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Show ATHLETICS IE PART OF DRILL Contests, Both Team and Individual, In-dividual, Harden Men for Modern Warfare. GAMES APPEAL TO ALL Men Sum Up Character of Officers Of-ficers by Their Excellence in Sports. N13W YORK. May 18. That athletic training and sport are not entirely eliminated by either war or military drilling is being demonstrated frequently fre-quently these days both at home and abroad. Reports from tho front and at tho various training camps carry repeated mention of athlotlc contests, both team and Individual, and tho daily physical exercise necessary to harden the men for tho more serious work of modern warfare. A writer in one of tho leading English Eng-lish papers' devoted to sport states that the British home defense army has attained a point of efficiency which would make tho Invasion of I England an utter and absolute folly, whether the attempt was mado from tho sea or air. Ho claims that the fighting men there are of tho right sort, thoso who do not grasp a novelty nov-elty and a uniform. Tho salient feature of tho new army he says is its sporting sido. Games of all sorts appeal Irresistibly to officers of-ficers and men alike and ho describes as especially pleasing their fraternizing fraterniz-ing daily in tho bporting arenas. Ho emphasizes the fact that while absolute abso-lute equality is observed in the several sev-eral arenas no lack of dlsciplino is shown or attempted by tho enlisted men while away from the atletlc fields. During tho games, whether trying conclusions con-clusions with the boxing glovos, finishing fin-ishing a closo cricket match or contending con-tending for master' at all-around athletics, ath-letics, tho excitement at times Is intense. in-tense. The writer goes on to say that . during theso struggles the soldiors , readily sum up the character of their officers, and tho officer who excols In sports gains a very valuablo asset tho estocm and confidence of tho men under him. , If for nothing else, therefore, the . wiltor says, the army's sporting sido Is jo bo commended for tho confidence It establishes and ho is convinced that after the war all-around sport will be resumed on a scale unprecedented even in Groat Britain. Judged by general gen-eral results, ho asserts, tho drill-sport curriculum has proved invaluable and i ho off-duty enthusiasm for sport Is proof of tho Intensity of tho passion which athlotlc games Inspires. Harvard Writer's View. Graduate Treasurer of Athletics Fred W. Moore of Harvard university touched upon the same subject, although al-though from a different angle, recently when he wrote "Owing to tho suspension of inter-collegiato inter-collegiato contests, It Is the pla nof the athlotlc association to promoto and encourage intra-colleglate sports, so far as possible, without interfering with military preparation. Until the plans of tho authorities tako definite form, however, It is impossible to organize or-ganize regular competitions. These, will probably tako tho form of Inter-class Inter-class and scrub contests, and there is no reason why these teams cannot arrange ar-range occasional informal games or races with local outside organizations "It has been the experience of England Eng-land and Canada, both at their universities univer-sities and with their armies in tho field, that it is not desirablo to cut out athletic sport, however serious the situation. With a long period of preparation before us, It Is decidedly unnecessary and unwise to do so here. Even in the present unsettled conditions condi-tions thero is no reason why we should put an end to those normal activities which we may, with entiro fitness, continue." con-tinue." Many League Teams. According to the latest official reports re-ports close to 175 cities and towns throughout the United States are represented rep-resented In the various baseball leagues Included In the classifications from major to class D. In 1914 the same lists showed that there were league teams in about 300 cities or towns |