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Page 10 I A if ' "nf II <S00D j y o| By Robert Edgren m p 11 American newspapers are ra J 1 JT a fund to buy athletic goods f( A W of our soldiers in the tra camps and at the front. It Tir 1 good cause. Athletic sports III I make our fighting men far I I k 1 effective than any untrained II i Ink of troops. The development ol I hi E2 I lel'c8 wi" Kive the soldiers i ill wBjl thinK to think about besides IH ? 11 WI" make tbem much mo IS I to "go over the top" and iuti (J3 IK^ui trenches of the enemy. f ~j I was talking with an atl JfrTfcjgpj soldier just back from the frc "I was in only one charge Osaid. "but the years I put in i athletic work were worth just for that three or four mil _ -i ? m were all well trained n baseball and football players, jy Some of us were lacrosse HJI II mil ers up in Canada before the |i j! | We went over the top after a ijij | Mi bardmer.t that only drove the j' f "11 mans down while it lasted. A? H 1 I |l as we started the machine gur ||| gan to turn loose on us. jj, jl fl| "I didn't feel like being in jit | hi|| of a hurry to get anywhere !l| | 11 |j that happened. But when the r j !j ml began to drop I saw that it \ ' ? ' BUI case of running to get there b 1 was hit. We all ran for a -' I1 were worth. It's part of Athletics Great ^ TME Balc. :K" * PlAYtK. - floes'ovw. I / J Top quicKiY 2/y^ /T^ AKK> W*'T / > j WUJDfeD *]HEi4 / / ' Ht REACHES MAKW eoc*> AS *"S*e E)t^. A GREUADt "*?Ro* TIE Footbauc PI-aver. strategy of an attack to avoid i , , vancing so fast that the men i using winded and tired out when they i ?r all to grips with the enemy. A dt ining tired man is up against terrl' la a odds when he meets a fresh m with the bayonet. He has lost speed and he'll be lucky If more doesn't lose his life because he's I body 8iow to get in the first thrust. alb" "We didn't go slow to save c lom9- wind. The bullets were coming war- fast it looked as If it would b? re whole lot safer over there In I 0 ">e Bocbe trenches. It seemed hoi that we took to cover that few hi hlete- dred yards. It might have beet ,n(t* couple of minutes. We piled In " he top of the Germans and it was 11 ij worn ior a mue wuue, aiuiou while we seemed to hare surprised th lutes. with our speed at that When ien? was over we were In pretty gc most- shape?those that were left I play- if we had been untrained men war- would hare been winded aDd cl bom- an(i our louses would hare b? 0er" twice as heavy. ~ iS Greek Athletes Were Great In Bat The ancient Greeks knew the i much vantage of athletic training In I until days of hand to hand fightii i men Every Greek was trained to be vas a soldier. He ran races, threw 1 iefore discus and practiced often with 1 11 we Javelin. He was trained in box) the i and in sword fighting. The res 1 AND CAMP , Training for Soldiers p I \ MAKES All EXPERT OAKOMET FiawTtn_. showed in many all-day battle* with Persian invaders, where the Greeks sometimes killed ten of the enemy for every Greek In the fighting line. The Persians were war-like enough, but less skilled in athletic sports than the Greeks. The sports that will be encouraged in the American training camps will all be useful In preparing men for battle. Boxing will be the chief sport. Every man will be taught to box. because a good boxer is sure . to be a handy man with the bayonet. Bayonet fighting Is practically boxing with a weapon. A lot of . boxing tricks, including several that are barred in the Queensberry rules but considered quite the proper thing in a lumber camp fight, have been applied to bayonet fighting. In war there are no foul blows. In fact the blow that would be foul In boxing is most easily delivered with the bayonet. Some of the new bayonet work 1s done with a shorthand gun, the muzzle grasped in one or In both hands. It was suggested by a box er's Infighting. And reporta from the front say that the Canadians who originated It, find It Tery effective. "Snappy Blow" the Thing with id- Bayonet ire In boxing, many blows, and parget tlcularly the Jabs, are delivered -ed with a quick, snappy motion, not ble driven through with the weight of the body behind. This has been bis applied to bayonet work, the soldier be being Instructed to drive his bayo oo net .In not more than five Inches. This Is enough to kill, and It' re11 eves the fighter of the embarrass80 ment of having to tng hia weapon i a oat of bone or other obstruction, the which would cause an awkward dears lay should another of the enemy be in- jabbing around In the Immediate 1 8 vicinity. ?? Baseball players, recent tests have shown, readily adopt the 8 cricket bowling motion with which B hand grenades are thrown from the '] trenches. Occasionally using a ball '?*J throwing motion they can throw 0 much further than the cricketers, we although there Is more strain In ow this, and It la not to be used all the *>n time. Football and lacrosse players all tie make good fighters. There is sd- something of the battle spirit In the each of these games. They are ag. rough sports, and they require i a courage, skill, endurance and agthe greesiveness to a superlative dethe gree. No man with a yellow streak Ing ever fought his way into a first ult eleven at any of the big collages. R Isn't done. And the Canadlsn I Lacrosse men sre ell good fighters. 9 They have to be. If they weren't ! they'd choose some softer sport. ^|? Find Athletic War ot Modern . Times ~,P?' B Baseball, football and laeroese v< g| will be sports generally encouraged . ,8s In the training camps. Boxing will be nniyersal of course, and will be t j9| most Important of all because It will fflP be used for training every man. There will be a lot of games which \ M two or three men can play, and . Jm which will not require great skill. These will be necessary for general ';?& exercise and entertainment. There neYer has been a time, in the past sixteen hundred years, j|? when athletic sport has played ase* is inna -onf In wan Th? last Occasion -ji* I on which war and sport went together was In Greece, when the conquering Romans were compelled to prohibit the eontinuance of the Olympic Games because athletics kept the Greeks full of fighting spirit that led to frequent reTOlta Jk against Roman rule. .- 'sW Pepper Talks M J By George Matthew Adams HONOR When a MAN dies, he lives. I never pass by a Spalding sportennrii store but what I think of is a story. Here It 1b. Back in the early nineties a fight was on be- jS? tween the National baseball league and an organization known as the Brotherhood. It was during a time when the life of organized baseball ft. was seriously threatened because of ? crookedness among players.. Spalding sent for Mike Kelly,:&!? who had Jumped the Chicago Club, and met him one night in the old - & A8tor House. Mr. Spalding counted ik5; out fifteen f 1.000 bills and laid \ them on the table. "Kelly," he said, "you can hays this money if you will sign with the & Chicago Club and begin playing ' ?? with Anson at once." : Kelly, who didn't hare carfare in his pocket, looked at the healthy . & paper sheets wistfully for a few li| moments, and then replied: "Can't do it, Al! You see I gave my word of honor that I'd stick by the Brotherhood, and I can't desert the boys!" "All right. Mike!" said Mr. ;-^?2S Spalding, as he began picking up the money. "I'll tell you what I will do, Al!" exclaimed Mike, with a grin. "I'll borrow & thousand, if you *. don't mind. I Haven't got a cent!" i Mr. Spalding quickly handed ovef T. one of the bills and remarked: "Your word Is worth a thousand, Kel! This is a present with my best wishes!" I never saw Spalding or Miko / 12 Kelly. Spalding Is dead. I know nothing of Kelly. But I shall never J forget either. They are both worth ' remembering?both. (Copyright 1917 by George 1 Matthew Adams) '^1 FISH AND FISH A shoemaker In an English city, -:-K| getting on well in the way of buai- I i; nesa, bedame proud. One day there ' were a lot of customers in the store I when the shopboy came In to say >- I that the mistress bid him say ale- | ner was ready. "What's tor dinner?-" asked the wfi shoemaker. "Herrings, sir," answered the *? boy. "All right," said the shoemaker, and when he went In to dinner he reprimanded the boy for not men- J tlonlng something decent and big, j telling the boy in fatnre always to mention a good feed when there were any people in the store. A few days after the boy came to say that dinner was ready. "What's tor dinner?" asked the t. shoemaker. "Fish, sir," answered the boy. "What sort of fish?" "A whale, sir!" replied the boy. SHE PROVED IT In a small Georgia town the prln- .-A dpal speaker at a big meeting said: "This town is smaller than New ; is York, bst K is Jest as progreestTe % and up-to-date." Then he Introduced a young woman who sang "Little Annie 2f
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