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The author shares his views on the tendency of children in the U.S. to forget to play. According to historian Carroll Quigley, as the amount of leisure time increases, there is also an increased possibility for public spectacles to replace private games. Social and psychological pressures are contributing to the disappearance of private games. Some of private games that children should learn to play are one-mile-brick-pull , mumblety peg, and paper-rock-scissor game.

The article profiles paper company executive and amateur golfer Clark Graebner. He was ranked fourth among golf amateurs in the U.S. in 1967. However, in the midseason voting for worldwide player of the year in 1968, he was ranked eighth among all contenders. He attributes his success in the sport to the backhand motion which he learned from John Newcombe, and to the tubular steel racket he purchased in 1967.

Presents several letters to the editor. Publications of early history of the Capitol in Washington; Views of students about the curriculum of University; Discussion about the list of plays for amateurs.

This section offers news briefs on sports. Australians who were eager to watch the 1956 Melbourne Olympics were disappointed to see world-record miler John Landy fail to reach his goal due to inflamed tendons in both legs. Pandemonium broke out in Iowa after its football team upset Ohio State and won a Rose Bowl cup after missing it in 34 years and a chance to play in the Big Ten Conference championship games. Lee Shaeffer, owner of the oldest floating football pool in North America, was charged with running a betting house in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

This section offers news briefs concerning sports. New York Supreme Court Justice Walter A. Lynch has ruled against runner Wes Santee in the case against the American Athletic Union which instigated a lifetime ban against him for demanding fees for performances. Charles Martin, manager of 1930s professional boxer Jimmy McLarnin, has died. The Bay Meadows horse track in San Mateo, California overpaid daily double players after the machine miscalculated the amount that should be paid to winners.

This section offers news briefs on sports events and personalities as of March 1956. Despite not making the world record after offering help to a fallen co-runner, John Landy still managed to recover and won the Australian track and field championships in Melbourne, Victoria. A judge suspended the lifetime ban by the American Association of Universities on Wes Santee until a formal trial was held concerning his amateur status. The Rhode Island legislature honored hockey player Camille Henry and basketball player Billy Von Weyhe.

The article covers issues in sports as of August 29, 1955. Brooklyn Dodger president Walter F. O'Malley has announced his plan to construct a 21st century ball park in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. The Republic Steel golf team tied with General Electric Jet Engines at the end of the first day of the Midwest Industrial Golf Tournament in Canton, Ohio. Japanese swimmers were outperformed by the U.S. despite the former's efforts to upset the latter.

A letter is presented from Amateur Artist Association of America (AAAA) president Arthur L. Guptill which encourages the readers to drop by the AAAA office to lend a hand, be a live member, and form a chapter. He mentions the bills being paid by the AAAA, and stresses the important role of the chapters in AAAA's objectives. Some testimonials from AAAA members on how the Association helped them are also included.

The article offers news briefs on several amateur artists. Jimmie James was able to produce a charcoal portrait that has rich tonal qualities using three different grades of charcoal in pencil form. The New York College of Agriculture at Cornel is planning an exhibit of amateur farmers' painting similar to the one done in Wisconsin. The two-week exhibit of the Monday painters of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra is scheduled for March 6, 1951 at the Carnegie Hall Gallery.

The article presents the second part of a series of articles concerning oil painting for the amateur artist. It presents the color wheel that could help the amateur painter become acquainted with colors. It explains how to use the analogous colors, as well as the complementary colors in painting. The importance of color area and the relative positioning of colors in order to achieve excellent color schemes are also cited.

The article looks at the scandals involving skier Jean-Claude Killy and retired professional soccer player Stanley Matthews. The press in Paris, France claimed that Killy made some money beyond his official government employment as a customs official. "Le Canard Enchain" magazine has accused Killy of selling to "Paris Match" a photograph of himself wearing his Olympic gold medals. The British Football Association found Port Vale, the Fourth Division club managed by Matthews, guilty of several offenses, including recruiting underage boys.

The article looks at the decision of the United States Golf Association (USGA) in 1965 to remove the amateur status of talented golfer Floren DiPaglia due to his alleged involvement in gambling in 1965. Another golfer who suffered the same punishment was Junie Buxbaum in 1958. It mentions the arrest of DiPaglia in Des Moines, Iowa for allegedly offering to pay Drake University basketball player Ben Bumbry to lessen points in a game against Iowa State on December 27, 1953. A golfer says he intends to testify for DiPaglia at his amateur-status hearing.

The article features Joseph Charles Dey Jr., executive director of the U.S. Golf Association (USGA), which was founded in 1894 as the ruling body for amateur golf in the U.S. Dey heads a group of 15 men that rule on how the game of golf is played and holds office in the Golf House in New York City. Also discussed are Dey's campaign against gambling in golf, devotion to golf's amateur status and enforcement of golf ball standards.

The article features Long Island, New York-based Neal Shapiro, member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Equestrian team. Shapiro won the Aachen show jumping event in 1966 with his horse Jacks or Better and won the 1971 event riding Patrick Butler's gelding Sloopy. The article describes Shapiro's family, childhood, horses and businesses. It also cites the efforts of Shapiro to excel in horse shows despite his asthma and hay fever.

The article explores the popularity of hockey in the community of Dauphin, Manitoba. Because the economy of Dauphin is mostly based on farms, people have less activity during the winter, except playing hockey. Hockey is an all-encompassing game in Dauphin as it is also played by girls and middle-aged people. Also, most people in Dauphin are at home on Saturday nights, watching the National Hockey League (NHL) Hockey Night.

News briefs related to sports are presented. 19-year-old John Truden won the world heavyweight ski championship at a brisk competition in Maine in April 1969. Unetani Yoshiaki of Japan has ran the 26-mile Boston Marathon in two hours, 13 minutes and 49 seconds. Letters in "The Journal of the American Medical Association" have cautioned that plain old jogging can cause damage to pedal extremities if the jogger is not careful.

The article reports on the accusations of professionalism faced by skier Jean-Claude Killy in France. The International Ski Federation has investigated the issue, and if proven that Killy did not live to the definition of amateurism, the three Alpine-skiing gold medal he won at Grenoble will be confiscated. Killy denied the allegations and said that no one can morally take away the medals from him.

The youngest of New York's art museums has just made its bow to the public. The Museum of Modern Art, the creation of a group of prominent collectors and amateurs, has opened its doors in the Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-seventh Street. Just as the great Armory show of 1913 was the opening gun in the long, bitter struggle for modern art in this country, so the foundation of the new museum marks the final apotheosis of modernism and its acceptance by respectable society. As its name indicates, the new institution is to be devoted primarily to the work of living artists and their immediate predecessors. Wisely enough, its organizers plan to go slowly in the beginning and restrict its activities for the first two years to loan exhibitions; after that, if all goes well, the museum will begin to form a permanent collection.

The article discusses political thinking as a profession in the U.S. In view of the general low level of professional political thinking, it would seem to be a career wide open to amateurs. The professionals have sources, which are not open to the amateurs. The professionals read top-secret meaning fairly confidential documents, which they send around among themselves and they talk to each other at high-level conferences. The amateur has newspapers and other forms of public communication. Some political thinking has been also discussed in this article.

The article reports that Avery Brundage remains to be the dominant force in the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Brundage, who became a member of IOC in 1936, is the president since 1952. He served as the president of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1929 to 1953. His term as president of IOC will expire in October 1968. During its meeting, IOC has decided that athletes should disclose their sex and will sign a pledge that they will not engage in illegal drugs.