KFKU = May 4, 1944

With the rising tide of might of the Allies surging ageinst the Axis
powers, postwar preparations of the Allies are being actively carried forward.
Postwar preparations are also definitely being made by the athletic departments
of all universities and colleges in preparing for the peace era after the war.

After every great war there has been a resurgence of athletic activities
when the men are returned to peacetime pursuits. Depressions have always
followed a war, And the men returning therefrom have used their physical
skills in games and sports for financial remmeration. Not only do amateur .
games increase manyfold, but professional games have been inaugurated during
these peace time depressions, The Civil War was responsible for the develop-
ment of professional baseball on a large scale. World War One served as &
foundation for professional football and the revivification of professional
baseball. World War Two will contribute definitely to a number of professional
basketball leagues as well as multiplying severalefold the professional football
leagues, together with professional baseball becoming an international sport.

Seretators, the World Series in baseball has been a contest between the
winners of the National lenges pennant and the winners of the American League
pennant. That championship has been called the World's championship, when
really it has been the national championship of North America. | But in the
future it is not difficult to envision a world's championship in baseball where
several nations my meet to decide the world's championship. |

There are many who contend ‘that 4f we have international sports and games
between all the countries of the world a better understanding would be 2 and
we would have fewer wars. Be that as it may, it is a certainty that we will
have a surging revival of sports and games the like of which the world has

never seen before.

Athletics have been accepted as an integral factor in building morale among