Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 308, 8 November 1918 — Page 8

PACE EIGHT

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-IELEGRAM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1918.

He wants to play as hard as he fights ! YOUR boy has carried his love of sports overseas. Almost within hearing of the Hun, he wants to knock out grounders and have a catch. He has learned two new games bomb-ball and volley-ball and he has introduced one-o'-cat to the vacant lots of France. "Come on, buddie! Put it over the pan!" he yells, and the pan is the tin hat which he wore a few hours ago when he went over the top to find the Hun. , Further back, in the training areas, track athletics and boxing are on an organized basis. There are "twilight leagues" where every unit in an area has its team. World's series players this year wear a new uniform the uniform of our fighters overseas. There's military value in these sports, the high officers believe. For play can turn a fighter's leisure hours into making him a better fighter. His periods of idleness are taken out of the liability column and made into assets. Play means an outlet for surplus energies, and an intake for morale. From the start the job of putting system into sports has been entrusted to these agencies of morale. They have provided balls and gloves and bats and masks and nets. They have rounded up 2,000 of this country's best directors of athletics.

UNITED WAR WORK

Why you should give twice as much as you

ever gave before! THE need is for a sum 70 greater than any gift ever asked for since the war began. The Government has fixed this sum at $170,500,000. By giving to these seven organizations all at once, the cost and effort of six additional campaigns is saved. Unless Americans do give twice as much as ever ..before, our soldiers and sailors may not enjoy during 1919 their 3600 Recreation Buildings ' 1000 Miles of Movie Film 100 Leading Stage Stars 2000 Athletic Directors 2500 Libraries supplying5,u00,000 books 85 Hostess Houses 15,000 Big-brother "secretaries' Millions of dollars of home comforts' When you give double, you make sure that every fighter has the cheer and comforts of these seven organizations every step of the way from home to the front and back again. You provide him with a church, a theatre, a cheerful home, a store, a school, a club and an athletic fieldand a knowledge that the folks back home are with him, heart and soul! You have loaned your money to supply their physical nee'dsV Now give Jo maintain the Morale that is winning the war!

They have sent the kind of men who can make up new games to suit conditions and who can organize the old games well. The orders which these organizations have placed for athletic materials are the largest single orders now on record enough to . go to every town and village where Americans are billeted. And more must follow every week. They say the Germans have no love of sports. That4 may explain a lot of things! Let's keep our boys as fond of play as when they left for France!

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Paid for by the Following Merchants: Jenkins and Co.' Starr Piano Co. Chenoweth Auto Co. Geo. H. Knollenberg Neff & Nusbaum American Trust and Savings Co. Jordan, McManus & Hunt Reed's Haner The Boston Store Price's Confectionery Richmond Light, Heat & Power

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Anchor Fuel Co. J. B. Holthouse W. B. Fulghum Sam Fred New Method Shoe Store Richmond Lumber Co. O. D. Bullerdick Kennedy Clothing Co. Stanley Plumbing Co. Doan & Doan Ackerman Ed. Wilson Jones Hardware Co. .

for by the Following Merchants

Irvin Reed and Son

Vigran's Ladies' Shop Ferd Grot house Model Clothing Co. Second National Bank Dickinson Trust Co. Richmond Coal Co. Thomas and Wessel B. Johnson & Son Feltman's Hoosier Store Railroad Store

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