Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1918 — ATTENTION PAID TO SPORTS [ARTICLE]

ATTENTION PAID TO SPORTS

What Games Have Been Permitted and Encouraged Have Been Helpful in Training. ? 'Borne people are beginning to think that the army is paying a little too much attention to sports, but they are people who are not very sympathetic with sports anyway. The fact of toe matter is that so far as the records that have come to my attention disclose •no American army officer has permitted sports to Interfere with the regular military requirements of training, or otherwise, says a writer in Milwaukee Sentinel. What sports have been permitted and encouraged have been helpful to that purpose. Of course now that prominent baseball players are getting into the army, thy* game has attracted more attention, and there are those who think that it has been given too much prominence. They simply are worrying about something that Is not, and something that ought not to scare tom.