Show MEL SHEPPARD FOR ATHLETICS FOR BOTH SEXES One of Americas America's Best Bets Back of Wide Nation-Wide Movement By Mel filet el Sheppard Instead of or star performers athletics Is aimIng alining to develop all the people Democracy Is affecting athletics I as It Jt Is revolutionizing other features of community life In this unique mo modera modern mod mod- I ern era period of reconstruction after the war athletes athletes' and arid athletics find nd themselves themselves them them- them themI I selves Relves facing new new tasks and new and larger opportunities nn and In new ways Serving as as an athletic director In Inthe Inthe inthe the arm army training camps 1 was amazed to find how many man men have grown grownup up without an any r physical education or I knowledge of or athletics Some o of the thc fellows telloW's actually could not throw a But the big lg thing that I and andall andall all the rest o of America learned from athletics In the training camps was that everybody should and can get Into the tho game that there is little good goo to tolie the lie people In inthe the development ot of a star team or or one or two champions while i the great groups of or men and women sit Idly on the side lines an and have ha nothing of or the physical development upon which their success s In business and In everything e tho they thoy undertake o must very ver largely depend One new new- Inexpensive universally available method of or reaching all aIt the people all the time has been d discovered In Chester Pa b by th the community service department of or athletics and physical education We 0 are arc taking VaCant vacant va Va- cant lots and developing them as recreation roe rec centers centers mainly mainly for adults and therefore principally in evening hours That vacant lots school yards ards park pant spaces and similar grounds are to be bo had naci In ever every city is evidenced by the tho had naci In ever every city is evidenced by the tho fact tact that they exist In large numbers I In this oldest city Iff 11 Pennsylvania and anda nd I a city which H Is h densely populated with witha a of Industrial workers who have hae Increased Increaser in number during during- the tho war from rom about to or If H this new athletic department department depart depart- ment can succeed In IzY Chester It can succeed anywhere this side of hades hados COM Coat sunlit Slight A 25 2 box of or equipment for games Is another feature of or the thc discovery er which modern athletics athletics' is making in Chester We Te would not patent the tho idea 1 if we could and all the satisfaction that Chester department of or athletics and physical education desires Is the knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- ed edge e that the tho new Idea we have worl worked 1 cd out hero is being copied in other com corn Instead of or hundreds or even en thousands of dollars tied up In playground playground play play- I ground apparatus and instead bf bt re reQuirinG requiring re- re quiring even the permanent ownership of or the vacant ground we have ve worked I out a set of or balls nets bats and anti small game gamo equipment which will viii make life re more moro abundant In any community I which an raise about 25 for the box and can al also o supply some popular leadership leadership leadership lead lead- I for or the Initiation of the games Volley ball Is o of course one of or the tho games for which our athletic box equipment provides the box Includes a agoo good goo ball bail anti and a not for or basketball there Is another special ball an and two goals The Tho national game ame of or baseball is made possible oven even In small spaces by the playground ball and the two t batS bath which the box OX provides Qu Quoits I arc are also contained in the bo box Thero There Is also a medicine ball which can be bo used for playing dodger do ger ball and antI all sorts of or shuttle relays relas and for many games In addition to the fundamental purpose o of physical development About 25 C covers co the whole cost an and I anybody an anywhere can doubtless find findan findan I Ian an athletic supply house which will be beas beas as eager as our nearby Philadelphia I house was to prepare a standardized box and to make malte a n specialty of or selling it to groups of or orl people who I want y to o turn their leisure hours from rom liabilities to assets I From experiences during tho the war America has l learned arned that about one In Ineer er e every three of or all her male population I I Ihas has been physically below par and unavailable un- un unI unavailable unavailable I available for tho thin army or navy y and that a n very large proportion of or these II physical defects could have been prevented pre pro vented or remedied by physical tion America m has s also l learned r that 1 I r Il It rn i Interesting and interesting and that thal means that It must consist largely largel of popular games games Is is one ono of or the tho chief essentials for tor human efficiency and certainly one of or orthe the Indispensable methods of or developIng developing develop elop ing good soldiers sailors and marines As these fighting righting men come home the they will expect from their local communities communities com com- son some of o the opportunities for wholesome efficient living which they have enjoyed at training camps and even in Iii the tho fighting rightinG lines Unes in France rance With Ith the new vision and the patriotic help of or returned soldiers sailors and marines It should be bc possible for ev ever every ev- ev and er cry ery American community largo large small to get a 25 5 athletic game ame box bo to J scrap crap the tin Un cans oft off oc a 3 vacant lot and anti to set everybody to playing popular popular pop pop- popular ular games which will keep all the Col folks ks per pel cent efficient t for their best possibilities of or service to their neighborhood and to all America |