New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-03
poratlons to spend in providing suitable play

porations to spend in providing suitable play
grounds for the students
swer should be quite different. Pennsylvania Is
the only college Of the four having such a deficit
this year. What Is the cause? In the first place
Pennsylvania was the only university this year
of the four which kept up the custom Of summer
practice in football. Besides $0OI6 IO for TOOL
ball expense" the accounts show $3lt' 80 Tor
transportation and hotels; $1512 IL for train
ing table: ST 900 II for uniforms" Princeton's
ing table" S2.SO3 81, and 1860 81 for travelling
expenses" and no item to offset the $1,000 loot
ball expense Item Of the Pennsylvania At the
same time 1t should pe borne In mind that the
Pennsylvania Athletic Association spent ~. :
$40 % in improving Its athletic grounds and
that alone would more than wipe out the defcit
Then. too. the association started in with a debt
OF over $1,000 at the beginning Of the season.
However, in whatever way the reasons may be
given to explain deficit. II still remains bad
influence and an unnecessary contingency FOR q
university receiving In one year nearly $41,OOO
for athletic purposes to run over that amount In
expenses
The whole question Is one which would never
become a subject of discussion II the amount OF
money involved were not go large. IT, for In
stance. each college spent 81. 900 or $4,000 year
in all its athletic sports. and received $4,000 or
$4,000. no one. not even the faculties themselves
would take any account Of II. In fact. twenty
years ago these amounts were about the figure
perhaps. and no one troubled his head about
them Undergraduate captains OF teams APP
pointed their friends as managers OF their teams
THESE men worked or not as they liked. ana the
accounts were kept one way or another. Some
of them were most fearfully and wonderfully
made. Is the principle changed in any way by
multiplying the receipts and expenditures by
ten? 1t would hardly seem Naturally the
responsibility Of watching and accounting for
$4,000 is greater than for $1,000, but this has
been attended 10 by the faculties. and now re-
spOnsible and older accountants have these
larger funds In charge. But why it should he
right for team to spend $1,000 I'm a season and
receive $500. and wrong for 1t to receive $685.
600 and spend 100000. Is not clear to the aver
age mind.
In the olden days teams played with other
teams Of the same college. and perhaps met one
and at most two outside teams. the men
ing up from New Haven to Harvard at their own
expense and playing in clothes paid for by them
selves Now. with the refinements and the skill
of the games men are, and have to be.
carefully trained That requires trainers.
who have TO he paid; the replacing Of
uniforms that are torn, and better and bet
ter boats. launches and training quarters.
If nobody went to see the games and races and
the undergraduate bled to the extent Of
$4,000 to pay for ali this, there might be some
good sense in the advice recommending the stop
ping Of it all. But when people gladly pay this
to see the games and many are turned away
and are not allowed to pay because there Is no
more room for them, 1t does not seem materially
wrong for the men to spend some of this In per-
fecting their sports-provided always that they
do not run into debt, and especially II they pay
for their fields and training houses. which are
thrown open to all the students Of their uni
versity. whether they belong to their team or
any team no team.