The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-21
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~ JACK KEENE

With the summer vacation nearing
it's end practically every school and
college in the country is preparing to
continue all branches Of athletics, add
ing many military features which
brings the thought that there will be
pronounced change in sports after
the war.
Many of the games, which have held
only moderate interest for years but
which have been kept in the list for
want of better events, will give way to
contests of military nature.
Grenade throwing, bayonet duels
with blunted bayonets, and scored on
point system obstacle races with
military feats involved are only few
of the possibilities.
Definite rules governing these new
contests will be laid down by collie
giate, scholastic and A. A. U. officials
to standardize the new games.
Many of the instructors who will be
teaching these games after the war
will be men who have seen service at
the front as athletic instructors II not
in the actual fighting forces. One can
readily see how these instructors will
put the well known potato races and
similar games on the shelf and sub
stitute real live trench game. The
wand drill undoubtedly will be retired.
The bayonet drill will appeal more to
young America. One can readily see
how a variation of the wigwagging
system now used by the signal corps
could be used to advantage in place
of the wand or dumbbell drill. The
regulation army setting-up exercises
undoubtedly will be used in gymnaS-
iums universally.
Military drills probably will be held
in schools all over the country, too,
even after the war. The boys like
things military These drills, with
their attendant sham battles and
marching will get the youngsters out
into the open more.
Summing it all up the Inauguration
of these military events will do much
to increase interest in athletics. And
good clean, wholesome sport for the
coming generation Is more vital than
ever before in the nations history.
Catcher Art Wilson OF the Boston
Braves never startled the baseball
world with his brilliancy. He just
played a good, steady game and gave
the club the best he had.
Arts sort of an easy going gent
Along came the first registration
for the draft Art hadn't thought
about his age for some time and when
the day came to register Art got twist
ed and thought he was just under
thirty-one instead of just over the
draft age. So he registered with his
home board.
A while ago he woke up to the fact
that he was over thirty-one. Art
went up to the board to tell them Of
his mistake. They thought possibly
he might want the error remedied so
he wouldn't stand a chance of being
called.
"Oh, let her go the way she is if
it's o. k. with YOU said Art.
I'm no better than anyone else and
if I'm called I'll GO
Which reminds US of Hank Gowdy,
now an officer in the gas and fla me
division of the army. Hank was un-
known until he bobbed up in the
worlds series and proved the hero of
the big games one season. Hank took
his honors modestly. The applause
failed to disturb the easy going Hank.
They even say that when someone
asked Gowdy what he was going to
do with his world series money he
drawled:
We'll. I'm going to have a good
glass of beer, for one thing"
Hank was the first big Lacquer to
volunteer for service.
Which goes to show that these easy
going chaps we see in sport as we'll
as in other walks of life, have just
as much fire stored away in them as
some of these temperamental crea-
lures who continually kick up fuss
or the fellows who break into the
limelight through their brilliancy
The good old red white and blue"
runs just as deep in the veins of the
Gowdys and Wilson's as it does in the
other fellows.