#2 Mr. John R.Tunis

February 25, 1935
between Seaslese aR sopvidins vol games. Especially do you
strengthen this belief when you say to me that basket ball “is a young
man's game. You can't play it at 40. The games that are growing to-

day are the games that older men can play."

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= Yet nowhere in your article was the

reader made to understand that you were drawing fine lines between
youth-sports and maturity-sports.

ee ig I fear that you have an improper con-
ception of sports. The game fitted for a man of 40 shoeta not neces-
sarily @ played by boys of the teen age. Game s suited to the physical
and moral growth of the boy are gesefclly ectielte it would be
a poor plight to teach the young boys games in—their—teenms,_-games that
men past 40 enjoy. Fighting games with contact and combat, which de-
velop the qantieri of @ourage, Romance and girama are necessities,
"Man is an omnibus in which all of his ancestors ride." |

) The English conception of a gentleman
is that you should learn fo play one game well, It is for the purpose
of acquiring game sense to teach sportsmanship in the growing boy,
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game that the educators of America

 

incorporated athleties in our school system. Education through play
is as sound today for the high school and college boy as was Froebel'ts
theory which he prescribed for the kindergarten age utara ar eat

We have our youth for play and eee |

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facetious and to state that many men
past 40 are permitting gin to do the thing for them in the way of a kick or
pickup that exercise would have done had they indulged in the struggle

or fighting games during the early period of their youth, Cautirseg Pe
eis fells ey oer e : |