Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-20
1880 BALLS
AND2,SSOBATS
SENT TO TROOPS

ATLANTA, Jan. 18-BasebaIl will
be spilled all over the diamonds laid
out in France and England for the
American fighting men who must re-
main overseas for many months.
A trifling shipment of $1,000 base
balls, 1850 bats, 1O,26O gloves Of va
NOUS kinds, 3,131 mitts, hundred
gets of bases, 266 masks, 951 protec-
tors, 5000 score cards and 1893 books
of rules was sent overseas in Deem
Der by the Y. NJ C. A
There were thirty-fOur different
items in the entire shipment of ath-
letic goods, which cost $173,33461.
The sports department is one Of the
branches of "Y" work overseas that
rs to be increased greatly during the
period of occupation and demobiliza-
zion of the army.
Military authorities are unanimous
ia their praise of the value of sports
in the training of an army to do a
big job and keeping the army in trim
after the big job is done
Men are being trained at the various
Y. M. c. A. schools in America to go
overseas and extend the work beyond
its already comprehensive program.
The variety of sports that is en-
cOuraged among the soldiers is indi-
Gated by the shipment of thousands of
basketballs, boxing gloves, cage balls,
footballs, tennis equipment, quoits,
Sug-of-war ropes, volley balls, wrestl-
ing mats, medicine balls, playground
balls and the like.
One item on the last was 600 pumps
with which to blow up the balls used
IN the kicking games
Almost $4,OOO,OOO worth of smokes,
sweets, sporting goods, chewing gum
and other commodities was shipped to
France during the month of November
by the Army and Navy Y. NJ C. A. for
the use of the American expeditionary
forces. A statement to this effect
has just been issued by the National
War Council and tends to demonstrate
that the demand for supplies of this
character has not been reduced by the
fact that hostilities have ceased.
In exact figures, the value of the
supplies shipped to France was 49,
895,908 and each months quota will
approximate this total until the forces
OVERSEAS have been materially reduced
by demobilization.
The demand for tobacco, cigars and
cigarettes has not diminished since
she armistice was signed, as witness
the fact that 1881 900 of the total
amount went for the purchase of the
weed in some form In the shipments
were 464,911 pounds Of tobacco, 1885,,
065,3 800 cigarettes and 99,970 cigars.
AS for confectiOnary, there was 2l3,-
SOU pOuEuS VI udIu Cbluyy IiJ,JIo
pounds of chocolates and 329,280 pack
ages of cough drops, not to mention
$4,000 tins of jam and 6,523, 800
pounds of sugar The chewing gum
eonsignments totalled 100000 pack
ages enough to load every slot ma
chine in the United States.
In addition to all this the 'Y" ship
ped a few sUndry items such as s.
542,845 pou-ds of -four, 1901 ,2S0 cans
OF condensed milk, 1924 packages of
biscuits, 239,6OO pounds of cocoa, g.
600 wrist watches, athletic supplies
valued at $173,334 and motion picture
and stereopticon equipment, along
with articles which the man in uni
form needs for his toilet, such as 3d.
600 sticks of shaving soap, 10000 tins
of taIcum powder, 900 tubes of
tooth paste, 1890 pocket combs, ST.
f2O cakes of soap and safety razors,
brushes and similar articles almost
without number