New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
association could secure any really strong machine

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 association could secure any really
 strong machine.
 Inter-City Match Games.
 MT. Murakami, the general secre- tary of the Kyoto association, was able to get together a class of bank employees who soon became so en- thusiastic that our doubts along this line have been dissipated; in fact. lately this class sent fifteen ot It's members to the Kobe association 70 represent Kyoto in the. first inter-clty match games in indoor baseball vol ley ball and basketball. A large croWd turned out to witness the afIalf anu Japan's two largest newspapers sehe representatives. Aside from the ii1'- mediate value the assoclatlon lhehtT
 pers we are most anxious to ihtl " 2 8duce these games to the general pu'- lie. and affairs like the apoVe lhen- tloned are giving these games .. splendid introduction.
 Influence Beyond Computation
 .The nation sadly needs for the sake Of it's physical life number Of good group games that can be played on comparativel small plots of ground and the Young Mems Chris tian association is the only agency on the field able to supply that need. The people do not yet by any means req lize the need, but this 6Sdoes not lessen our obligation and we have all the opportunity that one could wish for. With the development of n few trained leaders the associations sphere of influence will in a few years be enlarged beyond computation I have put in one afternoon and even ing each week in both Osaka and Kyoto, and two in Kohe The balance of my time has been given to language and other study. ~
 Out door Physical Dept.
 'The lot back of the present Toyko association, which is being reserved for the new physical department building. was opened up in April as fnll-fiedged- outdoor physical de- partment. The whole lot was given thin coating of cement to insure it's use for tennis, handball, indoor base ball, basket ball, volley ball and archery. Locker rooms and baths have been put in on the ground floor of the corner of the association building adoJlning the field. The public open Ing of this outdoor physical depart ment with an attractive program was held last April, and the affair was given a good deal of publicity Lately the members have been giving U demonstration of voliey ball in one of the city parks once a week.
 Candidates for the Physical Director
 ship.
 One of the most encouraging di- rect results of this Tokyo Work was the attraction of young Christian university graduate to the associa- ton secretaryship He saw some Of the possibilities of Christian service for young men in the association work and has just entered the employ of the Tokyo association in charge of the physical department We have great faith in his developing into d splendid physical director Next year there will graduate from the Nagasa- kl Medical school a young man who has been the backbone of the Young Mems Christian association of that school. He has lately decided that after gra aduation he will use his ta- Tents in service through the Y. M. z. A. physical dictatorship :. The fact our hrst two candidates for the phy- slcal directorship are so well equipp ca personally to begin with, and are men of strong Christian character, is cause for great encouragement
 Far Eastern Athletic Association.
 In 1912 in Manila was organized the Far Eastern Athletic association, pat -erned after the International ONm- pic committee The object of this is to promote and fos- Enr nl1h1io .;Y fox zed physical education in the coun- tries of the far east and for this holds spectacular demonstra- Iions every two years, very much af- ter the style of the International Olympic games. Up to the present time the Philippines, China and Ja- pan have. been the three members composing the organization, but Iate- ly Malaga and Siam have also for mally Joined. The first, cham pionsf1ip games were held in Manila in 1915 and the second kames in Shanghai Tn May of this year, the program of events covered full week and the fact that on the last aay 2o,000 people attended the games slVes an indication of the public in- terest aroused. The Philippine Is- lands were victorious in the first games and China in the second. The Tar reaching influence of these games upon public opinion in China has been greater than any of the most sanguine believed possible, and MT. Crocker;, the association national pi1y- sical director of China, has been lit erally flooded with calls for help rom all over the empire. The Young Mems Christian association as such IS not a visible factor in the Far Eastern Athletic association, but the organization and present promo ton Is due to some of the association