Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — Learn Our Games. [ARTICLE]

Learn Our Games.

Filipinos are taking to American sports so rapidly that chicken fights are fast losing favor in the Islands. Baseball, of course, is the fancied sport in the islands, as it is bound to be in any place that is under th* influence of the United States army and navy, a* well as that of college men who fare forth as civil service employes, teachers and uplift workers, but the American national game dot* not possess a monopoly of Filipino popularity. Tennis, football, and even golf find favor In the eye* of th* far east, and another game played widely and much admired there is volley ball. There are more than 4,000 volley ball equipments in the Philippines, and they are pretty widely scattered. It le aJUve\y game, and one In which the natural quickness of th* reformed head hunters 1* * useful a*< set