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Show COMPARE M COLLEGE ATHL Military Superior in C tity; Universities Pro bly Higher in Quality. WASHINGTON". D. C. May SI. Ho the athletics, recreational as well as bod: building, of the army camps compare with the athletics of the college groups is shown in some of the reports being received by .he war department commission commis-sion on training camp activities. Most of the men making reports to the com- mission have been college coaches or col- lege men and are interested in the upbuilding up-building of sports from both angles. In quantity, the army group uuquesuonabiy leads the college group. In quality, the distinction is not so apparent. In baseball, base-ball, tlio army teams have more than held their own with the college men. In basketball, the records seem to indicate-a indicate-a fifty-fifty break between the division teams and the coliege teams, while in football, a record of oil the games played between division teams and college teams i seems to indicate the colleges have the edge. Track meets between division and college teams have not been held ami therefore comparibon on that basia ) Impossible. Quantity has been the watchword of the army. Most of the college men who have been a part of the vast athletic organization of the war forces are frank-to frank-to admit that in this the army has the advantage over the colleges. This tprlng most of the army cam pa are down to about the number of men that most of the schools have. Fort SilJ, with its 5000-odd men. Is about the same size as the larger uifi versttles of the country. The figures of this post in quantity athletics ath-letics can be compared with that of some dozen or so of the well-known schools. Fort Sill League. At the present time Fort Sill has thirty-five baseball teams playing in a regular league, with games scheduled ! twice a week. Many teams in the league J are organized in the camp and play j "wildcat" games with teams in the I league, between themselves and with teams outside the camp. Some idea of the amount of baseball in the camp can be conceived from the fact that 1.TJ0 baseballs have been used in the camp t!i us far for spring work, and the athletic ath-letic director is certain that at lea4:. twoniy dozen more balis will be needed before tho end of the baseball season. Jn spite of this interest In baseball track Is not a neglected sport at tlv camp. Once each month the athletes c the camp hold a meet, the contest an' numbering f rom hundreds up. In tl , meet of Aoril 19 more than S00 athlct-took athlct-took part and more than 300 spectato j were lined up around the track to wat i the diifcrent events. Fort Sill is one the first camps to complete a set of rf . j ords, and from the time of the April m , I on. men breaking- the records will j cetvo a medal, as In college competiti t The records of the camp follow: ' ! CiO-yard dash 5 3-5 seconds. 1 00-yard dash 1 seconds. j 220-yard d:-tsn 24 3-5 second?. 4 ( 4 40-vard dash SS 3-5 seconds. ' SXO-yard run 2:1:1. Mile run 5:4 1. j 220 -yard hurdles 30 seconds. f j Discus throw 102 feet 4 Inches. r Shotput 42 feet. ' Broad jump 19 feet 9 Inches. High jump 5 feet, u1 Inches. j Prizes for Winners. Jn the meet in which these reo ) were made, ten cups, presented by cl f ians to add to the Interest of the If diers in the meet, were awarded for q dividual events or for regimental or c a pany standing in the meet. f One of the games In which the j leges and the army do not compar boxing. It has been little used In colleges, although the eastern schools organizing a boxing league to cons pi i the good in the game developed in j army. Fort Sill had its boxing by n -i j as well as the ether camps, and also its boxing shows, the attendance at i V j shows for one of the recent weeks t ing 14,000. Of course, not more lha: j; or .sixteen men took part in the si fhi but these men were picked l'roir fJi f! en t Ire personnel of the camp as f t,n j (' showed their ability In the daily h - it instruction, so the one man in'thfi. w! '! the night of a show represented. sp' ' where from flft y to two hundred 3 i fifty men whom he had caused ( trU, j J by the wayside. The large attcrvoj j i is pa.rlly due lo the pro pence in thef, J of men dota iled for discharge thet o j , lowing their return from oversea--' 1 & |