History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . ch-ing, while relay races, football passing and other purely athleticstunts added an interesting note. Great care had been taken in organ-izing the athletic work of the Division and in choosing the officials,whose work had to be accurate and speedy, as only three days train-ing was given the men who were to compete. The morning of the meetdawned with everything set to start the schedule of the meet, whichcalled for three days of competitions to end at a certain hour on thethird day. The meet closed two minutes ahead of schedule, and aclock could not hav
History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . ch-ing, while relay races, football passing and other purely athleticstunts added an interesting note. Great care had been taken in organ-izing the athletic work of the Division and in choosing the officials,whose work had to be accurate and speedy, as only three days train-ing was given the men who were to compete. The morning of the meetdawned with everything set to start the schedule of the meet, whichcalled for three days of competitions to end at a certain hour on thethird day. The meet closed two minutes ahead of schedule, and aclock could not have run with greater smoothness, and 30,000 spec-tators pronounced it the snappiest and most interesting athletic spec-tacle so far produced in the area. Just before the close of February, word was received that theAmerican Embarkation Center was to be represented in the A. E. by a team of its own instead of being part of the S. , as was originally planned. Less than five weeks was the time given In the Le Mans Area 85. DIVERSIFIED ATHLETICSI ^A ^ S. Championship. 2. General Pershing Trap Shooting at Belgian Camp. S and O. S. Championship. 4. Basket ball, Class Camp. 6 and 7. Boxing, Jacibins (hardens 86 History of the Y. M. C. A. in which to pick teams in soccer and Rugby football, basketball, boxing,wrestling and track, and in which to run the elimination events. It wasactually March 10 before any real action could be taken for gettingmen and materials together, owing to the fact that there was no athleticofficer and the Y. M. C. A. organization was in its infancy. Time wasshort and topnotch speed was required to put the job across. The Yhad 23 athletic secretaries, out of which 12 gave practically their fulltime to the working up of the A. E. C. meet. The Army had eightofficers who were giving all the time they could spare; the K. of one athletic secretary, giving his full time, and the other welfareorganizations had no one to help. Classifica
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