announced later. : | TZAS So. Gome days ago Prof. William Elmer made the statement {n The fren- epee Sisto Renae Syconons bane e TORE. Ing World that the prevalence of stomach trouble among the men of New York was due entirely to the lack of exercise. He showed where the walk SUTTON AG RE ES TO PLAY h ew of two blocks or more to the subway or the [, was the extent of the » Yorker's datly exercise. This statement interested Mr. Werton, and he has = concluded {o overcome this lack of attention to the physical body by be- 0) RA Vi 0 RN IN GSTAR HF RE. ginning at the bottom and educating tho youth of the greater city on the 1 te i | necessity of outdoor exercise. In thls he will co-operate with The ening World and will from day to day communicate with the men and boys of ‘ New York through Jts columns. dalkline & 1 5. Winher is young- Begin With a System. ypiles in an atternoon and think noth-/¢).q¢ atsoes , “It the people of New York would be- n hax aot completed ats) fer the ‘emb! ain a regular syatem of outdoor walks,” | as #00n as the Christmas | hinie hayabMrciveatoniiciheinserowichented: Pactivittes are over he will have mapped | The announcement wii recet t poke 3) Jr opportunit put a schedule, and it will be ‘i ieaaalre ; i : : undersized. enaemle boy of tha Bast CUE A genetic aie ening World, . ‘ t into action ts one vide and other nectlonxs would be al! Mr, Weston Is Interested. thing of the past. When they have So great fn the Interen: of t tnce experienced the exhilarating feel- | podestrian in. thix effort to Improve Ing following an outdoor walk of reveral | peysical condition of the yo: ofS y will ser be Fork dhat he baw forexone contracts to | emblci hours they will no lonxer be i) SDE Ge VOT RS Pye merch iss pera confine thelr play and sports to the | vaudeville. harrow lttle rifts through the crowded | “*V aistricts called streets. Once thelr lungs ea sanne fre expanded with pure, fresh air, Pde! along com Neve they will keep it up. \ekaneitonh “Since 1 wan a iad of cigniven { have | York Sta been a pedertriantand the fact*that I} wot want you to understand gatablisied a record in walling from | the bexinninys.”” save Mr. Weston & he ow L2LWARD Mote RAGiR to Sete YP ON L WEPZON.. .-. acadteiny IT can not afford to rin the way d rather manage rtably and. bi ve ali the money s practice with |caxo last sp. ‘ here and his frien t him on edge for ‘came. xlous ee Mornin tar THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, Portland, \ co at the age of xiderub! mipojasta. t twenty-woven is well known. 1 am six: | work ts ta be hail done. ty-nine years tay, Ieay I whl sce Ubat the aoa eniivaennotage are started on the right road « ei they wih hay enough 6x: fto conduct the work themsel |. Ido | to do It through a desire for the plea hho man in New York to of twenty-one who feels an than I do, "Of course, you will hot approve Of Young bay Ing out | Ure ad benef affords, on auch long walks ax J recen wan w furiony but we must start at ;noon and ah ch fury have nlu T want work upward. vo bey ears tOLA eres ONEKCE tO RWRIKGCWONt Len tte te ie eg oa erasers trae theory | Sel esen PEATE Mea Ged aN meee noua neces five miles In one day und YOON 1 tg atiok eration, They must bein by walk. | 'R00) ng one mile, then two and xy on until | wit announce they ure ablo to stride along over ton lay yo Winston, ———< $< ‘His First Long Walk. - Forty-eight Years Ago, ir: [longi ent in} fui’nedior don (0 fealeneel at the ago Aport waa ed. that hel prion. In fact Mr. Weston | 207) sicians that hia ut-| Bight Sween: \l show It. Unless they wo Into the xport with a fow on theaa | Amphion Alleys for | Fdward Payson Weston tirst attracted |and Weston sax not so. pr Public attention us « pedestrian forty- | the pubile (By his det eight yeurs uxo when, xt the age of | Attempt to walls to Chi twenty-one, he walked from Boxton-ty}riyiced because few. be Washington to attend the inauguration | coule accomplish tt of President Lincoln mesraavieediby aac ee 7 rf pt would be foolhard € Up to thaz uma bly walks had been te hoovevereranditne. publ confined to thirty and forty mile affairs | of hin’ auccess. wround New York and tn Now England. | Just before starting his His feat of walking to Washington | Galcago Mr. Wewion walked: from Boston created so much comment | "practice." Doctors accompanied hin that he asplfed to greater thingy und [in an automobllo, and they ware aston-| York to gix years later ho announeat to his}! ely And Fink tie tens gouriey dusthness on ‘ apes hot disturved hm In the Teast. Ho ate] re trends that ho had made up ils mind |A” hearty dinner, lept. well and was | tournamen to walk from Portlind, Me., to Chicago, ;ready to begin pronarution for hts [fe doce ‘The achlevement of that ambition waa | longer walk within forty: t hours emplo ‘ the real beginning of public Interest a} eXe AON HERA In stauire, mneinber ‘of walking ax’a eport tn the United States. /naver tired tn his life, On his recount Broadway, G | Mir, Weston covered the distance—1,320 | Walk ‘to Chicago he lost about six | Uni! “| mlles—in twenty-four days twenty-two | Pounds In welxht, Wit : ihoars aud forty) laut: That retord ————____ molcusiensi oft Nouse.te3 ‘stood until a month or more ago wher match games!aire 19% (fives|lowored by, Weston binvsns.: 1 ELK “sonra Al one serten Prone Gamaimant ax itwenty-even yearn of aga when Nientennby unbar he made tho first record und ha lowered ORTSMEN S SHOW. Mee ema ern ano it at tho ago of sixty-nine. “Why. % Loaguos will roll Am | gecora in America of a walk of 19 | marked a pretty mish at. the le urday: Miles within, twenty-four consecutlve|mon's Show st Ciraet. center Temes hours, by walking the distance over an |yestorday, “but vow = know that pias, {accurately measured road In nature fakors tiavh been perpetrating chester County, this Btate, In twenty-/ nome more of thalt ace !4 tate Beat ‘Attention of the New two hours and twenty minutes, Junt weo chin little one cat candy.” Ani} Agsootation has been ¢ In May, 1870, Mr, Wenton walked 100 lure enough, axahevholn Gut a nico tat] arosenatul, piace. adopt | Miles in twonty-one hours and thirty |yellow bombon tom lyounn clk, Foleago leaxues to. prev felturen ¢ { minutes In New York, and Jn May. tive |licked {t sreodily Into hie“nouth add] gon-appenrance In all tournaments, « Years Jater, he walked 115 miles In /ohewed deliciously ‘at the luscious }inatter w the N.Y. B.A. has “{twenty-threo hours and forty mins Hump the while his niovth watered ae [been able to toa with Utes without making a stop, In|he looked at-the box wh'oh held snore} Under the Chrenee an idan) lire, ha won the ‘Astley belt DY Jot the awent mtu But one of the (pay eptierln eee srinutes, dofeating hit,throo competitors:| Kdldés who happened along took ooos-| Jey wx hours before a gine ty callod. ‘ fwe of whom were inglishmen, by 10h] ion to explain that the ‘elk had not] SINE Nis ronson tn wilting. | WV ane fo . BeK, Th, March, Ie. tie defeated teen ratsed on auch: uelearics, and hel the executive commitivs to decide Ie the fs 20-50" ah Gina ard lot ak mien "feared that hie digestion inight bo {o,-| reasons for the jpostponement aro sof feces Rc ROSS SHOT OA a a edt Guinea) ie He’ 8 Elent to justity the sotention of S14 yorkyiiie. howtors have reorranteea the tyenine, Interest in me WIM be started oxt and Myrtle ave nh Eytirdars, “the Brooklyn and was the Superba alleys in the Great nat want |OFFICERS FOR THE necrmtary, 1" captain | of thy be +e > simply credited ‘ql for there will ague at the too many ef tlie bon~ ‘ bow! in the league, and if not he is mmerso, € . bow! Friday night t | ohalrman HLin the public inigreat ia walking Dons, ae 2 | Ritperrped. Bienn's, Baal" Bighty-fourth street. -Giub Af. J.” Boynvell” | toam serjer in the # GM. Js Informed that in sooring a get LENOX TOURNEY. 1907. __ NCHES OF SP URI | ROBERT EDGREN D-BREAKING WALK LEAS ARE MERRILY POUNSING THE LUMBER, |New Star Combinatiofi at the HEA RD AT THE iF OUL LIN BS Close Race on in the Big East- ert _ and Interstate \ | | Tournaments, | els | iat Is being teams jn the wague elt esentod ac: s wh out crowds, which pack t shade In ‘the race to da ree and ft ark hus hampioi also leads tn a reason of ‘Voorheis'« Koad w raisidiial eeriog tn the in) the twormen each league to date astern League Record, INDIVIDU riz I | Interne wr | GREATER NEW YORK SCORES. Whitey Horan. John Koster in series at ne Hr averaging! over fentral ¢ for the Avorng Cobler-I83, 20 2 io. Average, 26 6-9. as and Dunbar xiving tonal promi- re the series he al- tasiorn, the Jolins-| rth quintet belng probably about] Phe worl Brooklyn, by leads astern, 1 The {a as n{ man believes EDITED BY rT ROSE’S STANDING AS AN AMATEUR BEING PROBED { _e Premident David Starr Joraus, vi oiun~ ford: University. One or : these Rive ROSH, the giant Callfor-) views I Inclosa herein. it Dr, Jordan hua nian, in tho Intes-athlote who te! retiv, wherwin it ig’ stated tye. cloud. atichiican has, hired, protevlonals. om, ites an nme, '* AE Phe A. A.C. has’ degiri an investiga |. iealant Rose und one that aoslt he ton as to hia amateur wtanding, An in-| {elf Uy him. Saints Tose Ie now corm. Hon As 9 hil an ! | feline! us nn. amaceur. simply. booms erview with President D. Starr Jor- 1: he had obtained trons the Poetic cnet of Stanford Universtty, in which Sciation a. rard: entitilAl raat pat it peotess the champion skot,'putter, who- broke aie ee ieanen re eeetcae recocas in ote day at Travers ein or at “any otter. thine Te is one Wea He devour ty and tin nt at: ene outdoor championships in| of ait A fe mernbers; to sea’ Ural, tia September, was charged ‘with profes-| card We evict AG aad eet CE sfonaliam, has aroused Preaidént Jumen| future e | “* SR Amaceur In the fh, Sullivan, of the A, A. U. rfary peupod bade fp ll Laat at Yosterday Preaiient Bullivan sent a| aslo: of kood work on the Coast, Theres fetter «to tha preaident of the Paciic] Zor wil you make tt your business to } ¥ on. Prewldect an, and $f he cam Axsocjation of che A, A. U., urging the| “civo you euough evidence, to patiaty. Western official to cult upon Prewident | Ur committer, them, by all means, can- Jordan and gather evidence. The oan- Lory Wiha ih ee oop OE ander before en jean, or | As you know, the Amerioan committee coliation of Itose's registration card) Hl be called upon to select « team of P aie DAteur athletes to represent ne controlling body in amateur | thanparinauacieLiiaceenn ton Jn recommended by the head| 1908 and they certainly will not want to Inctude in that team an athlete that the A, A. U. in the event of Presi-| is under saspicion. . dent Jonian substantiating thie oharge | That portion of the interview which [he hax made against Rose, refers to Ralph Rose ts the only, part Following isa copy of tho letter: that affects the Amateur Athletic Union of the Uniced States. Rosa won. our 8. B, Pelxotto, Preaident Pacific Asso champlonship ‘and Ja now competing for elation, San Francisco, Cal, tim, and if he 1a\a profexsfonal we don't Dear gir—In neariv all of’ the New want him, Yours. truty, York papers of Bunday, Dec. there JAMES_E. BULLIVAN, __Apoenred "a telegraphic! Interview from President A. gE: v. TO shi SHOW uP JOE ROGERS | fon and forte “Huckenschmidt imo « © GOTCH. the Amertean|iuitel even If be nas to post 56,00 ce Poe cengebelys enh 1d he teneatne ohacyiun, wrestler, Ifo Gere Bel ot in not atrud of Hackenschmidt oe quch a Bille, Ie TAKUME OF WElERS Vy other wrestler’ declares Gotch. for the express purpose uf spit ite Aly American record xives me the right fm atrength aud belie apie’ ty KO 19 1) items wnyudy at catch-as-catone 5 SoBe ieee HUAN, n 1 will aa t that | know very pated chamion AL eis abut Me Graeco-Roman style, but | Grreou- Koma ety) |Lam willing to tuke a chance | Gotch now weighs twenty-five pounds} “pie idea of O'Rourke taking Rodgers [more than when be wrested Toi Jen~ over. to bk vp, though, and advertising: | kins, and te fevls hut he ought f0 Del nin as the world’s obaiiplon la what lable to holt tls own agwnst Hacken- ix lw preposterous and lie | | | Rurope and che j the world’s” unt ety me, *}echinidt or uny other man“acrom the! English people will be (orved tu see it doruten bug noun ae TL reach british soll) am here not bousting iny owl game, for the har grouch which Is €naw- pocords tell Uiat, but | refuse 10 let an Hur at Gute vitals, However, ia whatljuposter lhe Radeon eo around and aa oeperte mumptuous work of try to také away iny leurels when. 1 roi, O'ltourka in teking Joe Rodgers to} Have, beatun Ain and beaten him to a rast?” Europe ang billiag him ax the world’s} Goteh says he will start for Europe | chumpion’ | Hevanyn te. will Ko to Lon. gomne time in March. eens COLUMBIA TEAM HOLDS — «CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP — Yesterday morning th Dntastant Siro: Una quanta! at brentfast ———— Club” of Exlward aS . rou wero orleinnted the eye AC Tr eeea OD fate tournan The ie Vic-] puxiness meeting was held at tty sane ory of the ¢ ia Chess m, who] Unie. “A motion to jneroase tho mit th anz| {fom fifteen to twenty eroded nth an Ber nual intercollegiate chess tournament, wel which terminated last night in the nations) fooms' of the West Side Republican! Contest for the issae Leino Club. The won out "by in of Oxford and making a ty 2 points out of : iNet alse whieh tallied 614 points; Princeton of” the ae was third, with 414, Harvard, has won the event nine ‘times, 1a bad lust, with Siz points, sermiers of the winning team 2 Capt L. J. Wolff acd IL Blum- pleat 0 . Who made HG. Ram the last n first Blumberg agai straight — victor of Bishop Bur ing fourth umberg. tnetic rd has’ won nine tournamen Columbia six Gnd Yale one os HOFMAN SAYS HE'LL QUIT CUBS — CHICAGO, Til, Dec. %—Artie sHof-) to the different players who are ta tional utility man of the ‘0 by President Murphy, ? whois disposed’ to. buy the Dew t of the medals were sent to the Club, will experiences troudle sé oadquarters to be given the plays President Murphy | ¢'! Whose addresses were unknown to E the comm Several of th SURES At ere ey ats al of the players docs not care to discuss the matter, v are dissatisi With the workmansaip Manager Chance will probably hold to} of the trophies, although {t 19 a great Hofman, who Js an unusually valuable | Improvement over the medals given to an, Hotn : Ruoniinohubataeerediby, the champtonshtp teams of “former Io, however, as he says tie | 20Ars ‘Tho sew medal ja made of four j this obstaclo, } ’ plerea riveted togvthor, with space bec will buy: the team any df the twoen the front and back parts, ‘T Agrest upon, and-nlanage it] back. part {x so thi bench, or employ & manager, | 0° Pressed in. and continue tfavelling with the Cubs.| 7 conyactya an Hasenatt ow » ne fe th bes iS The Jows: club Is) on _ CE ANe. 4H i There will be three Youngs In the money-makers {nthe West, and Hot-} oie jeacuos next ncason—Cy [,, ofsthe Bowe could ati! further Dulld | ton Americans, Cy IL, of the Forton Nap power, Wonals and Cy IU. of Pittsburg. The Jant~ : i famed Ie from Wichita and Was ono ¢ championship basebal| oii hy Manager McAleer, of the Bt. Lou fare belng handed out each day! browne, up {ts earn med: SPORTSMEN'S fefofe} Ss { SPORTSMEN’S GOODS, Under usplcea of the Forest, Fish and Game Society of America GRAND CENTRAL PALACE Dicember 23d, 1907, to Jancary 4th, 1908. Opon Dally from 10 A.M. to 11 P.M, with Many Wonder Exhinita of t Live Anieals ', Forestry Trophies Live Game Birds “Camp Life Photegraphy . Live Game Fishes Art in Outdeor Life Biograph Pictures of umbering, Hunting and Wild Life.—— Tho Exhipits wil’'show many rato animals, rds and fishes seldom seen tn Ccaptiy: Including the famous aka Erlo collection of fish direct from Jamostown, Music by Shannon's 23d.Reglment Band, this Is a true Sportsmen's Show and the FIRST ever held In this City by this Society. —— ath that It ecavtly can —