The age-herald., 1900-03-11

your not getting college athletes from over there, should say that you could expect to approach them on equal terms. If you can secure the college athletes from Eng land, why not try to hold big dual meet between the winners of the Oxford-Cam- bridge meet and the winners of the Yale Harvard meet or between the winners in our intercollegiate games, and the best team some representative English amateur can select to bring over here from their college? Casper Whitney of Harper's Week. ly or John Corbin, who is also employed by Harper Bros, can talk about the pos abilities of such a gathering.
 Why not make special effort to bring to thls country that crowd of wonderful Irish athletes, who were touted to come over in 1899? See If their great 25-foot broad jumping schoolmaster can beat our man Kraenzlein There are the South Aus traffans. too, who are credited with smash ing the sprinting and jumping records of Americans and Englishmen. They also promised to come this way. but have not done so as yet. If all these could be gath- cred to try out their records at the Pan American exposition, 1t would be the rarest competition ever yet. Old Olympus would be in the shade for achievement.
 "AS to programme, modification of the OlYmpian games to suit. I believe the meet should center mainly around the distinc- lively track and field games-individual
 
 "Why not make a bid for athletes from Hawaii Americas new territory? There are athletes there. Good ones too they say. They are Simon Pure amateurs, too, and excel as oarsmen and swimmers, and suppose aquatic sports will be feature. If Hawaiians are wanted, use my name with l.. c. Atkinson, assistant attorney general Of Hawaii at Honolulu, and he will aid. He was formerly baseball manager and was ac- tive in athletics at Ann Arbor.
 No Place for Professionals
 q suppose the carnival will be an anna teur affair. It would be incongruous to put professional events in a tumble with anna teur events. Besides, that is no place for professionals. They make athletics a busi- ness-the Pan American committee should make sport something ideal-something like it was in the early days of Greece. The carnival should have an educational value on the youth of the country, as well as tenn porary spectacular value If strictly anna teur, it can be force in keeping forward the interests of clean sport in this country. It would be wise to improve the opportuni- ty of giving the first big scoped affair of this kind in the country, by looking care fully after the personnel of a national com mittee of management to act with the ex- position committee on sport not burdened with the details, but lending their names and the benefit of experience and acquaint- ance. Such men as Walter Camp and Charles H. Sherrl of Yale, Casper Whit ney and John Corbin of New York, A. A. Stagg of Chicago university, and string of men who have gained prominence in in tercollegiate sport in this country, would add vast lot of prestige to the exposition games, as well as valuable lot of service and help.
 T should say it would be wise to make a strong feature of college contests. You can best attract general attention that way. There has never been square, out-and-out test of strength in any branch of sport be- tween the eastern colleges and the middle west colleges. Why not arrange for a dual meet between the winners of the events of the big intercollegiate meet in New York In 1901 and the winners of the inter- collegiate meet in Chicago. I think 1t could