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Show FILIPINOS HELPED BY AMERICAN GAMES Salt Lake, Aug. 14 American forms of athletic sports, particularly baseball, have been as Important a factor as any In the redemption of the Philippine iBl3nds, according to Henri' M. Pones of Manila, who is at tho Hotel Utah enroute home after a trip through the states. "Taken in connection with the splendid American school system the sports Introduced among the Islanders by the Americans has worked out their salvation." Mr. Jones declared. "They play baseball over there with all the eclat and finesse of your major ma-jor league at home and fandom Is just as wildly enthusiastic ovor the sport. It has entirely supplanted cock fighting, which wa3 the only national aport when the Spaniards surrendered the Islands." Tennis, golf, polo and other Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon methods of play have been widely adopted as well as baseball, s J" Mr. Jones Bays. There are major and minor leagues, athletic clubs, tennis clubs and golf courses, all over the archipelago. Scarcely an Island In the whole group that has not Its own baseball team and other athletic organization. or-ganization. "The effect of this Introduction of the more virile forms of recreation Is working out the Balvatlon of the natives If anything is," Mr. Jones concluded. "It has raised the moral tone of the inhabitants, has added to their average of health and In many ways has caused an awakening of the latent possibilities of the people." Mr Jones Is one of the biggest contractors In the Philippines. Recently Re-cently ho completed a million-dollar hotel In Manila which compared favorably, fa-vorably, he says, with the Hoi el Utah |