The Oklahoma City times. [volume], November 09, 1918, LATE STREET EDITION, Page ELEVEN, Image 11

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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 ground
ers and have a catch. He has learned two new games
bomb-ball and volley-ball and he has introducecLone-o'-cat to the
vacant lots of France.
"Come on, buddie! Put it over the pan!" ho yells, and tbVpan
is the tin hnt which ho 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 uniformthe uniform of our fighters overseas.
There's military value in these sports, tho 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
ity coluiftn and made into assets. Play means an outlet for surplus
energies, and an intake for morale.
From the start tho job of putting system into sports has
been entrusted to these agencies of morale. They have provided
halls and gloves and bats and masks and nets. They have
rounded up -2,000 of this country's best directors of athletics.
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 mm tt
$170,500,000.
By giving to these seven organizations all at once, the cost and
effort of six additional campaigns is saved.
Unlets 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 supplying 3,000,000 books
85 Hostess Houses
15,000 Big-brother "secretaries" .
Millions of dollars of home comforts
When you give double, you make sure that every fightef has
the cheer and cqmforts of these seven organizations every step of
the way from home to the front and back again. You provide nim
with a church, a theatre, a cheerful home, a 6tore, a school, a club
and an athletic field and a knowledge that the folks back home
are with him, heart and soul!
You have loaned your money to supply their physical needs.
Now give to maintain the Morale that is winning the war!
They have sent the kind of men who can make up new game?
to suit conditions and who can organize tho 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 aro billeted. And
more must follow every week.
They Bay tho Germans havo no lovo of sports. That may
explain a lot of things! Let's keep our boys as fond of play a
when they left for France 1
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