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Show Cities Paid $18,816,000 for Play in Year 1925 American grownups, reputed by their foreign cousins to be chiefly in- terested in money grabbing, are learning learn-ing how to play more every year. In the year book of the Playground and Recreation Association of Amor-lea, Amor-lea, published recently, an expenditure of $13,816,160.55 is shown by cities of the United. States and Canada. Public golf, which five years ago was not important enough to list in the year book, Is now played in more than j 150 cities. Tennis courts totaled 6.110 in 474 cities in 1925, as against 4.SG5 In 410 cities In 1924. Swimming pools primarily for adult use more than doubled In the last five years and now total 879. Five hundred hun-dred more quoits courts were roported j in 1925 than in 1924. Ball fislds. a;h-lotic a;h-lotic fields, picnic grounds, and ,-knt-ing places also show big increases. Public recreation was originally a children's movement, but today everywhere every-where east of the Rockies except In North Carolina and Florida practically 50 per cent of the participants In municipal mu-nicipal sports and other recreatloni are adults. |