Show t I 1 Tennis lennis and Football A Are re Different Sports But Bat Have Many Points Points- in Common Both Give Genel Generously to War and Walter Camp Indorses Net Game as One of the Best to to Make Nation Physically Fit ENNIS and football seem to be as utterly different as two sp sports can can T TENNIS be One depends on team play and the force of physical contact The Theother Theother other is based on individual skill and strategy On anal analysis however they are arc found to have many points in common Success in tennis is founded on speed mental alertness stamina and that intangible characteristic called nerve ner which is generally taken to mean the possession of ot a fighters fighter's heart These same qualities make the great football player for tor he must be Quick and sure of foot font ready to pick nick a hole and in the tame game every second I of ot play It is ms perhaps because of these facts facU that football hl and tennis have given generously generously gen genn to the great war game The football football football foot foot- ball stars are In their country's service almost to a man and so are ale the ranking tennis players And now comes Walter Camp the best known figure In the football football football foot foot- ball world as an advocate of tennis to help make the nation physically h IY fit wf Mr Camp has been e doing I wonderful work worl in promoting the physical welfare of men in the navy He has alE also o undertaken undertaken undertaken under under- taken with the National Security league a a. campaign to show men all over the United States Slates that they must be strong and well wen If the country Is to do Its full share In winning the war MUST DEVELOP TRUNK When Then the lea leagues league's ues ue's program program was announced announced an an- S. S fc 5 Myrick as vice president president president dent of the National association offered Its cooperation In Tn this effort the associations association's association asso asso- elation's s membership is is- being interested and responses thus far tar promise real progress progress pro ress in this work worl of conservation To ro prove the necessity for physical activity that continues through a man mans man's s middle and later life Mr 11 Camp calls attention to the fact that one fault with present systems systems lems has been that they are too complicated complicated complicated or do not develop the trunk which needs most attention Another difficulty Is that men give gl up their sports ports as they become engrossed In business or professional cares Men Ien of ot all ages have taken up tennis and have found u It an ideal exercise e says Mr b g. g Camp ramn but hilt u na af at u most t i If it la is an an r outdoor nt t nn sea sea- I I sport And how v o man many i tennis s. s p players players play play- ers stick to It as a permanent conditioner condition condition- er cr er Does not the tennis player enjoy the sport a L few years then abandon it either temporarily or permanently and thus destroy destroy destroy de de- de- de stroy the hope of securing regularity and continuity In his physical condition through the hope of even such an excellent excellent excel excel- lent game g-ame as tennis really reay Is It was partly with this In mind that the annual meeting of the National association association association tion voted to sanction handicap tournaments tournaments tournaments ments this season Witty With practically alt all the ranking players In uniform tournaments tournaments tournaments ments now must be made up of those who have played In bygone seasons and of the il ilOa youngsters Oa eg below I tr military age who he will make tennis Is history In years to come By judicious handicaps players of varying varying vary vary- ing degrees of skill will have the sporting chance of winning that adds zest to any game g I The players' players reluctance to enter tournaments tournaments tournaments ments while the nation Is at war which I was complained of ot by committee chaIrmen chairmen chairmen chair chaIr- men last season seems to be removed All tournaments are being played for the benefit of the war department commission commission commission commis commis- sion on training camp activities so that the financial results accrue to a good cause Moreover In view of the strenuous ous efforts of Mr 1111 Camp and others doing similar missionary work worl to build up the I nation physically cooperation of this sort Is put up to a man as his duty TOO MUCH WORK ORK Work Yes you ou you and all the rest lest of ofus ofus us ts must work worl harder than ever before Uncle Sam says But no one can work worl effectively unless he is fit so outdoor sport IS coming Into it Its own as the great of the country's country a people The passage of the da daylight lIght saving bill will h help lp tremendously by bv giving additional time tine for outdoor exercise Young and old can find something to do 10 that will make them stronger physically and mentally too for too for a a sound mind In a strong body I lIs Is as true today as it was when the old I Homans coined the phrase Mr MI Camp clinches the tile argument by saying The great question which Is exercisIng exercising ing us today Is one which we now nize we should have considered a generation generation generation genera genera- tion ago A social scientist with what we now recognize C e as startling t n prescience re nce said forty rt years eb b back I that the h greatest i nation of the future would be the one that thai could send the tine most men to the top of oi the and the world Is ms provo Ing his hits case today Think of ot our history And yet when war broke out we were fat rich flabby and helpless It was not ten years after the War of Independence before before before be be- fore we had begun to lapse The War Val of 01 1812 awakened us but little Then came the Civil war and when that ended w we knew the value of hardened trained menTor men For Tor a time there was a a. great boom on the phy ph physical side It was then that tha tour our colleges began erecting gymnasiums and our people began athletics notably baseball base bade ball We Ve have kept the sports It is true but when you turn a nation into a city cit drifting money-mad money race even these sports help out little No sooner does a boy today finish his school da days clays s 's or his college course than he drops his sports for what what mores mores more's the pity pity for for what we as parents have been wont to admire namely the serious purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose to make money mOlley or oi position In a a. a few years He gets his nose to the grindstone grindstone grindstone grind grind- stone and he does not take it up until his back is bent his chest hollow and the r spring of youth gone Too late he realizes realizes real real- izes what he has done Instead what you want to mate male of your boy Is ms a thoroughbred a tough strong sound man with reserve power with the stamina and to serve his race and race and to finish In front I |