Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — RENAISSANCE OF ALL SPORT [ARTICLE]

RENAISSANCE OF ALL SPORT

Baseball, Boxing, Tennis and Other Forms of Athletic Activity to . Gain in Popularity. .With the end of the world war, the renaissance of sport should begin at once. In the next few years baseball, football, boxing, tennis, racing, golf and other forms of athletic activity should attain a popularity never before known. The wonderful work of the United States army in France attests to- the value of athletics in the training of men as nothing else could, writes John P. Sinnott in New York Evening Mail/ Our boys were not bred soldiers. They were bred athletes. But it did not take them long to acquire such military training as fitted them to more than hold their own on the battlefield with the picked troops of the German empire. There will be plenty of baseball the coming year. The game has spread to France, England and Italy. Whether or not the big league stars in the army and navy are mustered out in time to play in 1919, there seems to be little doubt that the National and American leagues will resume playing.* " The nation will demand its national game. It will need it as never before. It will need and desire all other forms of competitive sport. ‘A renaissance Is at hand.