The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-04

Loyalty support their national pas time and that baseball will be even more popular when this awful emer- gency shall have passed into history.
 It is generally admitted that the best means of obtaining physical re- creation is to seek and cultivate some outdoor sport. The inclination for some form of sport in the open by youth and adult is as old as the world. This was true in Greece and later in Rome when the great empire war in outward form a republic. In our modern day the greatest sport loving people in the universe are those of the English speaking race, on which the sun never ceases to shine, and in whom the spirit of liberty is more strongly implanted than any other people since the dawn of creation.
 The American game of baseball never has had an equal as an out door sport and it is hardly conceiva- ble that it ever will. It seems that this game of our own invention in. cludes and embraces every essential that stimulates the mind, recreates the exhausted faculty, amuses the jaded sense, revives the sluggish blood, makes strong the weak muscle and impels vigor and health to the body that no other form of exercise the elements of sport can accomplish. Thousands of young Americans engage in the gam. ol baseball either as a means of pleas ureable exercise and recreation or as a means of h. norable livelihood while millions witness the playing of games, both professional and amateur
 When the benefits to be derived from the game of baseball are taken into consideration there is added in- centive for it's continuation during the coming season. It is to meet this urgent necessity for recreation and relaxation, from time to time, in this crucial period of our national existence that clean wholesome sport is needed, and Iknow of no game that fulfils such requirements better than baseball. For these reasons and be- cause of these conditions, baseball is certain to form an important part of our recreative life in the trying days which are apparently ahead of us.
 COLLEGE ROWING.
 By Charles HaIsted Mapes, Chairman
 Board of Stewards, Intercollegiate
 Rowing Association.
 definitely the outlook for competitive rowing during the coming season, l feel confident that the sport will oc- cupy position of importance in the athletic activities of the eastern col leges in 1918. As a means of physica. and recreation, rowing has always held a deserved prcmi- hence in the athletic life of the un- There is, moreover, un- der the present conditions, an addi- tional and pressing need for con tinuation of the upbuilding of the collegian both from a bodily and mental standpoint. know of no better form of exercise to help to achieve this than rowing with it's demand for perfect coordination of mind and body in the individual oarsman and the crew as whole.
 That this is thoroughly realized by those in charge of athletics at the various colleges, which have sent crews to both Poughkeepsie and New London in recent years. is shown by the plans to continue rowing, even though in modified form. during the coming season. There will be both indoor and open water training for the oarsmen at Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard and Syracuse, Inter-class and college re- gattas will be held and under certain conditions, there is a possibility of some inter-varsity competition, al though not upon as an important scale as that which marks college rowing in normal times.
 Fall practice was held at a majori- ty of the institutions which have SUD- ported crews in the past and reports, from all these centers indicate that the students evinced marked interest in the sport, when the number of un- usual activities which are now part of regular collage work are taken into consideration. That this same inter- est and enthusiasm will continue throughout the winter and increase with the coming of spring appears quite certain. Rowing will be SUD- ported so long as 1t does not inter- fere with the more important duties of the undergraduate in his relation to his college and the country at large. and those in charge of the sport can be counted upon to see that this dangerline is not over- stepped.