Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1919 — REVIVAL OF CANADA SPORTS [ARTICLE]

REVIVAL OF CANADA SPORTS

Ice Hockey, Baseball and Other Athletic Events Promise to Be Petter Than Ever. Revival in sports such as Canada has never witnessed Js promised during the ensuing year. Ice hockey, the great national winter sport, is off with a rush. Clubs that have been dormant since the outbreak of the war are reorganized. Stars who have been at the front can’t wait to get out of khaki before getting on skates. And at every match the attendance is already double that of war days. The outstanding change, though, is the new atmosphere. The tension and anxiety is gone, the sense of repression which made every sporting event crowd in war days solemn and even mournful has vanished. The real holiday spirit has returned. There Is scarcely a village in the country that will not have its hockey team this year; and in the cities they are forming by the scores. There will be more hockey this winter than ever before. Already baseball plans for next summer are' under way. Canada hopes for the first time to be represented in, one of the big leagues. Varsity sports wilt scarcely get under way until the autumn of 1919. For five seasons the university athletic fields have been deserted, as the record of Canadian universities in the war was a sweeping one.