Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-09
Athletics Flourishing With
Boys Serving Flag in France

and sometimes 1t doesn't arrive as
Mr.. Clark Griffiths will vouch for.
!, The game is to outfit the mem
Many civilians are up in the air
over the number OF teams that a
cantonment can send forth to play
games, They wonder which Is the
camp team. There Is some little
confession. My guess Is there al
ways viii be confusion over this
point. And there are some techni-
cality artists in the camps who have
more or less 10 do with the athletic
activities but who are more insistent
Gpon form than upon efficiency
they want things to be just So 80, "
being the carrying out OF their own
pet plans. But these technicality
artists are not military men. That
we know.
Public Satisfied.
Last winter | got letter from
the sporting editor of a city daily.
II seeing that two basketball teams
from our camp were playing two
separate teams of that city In two
different halls the same night. He
was all worked up over it and de-
manded to know which was the
camp team and which was not
replied that we had no camp team,
that each represented separate reEi-
ments and each was competent to
hold It's own in any company. I
also stated that the best thing he
could do for the cause was to fea-
ture both games as the boys needed
h..
mcnt and so on, to play with here
and abroad. He got my point, The
two teams played before large
crowds. put up splendid exhibitions
of basketball and earned the money
they got from these two gapes. The
peopAs who paid admission were sat
isficd There was lot OF good done
and no harm.
As a matter Of fact. one Of those
teams was the camp team. Now, IL
we had tipped off the sporting edi-
tor 10 this fact, the other five would
have suffered There would have
been no crowd and no funds for
thR cause that needed finds in their
organization, I am afraid some ot
our technicality artists would have
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like that and therefore spilled the
beans. So goes the army athletic
game.
French Take 10 Sport,
Doctor Meylan gave me some IN
'ercstlng data about sport in the
French army. 1t is almost n virgin
field as we recognize sport but the
sod has already been broken, The
Frenchmen make fine boxers; and
at soccer great British game, they
are most adept In fact, they have
MS licked a mile at soccer as the
International matches-those be-
tween French and American teams
go to prove. They had won some
thing like seventeen Of this kind to
five for the Sammies, Baseball IS
to them aS are many Of
ou, sports. But Doctor Meylan made
lot Of progress by digestlng various
sport rules aud publishing them. The
whole book Is smaller than most OF
our sport guide books.
For example, basketball was rc-
duced TO less than two pages Tho
code was slmplificd hvrinsprting
few don't such, as that contestants
could not run with or Kick the ball.
or collide with each other As there
were no goals or baskets available.
iron rings were made by tho black
smlths and hung between two up
rights or two trees Tho end houn-
daries were extended some fifteen
feet beyond the uprights SO that
goals might he scored from either
side the baskets In thfs. u,sv ,ho