EXERCISE WHILE AT PLAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15504, 10 January 1914, Page 9

EXERCISE WHILE AT PLAY.

While compelled to take a course of physical exercises, the average boy is inclined to shirk exertion as much as possible, but the-, American system of getting the schoolboy to do these exercises ensures his puling his ■whole energy into them without knowing that he" is doing eo. Speaking last evening on the system adopted in these schools, Mr. Peixotto, manager of the team of American athletes now touring the Dominion, gave a few instances of this. Most boys enjoy nothing so much as a slide, and in many of the American playfialda long slanting poles are provided which ensure a magnificent slide. Boys, he said, would spend hours sliding down these poles, and never thought for a moment of the fine exercise they were getting in climbing the high ladder which formed the only means of getting to the top of the slide. Again bending exercises were invaluable, and these also the boys did without knowing as they were induced to take much interest m potato racing and such sports which entailed the exercise in a somewhat hidden form. Mr Peixotto gave many other instances of a similar nature to the amusement of the audience.