Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1918 — POSTWAR SPORT BOOM SEEN BY PILKINGTON [ARTICLE]

POSTWAR SPORT BOOM SEEN BY PILKINGTON

Jim Pilkington, president of the Association of Amateur Oarsmen, sees a brilliant prospect for all athletic sports when peace is declared, says the Great Lakes Bulletin, official naval station publication. Pilkington, whose active association with the government body in rowing goes back to 1876—-within a decade of the end of the Civil war—believes that conditions following the grqat war will be much the same ab those which Were experienced here in the reconstruction period. “The Civil war, or rather the ending of it, gave sport its impetus in this country,** said Pilkington. “Because Uncle Sam is practically making -athletics compulsory in the land and naval, forces, hundreds and thousands of young men who never before engaged in sport have become active and enthusiastic athletes. It is easy to see what the result will be when the war ends.”