Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-05-14
ATHLETICS NOT
ELIMINATED BY
THE WORLD WAR
Home Guard Army on Duty
in England Spend Consid-
cradle Time at Sports.
INTERCLASS MEETS
PLANNED IN EAST
Close to 175 Cities and towns
in the United States are
Included in Circuits.

New York, May 14.-That athletic
training and sport are not entirely
eliminated by either war or military
drilling Is being demonstrated fire.
quently these days both at home and
abroad. Reports from the front and
at the various training camps carry
repeated mention of athletic contests,
both team and individual, and the
daily physical exercise necessary to
harden the men for the more serious
work of modern warfare.
A writer in one of the leading Eng
ish papers devoted to sport, states
that the British home defense army
has attained a point OF efficiency
which would make the invasion of
England an utter n absolute folly
whether the attempt were made from
lighting men there are of the right
sort, those who do not grasp q novelty
and a uniform.
Games Have Appeal.
Tho salient feature Of the new army
he says is its sporting side. Games
OF all sorts appeal irresistibly to off,
GERS and mel alike and he describes
as especially pleasing their f%raterniz-
ing daily in the sporting arenas. He
emphasizes the fact tina while alb
solute equality Is observed in the sew
eral arenas no lack of discipline is
shown or attempted by the enlisted
men while away from the athletic
fields. During the games. whether
trying conclusions with the boxing
gloves, finishing a close cricket match
or ~contending for mastery at all
round athletics, the excitement at
times is intense. The writer goes on
to say that during these struggles the
soldiers readily sum up the character
of their officers, and the officer who
excels in sport gains a very valuable
the men under him.
II for nothing else, therefore, the
writer avs the army's sporting side
Is to be commended for the confidence
1t establishes and he is convinced that
after the war, all-round sport will be
resumed on a scale unprecedented
even in Great Britain. Judged by gen.
eral results, he asserts, the drill-sport
curriculum has proved invaluable and
the on-duty enthusiasm for sport is
proof of the intensity of the passion
which athletic games inspire.
Intra- Collegiate Sports.
Graduate treasurer of athletics, F.
W. Moore Of Harvard university,
touched upon the same subject, al
though from a different angle, recent
ly when he wrote:
lowing to the suspension Of inter-
collegiate contests, it is the plan of
the athletic association to promote and
far as possible without interfering
with military preparation. Until the
plans Of the authorities take definite
form, however, it is impossible to or
ganize regular competitions. These
will probably take the form of inter-
class and scrub contests, and there
is nc reason why these teams canno
arrange occasional informal games or
races with local outside organizations.
'It has been the experience Of Eng
land and Canada, both at their uni
versities and with their armies in the
field, that it is not desirable to cut
out athletic sports. however serious
the situation. With a long period of
preparation before us, 1t is decidedly
unnecessary and unwise to do so here.
Even in the present unsettled condi-
put an end to those normal activities
which we may, with entire fitness.
continue"
175 Towns and Cities Included.
According to the latest official re-
ports close to 175 cities and towns
Throughout the United States are rep
resented in the various baseball,
leagues included in the classincations
from major to class D. In 1914 the
same lists showed that there were
league teams in about 900 cities or
towns.
Athletics IN Camps.
College athletics are found in large
numbers at all the various training
camps these days and a. is natural the
football players lead all the rest. AT
Plattsburg alone there are close to
two hundred men training for posi-
lions as officers who have gained fame
either local or national as gridiron
warriors Of exceptional ability. Among
the more prominent who have worn
moleskins within comparatively re-
cent q are the following:
Harvard: Robert T. p. 6torer, Har-
ry Gardner, H. r. (Tacks) Hardwtek,
Charley Coolidge, Dick Harte, Tom
Thatcher, Bill Robinson. jos Harris,
Mark Horne, Crawford Blagden; Col
gate: Joe Brooks; Yale: Henry H.
Ketcham, Joe Neville, Douglas NJ.
Bomeisler, Lewis e. Bomsisler, Jr.:
Brown: N. NJ. de Vitalis, Mark Far
num-, Ray Ward; Williams: !Cy Tool
an; DARTMOUTH: J.. w. Saladtne, Jr"
"Red" London: Princeton: ]. Q. Pari-
setts; Amherst: R. shumway; Co