However, the First World War cancelled all athletics, as there were not enough men to field any teams.
SPORTS UNCERTAINTY -- Because of worries over the impending war, Major League Baseball canceled a season opener in Japan on Tuesday between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics.
The Civil Wars abruptly canceled their entire tour, offering "internal discord" as justification.
"We were going to wash away the traces of war, to cancel them," Ms. Moro said.
A year later, she was on the 1940 US Olympic team headed for Tokyo when the second world war intervened, cancelling the Games along with her hopes for international fame.
Off the field, Dale Petroskey, president of the Hall of Fame, angered baseball people by injecting the Hall into the debate over the Iraq war by canceling the 15th anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" at the Hall of Fame.
The Skyhawks did not see combat, and a planned deployment of some of their pilots to fight in the Vietnam War was cancelled before it took place.
Within a week, German forces had exhausted themselves against the Soviets' deeply echeloned and well-constructed defences and, for the first time in the war, Hitler cancelled the operation before it had achieved tactical or operational success.
To protest the Vietnam War, Mr. Hedrick canceled classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught.
Strikes at the Paris National Opera are hardly rare, with four of seven scheduled performances of Prokofiev's "War and Peace" canceled earlier this season.
