AS FALL draws inevitably closer, more and more
kids are getting back into sport. Last weekend the

parks were filled with

teams either involved in

pre-season soccer tournament action or practices.

Close to 6,000 youngsters
will be fighting for field
space along with the adult
leagues in soccer while the
Gordon Sturtridge football
league for kids will soon

who are into running, tennis
and other ‘racquet sports,
and exercise classes.

More money is _ being
spent on making people
spectators of sport than

begin another season andthe participants. With very little

huge North Shore secondary effort, one’s butt could take
‘school athletic program _ root to the chair in front of
gears up. — the TV simply from wat-

In other words, thousands
Jof young people on the
North Shore will be par-
ticipating in some form of
sport program.

' And what about you?

Fitness has becomé a
major industry im North
America with clothing and
shoe manufacturers catering
and manipulating all those

ching others sweat.

Sport, which was designed
for and by the participant,
has become a tool of the few
to be used for the sedentary
entertainment of the many.
And that’s a shame.

Read what Dr. George
Sheehan, the philosopher of
runners, has to say:

“When the beneficial

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effects of activity on the
heart and circulation: and
indeed on all the body's
systems are , absent,
everything measurable
begins to go awry. Up go the
girth of the waist and the
body weight. Up go the
blood pressure and heart
rate. Up go the chloresterol
and the triglycerides. Up

goes everything you would
like to go down and down
goes everything you would
like to go up.”

Sheehan then hits an

interesting hypothesis:

“And if the body goes, can
the mind be far behind?
Creativity depends on ac-
tion. Trust no thought
arrived at.sitting down.”

While the kindly doctor
enjoys sport and = enjoys
watching sport, he is pretty
firm in saying that the doing
is more important than the
sitting.

“The seated spectator,”
says Sheehan, “is not a
thinker; he a knower. Unlike
the athlete who is still
seeking his experience, who
leaves himself open to truth,
the spectator has closed the
ring. His thinking has

-has enclosed himself in bias. .

. prejudice.” * *..

become a rigid knowing. He...

and partisanship and-°:
With so many kids taking
part in organized sport..and
so many adults involved in”
personal fitness programs
perhaps we are witnessing a
turnaround in the way our
society looks at ourselves as |
individuals. Just maybe we.
are at a point where we are |
willing to expand = the
knowledge of our mind and
body. Maybe we are ‘willing:
to come out of the stands
and get on the field. — os
Again, from Sheehan: o
“From the moment you
become a_e spectator, =
everyting is downhill. It is a
life that ends before the
cheering and the shouting
die.”

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