Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1918 — KEEPING IN PHYSICAL TRIM [ARTICLE]

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 ways of keeping iriphysical trim. With approximately 1,500 track athletes 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 rope. Dr. John B. Kaufman, athletic officer, says it makes them alert, gives them control of their muscles and increases their lung power. The distances between buildings and encampments on the military reservation—there are thousands of acres—have popularized* another form of exercise, bicycle riding. A wheel rack has been erected in front of the administration building, and scores of officers and chief petty officers, some of the latter having 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.