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Show Sport Fans Follow The American Boy Boys and young men of this city who wish to improve their tennis service, their basket-shooting eyes, their forward passing talent, or their crawl stroke, can enlist the aid of the nation's formost coaches and players by subscribing to THE AMERICAN BOY magazine and following the sports interviews and fiction stories that appear each month. "When I was in high school," says a famous decathlon champion, "I read a track article in THE AMERICAN BOY that gave me my first clear-cut idea of the western west-ern style of high jumping. At practice prac-tice I laid the open magazine on the grass and studied it as I worked work-ed out. that afternoon I increased he height of iny jump three inch- ! es. That va-- a long limn ajro, but I today tliors an !s of fut :re champ- ns jvst a- c; g-rlv follow THE ! .MERICAK EOY. : "This year," states Griffith Og- j den Ellis, editor, "our staff writers I have gone to the two greatest foot- j ball teams of the country Minn- ' esota and Pittsburgh for first- hand tips on strategy, blocking, tackling, passing, and the fine j points of play. They have inter- j viewed Jack Medica, the world's I fastest swimmer, and his coach, I Ray Daughters. Gone to Eastern 4 High School of Washington, D. C, Eastern Intel-scholastic basket- ball champions. In the past they have followed the Grapefruit Cir- 7 cuit of the major leagues in Florida, Flori-da, sat on the bench at the Rose ' Bowl, sought out the famous run- I ners, divers, All-American ends, tackles and backfield men, to bring their story of how to play the 1 game to the young men of Ameri- ca. ! "In addition to fiction, adven- ture, exploration, hobby counsel j j and vocational help, we shall con- ' tinue to encourage young men to improve their game in every line ; of sport." Send your subscription to THE ! AMERICAN BOY, 7430 Second j Blv., Detroit, Mich. Enclose with j your name and address $1 for a year's subscription, $2 for three i years, and add 50 cents a year if i you want the subscription to go to I i a foreign address. On newsstands, j 10c a copy. |