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The best of all sports for this purpose are those which follow the Macedonian rather than the Greek model: big-game hunting, mountaineering, the chase with horse and hound, all wilderness life with all its keen, hardy pleasures.
Now, athletic sports, if followed properly, and not elevated into a fetish, are admirable for developing character, besides bestowing on the participants an invaluable fund of health and strength.
Already this awakening of interest in manly sports, this proper care of the body, have had a good effect upon our young men; but there are, of course, accompanying dangers in any such movement.
Portrays the dynamic history of sports in Ohio, including the accomplishments of our state's athletes, the emergence of organized professional sports, and the significance of amateur sports as a leisure activity.
Sports and athletic activities have been important part in the lives of Ohioans since the state's settlement in the 1780s.
After the Civil War, and especially at the end of the nineteenth century, professional baseball and football teams were established, and amateur sports clubs formed in the growing numbers of city gymnasiums.
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