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Show ' WOOD WiS STRONG TEAM American General Is Ardent Booster of Clean Brand of Athletics MANILA, P. b. Oct. 20 Expressing Express-ing his approval of athletic sports in general and wrestling and boxing In particular, Governor General Leonard Wood has announced be hoped every! city and town In the Philippine Islands would be combed in search of a strong team to compete in the Far Eastern games ot Osaka, Japan, next May. "1 believe In clean sport and ath- lotto training." said Governor General; Wood. ' Sound athletic training makej better men physically, cultivates tho spirit of fair play and the Idea of i give and take. It increases a man's 6elf confidence, and builds up a physical phys-ical condition In order to attain which there must bo an olservance of scif-! restraint, good habits and sound moral j principles. All around athletic train-1 jing should be built up in the Philip-' pines in every possible way, especially especial-ly In the schools I wish every boy in the islands knew how to .box. and to wrestle, and to do both well. They would be belter citizens. The tremendous tremen-dous increase In the morale, tho solf-confldence solf-confldence of a man that is engendered engen-dered by boxing, wrestling and other hand to hand sport Is of Incalculable value in any crisis of his life. J "With reference to the Far Eastern 'games to be held in Osaka next year, we ought to search every city, every' municipality and every barrio In the; i Philippines for good material. There lis no reason why there should not be I and there is every reason why theroj should be material in all the schools, beginning with the university and high schools, to pick out boys who have i Bpechfl qUalif Icntlons and" who prom-iso prom-iso to 'make good material to be iworked on and developed with a view to participation in the Far Eastern games. ' The winning of these games means a great deal. It will mean that the Filiplnod ha.c physical Btrength, endurance en-durance and skill to an extent which enables them to triumph in competition competi-tion over all other eastern peoples. If we take hold of this systematically WO shall be able to get a team which will be a sure winner, and this we must do If possible." |