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WISE OWL

By GENE SULLIVAN
News-Press Sports Editor

 

 

More Soldier Equipment

We haven’t said anything for more than/
a week about The News-Press sports and |
games equipment pool for the permanent per- |
_ sonnel at the Fort Leavenworth, Kan., recep- |
tion center but items continue to dribble in, so it might be a good.
time to state that articles will be accepted so long as the fans are
willing to dig them out.

 

 

 

This idea of getting together equipment for the soldiers
over in northeast Kansas appealed to us on one particular
point. This is one of the few instances when an individual
knows exactly where his donation is going. Everything that
has been turned in to The News-Press sports desk has gone
into the equipment room at the reception center and is on
call there for the use of the more than 500 men required to
staff the induction point.

And the gratitude of the men is heart-warming. They are o
routine duties that have to be enlivened by some sort of recreation
that is readily available and free. The equipment which has been
dcnated by the St. Joseph residents will go a long way toward
taking up the slack of leisure hours.

Jerseys From K. U.

Included in recent donations not before listed is a set of Uni-
versity of Kansas baseball uniforms, 31 sets of knee pads and a pair
of basketball shoes collected by Dr. F, C. Allen, the Jayhawks’ head
cage mentor and intramural director. H. D. Bradley, publisher of
The News-Press and The Gazette, has donated a set of softball uni-
forms. This set, along with one presented by
Dick Young on behalf of the St. Joseph Paper
Box Company and others from Kansas City, will -j
make it possible for the center to have a uniformed
softball league.

And a set of dominoes to top all previ-
ous sets of dominoes has also come in.
It was presented by Ben Mangus, 3008
Edmond street, and is a set of double 15s.
He also presented a baseball and a book.
Another unusual piece of game equipment
is a plate glass checkerboard presented
by H. G. Rix. Half of the squares on the :
board are of gold leaf. Morton Kranitz DE ne:
has donated three baseballs, a softball and a tennis racket.

These donations are pretty representative of the sort of things |
that are needed at Fort Leavenworth. We are sure that there are a
lot more pieces of equipment in closets and attics that the men could |
use, We're going to ask the fans once more to take a look around
and call us if they find anything. And it’s not too late for the sport-
ing goods dealers to check over their stocks. They surely have some
items that are just taking up space on their shelves but which would |
come in handy at Fort Leavenworth.