Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1918 — GOOD WORK FOR ALL SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOOD WORK FOR ALL SPORTS

How Soldiers and Sailors Are Trained Is Portrayed in Exhibit Models of Cantonments. How athletics are training out soldiers and sailors to be better fighters and incidentally providing them .with clean and wholesome recreation at the same time has been portrayed in the exhibit of the war and navy departments’ commissions on training camp activities which is touring the country as a part of the allied war exposition. A feature of the exhibit of the training camp commissions is a model of a modern cantonment. Inside the cantonment on the athletic field soldiers in miniature are to be seen engaging in boxing and wrestling, and playihg baseball, football, soccer and other, camp sports. The boxing drill, which shows a class of a thousand soldiers simultaneously learning the rudiments of the fistic art, is depicted in-a series of carefully colored pictures, while ‘motion pictures demonstrate how this sport is making our men better bayonet fighters.