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...only natural that this custom has not changed. We are a sport-loving people and need entertainment. We have already had a year of war with, unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state...
...equipment are here, but now they are here to help everyone, the athlete and him who aspires as well. To be a successful soldier one must have strength and endurance, but no more than the ordinary man can obtain if he takes part in some form of sport...
Football, like other sports, is taking a modest place in the scheme of young men's activities. Yet what football there is, will undoubtedly be well worth watching. In the middle ages the CRIMSON players used to shudder at the Eli menace. Today "the informals," those loyal survivors of the sport in the University, are facing a foe more formidable than the Bulldog in his halcyon days. Whereas "All American" elevens have in the past been mythical, they may in the near future be actual organizations. Each military cantonment plans to have its team...
...cross-country candidates, Coach Edward Farrell will be at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 5 o'clock, and all from the Freshman and other classes who wish to take advantage of this fall training are to report at that time. Cross-country men are particularly wanted. In this sport also, it is hoped that informal races will be held with teams in the vicinity of Boston. The great use which has been made of distance runners in the French army as agents de liaison demonstrates the practical value of this branch of sport...
...squad and the others will be divided up into scrub teams. If enough interest is shown in these informal organizations, it is likely that games will be arranged for them with teams from Westfield, Boxford, Newport and other camps and naval stations. The other branches of fall sport will be carried on in the same informal way as football...