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ATHZ4TIQO LD OS oe Physical Training Than Those-f Other Lands. Snited'*tates soldier is tough AA stronger-physically tougher woheve before the Spnish is not the war which is to be 'l foi it. Athletic training has e work. iis' said by Army and Navy Life hat'this coIintry gives far more at ei4on to the physical culture of its oldiers than does either Great Brit ni Fi-ance or Germiany" While they quire a daily setting up exercise lar to our own these gun calis enles and other prescribed forms 'of ele stretching are supplemented this country by.athletic Aports. hese are not.compulsory. They do need to be. They have been en d into' so heartily that every post any size has its organization which eks its crack team, its football elev in.or its baseball team. This is just hat the war department wants them to do, as it has organized a bureau "or the encou'ragement of athletics. ,Nearly every garrison has its com niitt.ee, consistinig of at least one com nissioned officer in addition to non ommissioned officers and privates, to arrange pirogrammes for field days, prganize teams and pick out the star men of the command to represent it .- the various events. / The soldiers themselves have so villingly fallen in with the idea that they have contributed to paying for the outfits needed, and some of the garrisons support gymnasiums, which are equiplied .with the latest designs of chest weights, rowing machines and horses, as well as bars, trapeze, rings :,and a supply of foils and boxing .gloves. If the post is too small to allow an independent athletic field it is laid out on the drill ground, with a dia mond, a running track and supports for basketball. When the pigskin season opens the field becomes a foot 'hall oval. The average soldier would not be much of an American if he were not fond of baseball, while he makes a first-class man on the football teum 'because the daily routine keeps him hard yet wiry and supple, and gives him plenty of wind. Within the last two years college elevens have sought matches with military teams because they got such. "fine practice,'' to quote the trainer, but the practice has more than once ended in the soldiers .scoring every point. But the garrison bets its money on others besides its nine and eleven. It has its high jumper, its long distance runner and sprinter, its strong men, -who can put the shot and throw the hammer, while its team in the relay race is carefully selected for fleet pAss 'and endurance. The athletic -committee often has its hands full to select entries for a field day-not d 'roni lack of material, but because there are so many good men 'from whom to choose. ~~hen it comes to a bout with glove som~'e of those who doff the uniform to don the tights are experts. While the war dlepartment is not supposed to encourage prizefights, many a liv.e ly bout i~s fought here and there iii the,.g.arrisons, just as the men of the navy have a habit of settling dif ferenees in the same wvay. There is no-objection to glove fights in the arnhy, however, and they are fre quently on the list of indoor events, whiich serve to relieve the monotony of winter duit., 'Any one who studies the sp)orting records and compares what the men in uniform can (10 with the work of *the so-called pr(ofessionals and crack amal eurs among the civilians may be astonished at the large niumber of sol diers who have made high averages in this or that event. *The first -post field diay was held year several commandlers organized their first baseball nine. This is es pecially trusne in the east, where the enthusiasm for athletics has not be come so intense as in the wvest, al though each year finds more and more interest in it ; but in the wvestern mil - itary departmenits competition in field an etak athletics. is keen, especial 1y' between garrisons. The colonel or major willingly. cbnsents to act as oneside the judges, the cap)tain puts Caiehis dignity to act as starter in he races. For the timd rank is for otteni in the interest isi this man or t team.. o of the most'spectacular exer <sometimes included in the wvest # storming of an imaginary for ,whose apparently imp)regnable must be sealed without any ar.. 1 aid whatever. The rampart e fort is a fence of smooth a, thiirtee'n feet high. If, would p gsible for a single athlete to or to ascend it by pressing tits surface with hands and but a squad' of men can sur muoutit it- in losstli hilf 4.minute. The: .aedk :s made ..in: '. colinm fou abres4i the t rauk men far enough in Advaie to have time to brace their baeks against the wall be fore the next file reaches it. Each of the se*eond four jumps with one foot upon the clwped hands of a soldier in the, first. file, who forms a human OYrIng, pushinig the oth6r man up un tic he' can catch the. top of the wall with his fingers, pull himself up, and drop,down oil the~other side. Up comes the. next file and the movement is .epeated until the lifters alone remain. Two of the four go up with the aid of their comrades, and bracing themselves on the top, lean over to catch the hands of the pair below, who reach4d them by a running junip and are pulled up by- main strength. Perhaps the most remarkable -feat in this. whole series of movements is that of carrying dead and wounded meir over the wall. Tie soldier who is supposed to be killed or maimed is taken up on a human platform con posed of twelve men. Two suspended from the top keep the second tier of men from falling while two between them are ready to pull up the victim. He is lifted from the ground by four otheis, who i turn are supported on the back of the first tier. After the body is ear ried over, the other follow, using the same method as before. A man caii be lifted from the ground and deposit ed on the other side of the wall in less than a minute in this manner. While this interest in physical cul ture has already had a notable effect in making the plain private stronger and hardier it is of great importance in other ways. The number of arrests of soldiers for petty offences, such as drunken ness, has rapidly decreased recently, because they do not frequent the grog shops and worse esorts to such an ex tent as formerly. Every post conmander well knows why these dens are to be found just outside the limit of every government reservation. It is human nature -to crave some sort of recreation or amusement. If the enlisted man can 'not have something with which to di vert himself at the post lie is too apt to seek it at one of these places, es pecially since the abolishment of the post canteen, with the result that lie is often taken out of it by the corpor al of the guard or the police, crazed by the liquor poison old under the name of whiskey. The ball match and the field day have not only given him something to work for but to talk about and think about. Here is a healthy sort of amusement which interests any man who has good red blood in him. When the match is pulled off between the postsl he may not be in pne the teams, but he is just as much interested when, 'with his comrades, lie cheers for his side. The sporting spirit is also develop ing esp)rit de corps, b)ringing offeers and menmmore closely together, since both are inter~ested in the common cause. In the mutual desire to see ''our man'' make the highest jump or~ ''our clb' run up the highest score rank and file have a bond of synmpathmy between them. Set a New Mark in Theatricals. The Southern tour of ''The Clans man'' in .195-19%i 'w a remark tl)e new .unrk. for~ th <wc'age suce s, wh'lile i- do.cwed .ither mnana4r.ir :he possi.' :1tias . a ar. .\maericanl la~y do.il ing '.:a anbjectl of prI ..f umnd i-.l"r est t o -verv \" -an a ~i-'((clnpied as nmuch space in 'the piiblic prints as henw - 'i onersin e . veryw here. Repo)0 receiv(.l by iM:-.nage (George IL. D): ' fre ni . i i er :he mizh ind11 - that "Theii ('in i--:aan" will enjoy e. 1 .te Ir vi'gue (if Ihal be P" .e :" this season1. T' Iose w~ho wit nessed it befon are anIxious to study and av.i'v u :t :. a I these~ who were disappointed oni the preC viouis visit will leave no .stone unturn ed1 to it this time. 'rt's welcome news to patronis of Newberry opera -house thant "T 'he Clansman,'' in its enlarg ed1 and improved form, is booked to play t here on Monday, Mar ch :18th. An Offer That Was Not Declined. Thlomas, Dixoni, ,Jr., athor of ''8h0 Clansman,'' last winter offered to contribute $10,000 from the p)rofits of the playto Tuskegee institute if Book cir T. Washingtonm would come for wardl and( prove that he was person ally opposed to the .social equality of the white and colored races. The offer is still standing. The inulatto president ,of Tuskegee is mum. Mr. Dixon 's play, wvhich handles the no ~negio prIoblem without giloves and draws valuable lessonms from the dreadfulh even1s)f R econstruction, wuill be seen again in this city at the S. R. 0. For "The 0lanscan." Managers WVells & Fsarhardt of the city opera hmouse is' polishing up the opnAPhus QOln Mon1ayn 18th March.s 8tandin IRom Only atid rrekList Suspided signs for the return visit of fThe ,Qlansman'" on March ..18. The recordi of the play last ye4r was capacity. business throughout the en t4re. season, and 'those who wish to see it liow would better send in their orders at once. 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