Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1918 — ATHLETICS FOR ALL JACKIES [ARTICLE]

ATHLETICS FOR ALL JACKIES

Great Lakes Station Plans to Gl *e Every Sailor Chance to Demons! »ate His Skill. Dr. J. B. Kauffman, athletic officer at the Great Lakes naval statl <n, believes in giving every sailor a Jhance to get in sports. He doesn’t believe in confining athletics to the few who naturally were skilled enough to make the representative teams. That’s why Great Lakes' will house an inter-regiment basketball league this season. According to the plans, there will be 12 qulutes playing that represent various branches and regiments of the station. The drill halls, one on the main station, one in Camp Perry, and one in’ Camp Dewey, have been divided Into basket courts so there will bo plenty of room for all. Ih Camp Perry, which has a hall 200 yards long, six courts have been constructed. Dewey has four, and the mkln camp two.