Show TRAINING YOUTH I IN A ATHLETICS Chicago has adopted a method to develop a team of young oung athletes for the Olympic games that ought to be emulated by Salt Lake Like City It would go a along along I I long way toward solving the boy had problem The authorities of the Western metropolis have just inaugurated a series of athletic contests to take place on the public playgrounds of that city until the Olympic games are reproduced there two years rears hence bence As a a. result the sporting blood of every small smal boy bo from the street gamin to his more favorer favored brother of the boulevard has been stimulated to such finch an nn extent that even the vacant lots of the city and the prairies outside have been called upon t to furnish training grounds for th those se strenuous lads who would be fleet of foot and strong of muscle The result is that crime among the youngsters is de de- de creasing ng The boys have something to interest terest i them and clean athletic training is serving sen-ing to uplift the youth of or the Windy Vindy City New York has many athletic athletic ath- ath letic clubs for boys so have other Eastern cities But Hut in England is the greatest encouragement given to boys lOys along this line Meanwhile here ere in Salt Sal Lake no provision for the thc physical training of Utah's Utah young men has bas been made or is even planned Time Tim and again the problem of crime among Salt Lake Lak boys has l been en discussed without a solution being leing reached and on more than one occasion a horrible crime committed b by a boy has served to bring citizens citi citi- zens zeus to a realization of the necessity of action in b behalf behalf be be- half of the Stat States Stales a future men While other cities citie I 1 are are awakening to their duty Salt Lakers sit Idly by and do nothing to stimulate the love loye for athletics or provide a means for its growth Having flaying given the youth routh the advantage of schools and colleges they the consider their work at an end But there they are wrong It has only begun Interest in athletics is bound to make men of the boys to turn their minds from crime and anti the small vices that start many a youngster whose heart is on the right side on the therond road rond to ruin Give the boys a few public playgrounds playgrounds playgrounds play play- grounds encourage them to organize football baseball base- base hall ball all and tennis teams to work with the punching punch punch- ing ng bag on the horizontal bar throw weights and every ery other form of healthful exercise In a a. word lets let's raise a generation of athletes out here in Utah Of all nil the countries on the globe Uncle Sams Sam's is mo most t in need of this class of men Why should not Utah take the lead |