Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-10-11 | Page 3 | Yanks are Ture Sportsmen

YANKS ARE TRUE SPORTSMEN Soldiers Made Better Fighters by Indulging In-dulging in Baseball, Boxing, Wrestling Wres-tling and Soccer. 'Our soldiers in France are the finest fin-est sportsmen in the world. Their sportsmanship is manifested in everything every-thing they do. What is more, the sports our men are playing overseas such as baseball, football and soccer and boxing and wrestling, are making them better fighters." This statement was made by Raymond Ray-mond B. Fosdick, chairman of the war department commission on training camp activities, who returned recently from the American front in France, where he made a two months' study of the relief and recreational work that is being carried on among the expeditionary ex-peditionary forces. "The men play at every opportunity, and it seems that they instinctively turn to athletics for their amusement. I have seen soldiers return to their rest billets after a 'hard go' in the trenches and immediately begin to play baseball, football and soccer and engage en-gage in boxing and wrestling bouts, tired as they were. "Baseball is the most popular of the sports. One day I witnessed a game in the historic Tuilleries garden in Paris between American soldiers and sailors stationed there. The next day up near the front lines I saw troops who were to make an attack on the following morning playing as long as daylight permitted."