Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-22
nation Will BESAVEDBYNS
ATHLETESN THEEVENT OF War
Chrsty MatheWson Thinks That Bail Players and Other Men
of Sport Would Make Good Soldiers as They Have the First
Asset of Good Constitution Should be Compulsory

the army so / had to return to the
United States Oddly enough this
man was rejected, although he was i
fine athlete"
Sport Good for Nation.
| don't think that there is any DOUBT
that athletics is good for the back
bone of a nation, and patriotic citi-
zens should attempt to take part in
some form Of exercise which is going
to keep them fit. In the first place,
the man who can play SO holes of golf
in a day, for instance, is going to be
able to march further and to finish
less fatigued than the man who never
gets out of his office. The open air
and the thrill Of competition keeps the
ordinary man in a better frame of
mind and free from nerves. Therefore,
he makes better fighter. To be fit,
a man does not necessarily have TO be
in training or to indulge in boxing
running, baseball, football or the other
more strenuous sports. Golf and ten
mis- condition a man for fatiguing
work
Few of our citizens are accustomed
actually to live outdoors, and, there
fore, hold hunting to be fine thing
If man can spend few weeks living
In the open each year exposed to the
rougher life of outdoors, he is not go
ing to fall sick as soon as he finds he
is in the trenches and in camp and
has no plush divans on which to sit
or feather beds in which to sleep
The citizens Of the United States
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of athletics and realize that, when
they take part in sports, they are not
wasting their time, but preparing for
the. future and building up the physi-
cal as we'll as the mental backbone
of the nation. In spite of the criticism
of the size of our standing army, | be-
lieve the United States so Ter would
make a good showing in war becatse
of the present hardness of the race,
which is due more or less to outdoor
sports. Many recruits could be gained
in short time. The healthy man
should endeavor to increase this hard
mess by taking part in sports if he
does not already.
Where Is Willie Keller?
Several readers nave written to me
and have asked what becomes of the
old ball players in these days.
You don't hear of benefits being
given for big leaguers any more" says
one writer. What becomes of the
men Of 10 years ago? Where is vii.
lie Keller. for instance?"
/ think that this is a great tribute
to the big league ball players. The
day is not so very far past when col
lections were always being taken and
benefits given for some broken down
ball player who had been star in HIS
time and who spent it when The had
it"
Willie Keller is living in Brooklyn
and devotes much of his time to col
lecting rents for apartment houses in
which he is an ownef 1t was not
many years ago that Willie" desired
to have his father give up position
that he held with the Brooklyn Rail-
road Company because he wanted to
take care of the father in his old age.
but the old man, being full of Keller
stock, refused to abandon the job.
Willie" went around privately and
made arrangements to haYe the elder
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came back all down in the dumps.
What's the natter asked Will
lie"
After being 18th that company for
20 years they put a young man in
my place and | had no. job when
went around to work today" COM
planned the father
Well, We all get old" answered