Show NOW READY FOR WINTER SPORTS with the football season waning the fans bams are turning to other well organized pastimes WITH the football season on oil the wane sportsmen young and an I 1 old are arc now turning to other forms of recreation in the nei neighborhood of 50 persons are active parti pants in sports today about of them being between the ages of twelve and twenty this interest has been aroused mainly through gli the proper organization of our sports and recreation activities people do not go into things in a haphazard way any more they do things in in season the tendency has been towards towar ds organization for some years and that tendency is more pronounced now than ever during the winter season said mr A fr 0 miam of the win chester cl iester store the american keeps just as busy as he does in the summer the younger element clement gives aves g a great reat deal of time to such well orm organized 0 a sports as basketball swimming sprinting jumping j bumping g I 1 gymnastics wrestling 7 hockey and other indoor sp the yr ir ore seasoned spend their leisure hours hour and days hunting and when they find it impossible to hum or fish through h the ic ice e they participate in the indoor h lippian ships of the national rifle association shot guns and rifles are arc to be found every place and in great numbers more afore than a million shotguns and rifles are turned out each year and more than five mil lions of persons will go into the fields and woods this winter with their sporting 0 arms in quest of I 1 game ame this army of hunters goes to prove the great numbers interested in this healthful recreation many of these sport men secure the bag limit some do not but all of them return home much better for the brief sojourn in the game fields golf is a fine sport and affords a lot of pleasant exercise but many believe that nothing compares with the tramp in the woods in of game with a fine gun on your arm and your dog at your side hunting huntin has often been called the king of sports and the sport of kings then when the big gun is put away the experts usually pick up the 22 calibre rifle and see what they can do in the championship events of the national rifle association there is a tendency on the part of beginners to pass up ahse events leavit to the experts to insure victory for the home club experts do not go on forever and unless the beginners compete with the experts there vill ill be no one to take their places it is not the experts that make any game it 13 the average manor man or woman ex are in the minority the national rifle association is now making 0 a campaign to interest begian beginners ers by putting on events to bring them to the ranges lee ice skating too has been brought to the front through organization and will come in for considerable attention in the sections where there is plenty of nai na 1 i tural ice ice skating is a fine and remarkably healthily health ly pas j time it has made hundreds 0 thousands of devotees during the past bast few years through the 66 con n linued promotion pro motion of winter sports carnivals and the I 1 i flon fion of the winter months as an ideal vacation period the devotees of the steel runners will grow yearly canada originated orgina ted the winter carnivals Garni vals and skiing toboggan ing in snow shoeing etc is the real thing in canada in the winter st paul and a nu number aber of other american cities became jealous of the way canada was putting over the winter sports idea and got dot busy now st paul and a hundred other american cities are each winter t nt nir carnivals of them lasting two and weeks new england is ad asing its carnivals and telling ilat hat a fine vacation pla place ce new england is in in the winter each year more northern cities are taking hold of the idea of the development of winter sports with the results that the popularity of ice skating skiing etc is growing rapidly there is no telling how many friends friend a sport will have nor how low big it will grow when it has proper or t animation |