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Show I POSTWAR SPORT BOOM $ $ SEEN BY PILKINGTON X $ Jim Pllklngton, president of tho Association of Amateur Oarsmen, sees n brilliant pros- pect for all athletic sports when penco Is declured, says tho Great Lakes Bulletin, official naval $ J station publication. Pllklngton, whoso ncttvo association with J tho government body In rowing i goes back to 1870 within a de- 3J cade of tho end of tho Civil J war belloves that conditions J following tho grent war will bo J much tho snmo ns thoso which $ wero experienced hero In tho reconstruction period. 5 "Tho Civil war, or rather the $ J ending of It, gave sport Its lm- ir pctus In this country," said J Pllklngton. "Becnuso Undo Sam Is prac- $ tlcally making athletics com- pulsory In tho land nnd naval forces, hundreds and thousands $ of young men who never before J engnged In sport hnvo becomo $ actlvo nnd enthusiastic athletes. $ It Is easy to sco what tho re- suit will bo when tho war ends." it |