OCR Text |
Show WHY AMERICA ALWAYS WINS We Train Through Sports Our Heritage of Blood. Nerve, Determination WrtAIAM O. SHEPHERD, a war eevreepondant who haa bean on five bat tie front a says In Everybody's Every-body's for November that tha reeult of thla war waa decided far In tha paat. Ha compare America's part In It ta our suecesa In the Olympic gamea and recalls tha prediction of tha lata James Hull! ran, tha chief of American amateur athletic. "Tou take thoae boys. said that veteran back In 11 J. "and atudy their name. How many different na-tlonalitiaa na-tlonalitiaa do yon suppose thsy represent? We've got Americana of German blood who ara going to boat Germans from Germany. "We've grot Italians 'on our team who ara going to beat Italians from Italy. We've got boyg of English blood who ara going- to beat Englishmen, and boya of French blood who will outrun or out-Jump out-Jump their brothers from Franca. Why. we've got men from almost every nationality na-tionality In tha world In our American team who'll beat fellow a of their own blood from Europe, Now, here'a tha dope: These boys on our team are the sons of parents who had nerve and backbone. Their parents wanted want-ed eomething mora In Ufa than Europe had to offer them. And no they tore up thalr home anchoragea and want to ths United Statea. It takea a good man or woman to do that; healthier and more ambttloua than their neighbor. Men and women Uke that are going to have fine children; ambitioua children with lots of red, good btood and brimming health. They'll be better children than the average aver-age run of their cousins back In Europe. "No matter how things go, no matter what turn things may takajjr what surprises sur-prises wa meet, the pers-t-nTTitftts are all In our favor. We won't lose. It s all a matter mat-ter of ma the ma tics from now on. Thar a my dope." |