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He wants to play as
hard as he fights!
YOUR boy has carried his love of sports overseas. Almost
within4 hearing of the Hun, he wants to knock out ground
ers 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 pah
is the tin hat which he wore a few hours ago when he went over
the top to find the Hun. I
Further back, in the training areas, track athletics and boxing
are on an organize^ 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 liabil
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ity 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 bps
been entrusted to these agencies of morale. They have provided
balls and gloves and bats and masks and nets. They haVa
rounded up 2,000 of this country’s be^c directors of athletiis.
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| Why you should give twice us much as you |
ever gave before! • I
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.
I 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 beforpr our 8
soldiers and sailers may not enjoy during 1919 their
3600 Recreation Buildings
1000 Miles of Movie Film
100 Leading Stage Stars
2000 Athletic Directors
2500 Libraries supplying 3,000,000 book3
85 Hostess Houses
15,000 Big-brother “secretaries”
Millions of dollars cf 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 field—and a knowledge t-iat the loiirs back lioir.o n •
are with him, heart and soul!
You have loaned your money to supply 'their physical needs.
Now give to maintain the Morale thamS^yjrfing the war!;
B a '■ JBBBK£ 1 n'ttiilffM,'.ri’iTgiWi^a'M^.fc.wniliiii laUKtluautUMUMaMMWWWPWBiPM——1
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 placeu ior athletic
materials are the largest single orders now on record—enough to
go to every town and village where Americans are bilictcd. And
more must follow every week.
They say the Germans have no love of sports. That may
explain a lot of things! Let’s keep our boys as fond of play as
when they leA; for France! ,
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