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Show WgMV7ZAYI j iTF YOU cnre to look a few 1 months ahead, or a year ahead," writes one of our leading citizens, "I'll give you the answer concerning sport. I happen to be In a position to know what is taking place. We will have more sport than ever before, but most of it will be in army camps. I mean both baseball and football, especially ' football next fall. "By that time we'll have around 2,000,000 in army or navy life. Their main recreation will be sport. There have been so many turned down through physical physi-cal disabilities that we will soon have a rush on athletes. It will not be a surprise sur-prise to see an appeal ap-peal made to all college col-lege athletas and to professional athletes of the right age to enlist. Grantland Rice ..Youngi unmar. ried athletes earning fame or mon-ty mon-ty next year will not be popular heroes. Certainly not with the divisions divi-sions scattered all over the United States, t think you can get their vicwDoint. The luck of the draft won't be taken into consideration. They will not be cheering stars who are young, strong and well fixed financially. It will be just as it was in the World war more than 20 years ago. |