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Show nun no new 111 FOUNDATION i I IP 1 CAPTAIN M A BP. I IT (TOP) KSD SPIKE WEBB, who VRE GROOM-im, GROOM-im, kRMT LND VAV BOXERS. The army of the future is to be built on "sand " This sand will be the product of athletics Live examules of army sand aro Capttitta Mabbutt of Camp Holabird. Md . and Spike Webb of the Naval Academy. Both sxe manufacturing more athletic ath-letic sand. Captain Mabbutt is In charge "f a" I athletics at his post. Webb is boxing 1 instructor for cadets They see a great future for the men who go through Lncle &am s training schools. "It's the. aim of army and navy posts l" build ui athletic teams rivaling rival-ing those of tbe big colleges," says ; Captain Mabbutt. "In a few years the teams of Un- ; 1 cle Sam will trim the big-time foot-ball foot-ball elevens, baseball nines, track j squads and boxers. 'When voting fellows see the ad- j I vantages in army athletics they'll be j 1 glad to enllrt " Mabbutt weighs 285. He Is 6 feet j 6 Inches tall Overseas he was active! In promoting boxing. He himself: starred on a football team., He's boxed t both Willard and Dempscy. Webb, also, taught tho Yanks how to box overseas. Both Webb and Mabbutt praise West I Point's' new system ol hand-picking i star athletes from other colleges as1 prospective a iioy officers. The cadet school is robbing big colleges col-leges of stars, but it is building army sand at the same time Next fall. Bo McMlllin of Centre, j Garblsh of Washington and Jefferson. 'Benny Boyflton of Williams and Bili ! Wood of Johns Hopkins are slated for I West Point These and other brllliauts will put I athletic wild In the army of tomor-I tomor-I row. v 00 |