How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlieir side is oiit^ and then walk back again, bai'dly getting work enough, in a cold day, to keep them warm. Running bases is sharp, jerky work, and a wretched substitute for steady, sensible running over a long distance. Nor is the fielder^s running much better; and neither would ever teach a boy what he ought to know about distributing his strength in running, and how to get out of it what he readdy might, and, more important yet, how to make himself an enduring long-distance runner. For all the work the former brings, ordinary, and even less than ordinary, strength of leg and lung will suffice, but for the latter it needs both good legs and good lungs. Run most American boys of twelve or fourteen six or eight miles, or, rather, start them at it —let them all belong to the ball-nine if you will, too— and how many would cover half the distance, even at any pace worth calling a run ? The English are, and have long been, ahead of us in this direc- tion. To most readers the above distance seems far too long to let any boy of that age run. But, had he been always used to running—not fast, but steady running—it would not seem so. Tom Brown of Rugby, in the hares-and-hounds game, of which he gives us so graphic an account, makes both the hares and hounds cover a distance of nine miles without being much the worse for it.
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