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Show KEEPING IN PHYSICAL TRIM Skipping Rope Is Practice of Sailors Stationed at Great Lakes Training Station. Uncle Sam's sailors at the United States naval training station have various va-rious ways of keeping in physical trim. With approximately 1,500 track athletes ath-letes among the men on the station, skipping rope has become a popular method. Almost any evening 'after drill husky young bluejackets may be seen in the company streets skipping skip-ping rope. Dr. John B. Kaufman, athletic officer, offi-cer, says It makes them alert, gives them control of their muscles and increases in-creases their lung power. The distances between buildings and encampments on the military reservation reserva-tion there are thousands of acres have popularized another form of exercise, ex-ercise, bicycle riding. A wheel rack has been erected in front of the administration ad-ministration building, and scores of officers and chief petty officers, some of the latter hnving stripes on their sleeves showing upward of a quarter of century of service on the deep sea, ride back and forth over the station, apparently getting as much fun out of it as the small boy with his first wheel. |