Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1915 — SPORT NOW DEAD IN CANADA [ARTICLE]

SPORT NOW DEAD IN CANADA

Hundreds of Leading Athletes of Dominion Have Shouldered Guns and Are Fighting in Europe. Sport throughout the Dominion of Canada is as dead as the proverbial doornail. The reason for it all is the war, and until the great European conflict has passed into history Canadians will be without sport on a major -scale. Efforts to hold local tournaments and national track and fieM championships have been fairly successful, but on the whole interest has, been lacking. Numbered among the thousands of Canadians who have. shouldered the gun and are now fighting for the empire are hundreds of the leading athletes of the dominion. Many have fallen in battle and lie “somewhere in France,” with a small headstone to mark their last resting place.