Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — SEE GREAT BOOM IN SPORTS [ARTICLE]

SEE GREAT BOOM IN SPORTS

Many Returning Canadian Soldier* Have Picked Up New Game* While Fighting in France. /:■ ■ —— . • Canada Is looking forward to a great boom in all branches of sport with the completion of peace. The devotees of football, lacrosse, soccer, cricket, track and field athletics, lawn/bowlers, baseball, the turf and kindred recreations, are already pricking up their ears. “Canadian Sportsman” is quoted te the Hamilton Herald as saying: “An important factor will be the return of Canada’s 400,000 soldiers from France. These ,men have learned hoW to become participants in sport, and they have learned many new forms of sport. They have been bring in the oped and they wifl want considerable outdoor life, when they get back; Outdoor sport will appeal to them as it has ngver done before.” The fact that mafcv of these returning athletes are will not bar them from particWtlng te many forms of sport. Some of the apparently hopelessly /handicapped ones have already proved their surprising ability. _/