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Show PLAYERS! LEARN WITH THE AMERICAN BOY Boys and young men who want to improve their crawl stroke, their basket shooting, their hurdling, hurd-ling, their tennis backhand, or their ball carrying, can enlist the aid of the nation's foremost coaches and players by subscribing subscrib-ing to THE AMERICAN BOY magazine and following the sports interviews and fiction stories that appear each month. For the coming year staff writers writ-ers have gone to two of the greatest great-est football teams in the enuntrv Minnesota and Southern Methodist Metho-dist for first hand tips on strategy, strat-egy, . blocking, ball carrying, passing, pass-ing, and the fine points of line play. They have written the story of Bobbie Wilson, Ail-American halfback. They have interviewed famous track coaches like Bernie Moore and Bob Simpson. Have gone to the University of Oklahoma to learn how college champions wrestle, to Notre Dame for the story of the building of a great football team. They have sought out famous baseball players, play-ers, swimmers, tennis champions and All-American backs, to get their story of how to play the .game. AMERICAN BOY fiction is jammed with instructive background back-ground details telling how to plav a better game. And the rest of the magazine is jammed with adventure, adven-ture, exploration, vocational help and articles vital to boys. Ohio State university's track head, coach of the famous sprinter and low hurdler, Jesse Owens, and himself a former hurdling star, first learned to hurdle from articles ar-ticles in THE AMERICAN BOY. "I used to cut out hurdling pictures pic-tures and duplicate them in front of a mirror. Then on the track I'd follow that form." Today thousands of future champions are just as eagerly following fol-lowing THE AMERICAN BOY. Send your subscription to THE AMERICAN BOY, 7430 Second Blvd., Detroit, Mich. Enclose with your name and address $1 for a year's subscription, $2 for three years, and add 50 cents if you want the subscription to go to a foreign address. On newsstands, 10 cents a copy. |
