The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-16
AMATEUR SPORT.


Sometimes publication published
for an apparently small public reaches
a larger one through it's inherent good
qualities of such a character is Caspar
Whitney's magazine, Outing" When
it came into Mr.. Whitney's hands it
tanned articles upon hunting, fishing
and shooting with casual notices of
athletic sports of a very amateurish
type. This has all been changed. Mr..
Whitney has strengthened the letter
press, has improved the illustrations,
but above all has continued the work
of eIevating and cleaning athletics
which he began and carried on so ably
in his sporting page in Harper's Week
ly.
OF course Caspar Whitney is es-
sentiauy an Eastern man and is we'd
ded to Eastern ways, but he has very
high appreciation of the West, and can
overcome his prejudices in favor Of the
Eastern men. Indeed in his review Of
the football season though he ranks
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consin ", which Western men will not
agree with, yet he gives his reasons
for so ranking them, while he pays the
highest compliment to the true sport
ing spirit of the West. He says West
ern men, as a rule, are more genuine
than Eastern men, dissemble less, are
more stalwart in their actions and
more faithful to their ideals. There is
la real sense of the game for the
games sake"
Caspar Whitney's criticism of the
play of Michigan and Wisconsin runs
as follows: In style Of play, in run
ming with the ball, and in punting,
these two teams stand well up towards
the very head of American football; in
the handling of kicks and in highly
developed team play, however, they
are quite bit inferior to the Eastern
leaders. In respect to the ethics of the
game Michigan is easily the leader in
the West"
Some words upon the conduct Of
games by the Western colleges may be
taken to heart here. after the exhibit
ton we had recently upon our football
field. 1t is in this particular that Cas-
par Whitney does so much good tow
ards the rising generation, and ele-
Yates the tone Of sport. 1t is in this
manner that he shows his apprecia-
ton Of the sporting ethics of the West.
as compared with the laxity of them
sometimes in the East 1t is this which
should be considered by our own foot
ball and baseball players, and in fact
by all who engage in amateur sports.
The amateur sportsman has to live up
to an ideal, if he cannot do so, he had
better quit or else go into the profess
sional ranks. This is what Caspar
Whitney says upon the point:
Il was deeply impressed by the con-
duct of the two final great games of
the West, Michigan-Iowa, and Wiscon-
sin-ChicagO, in Chicago. The play
went on without delay and without
some agent or other Of one side fire.
quently running onto the field to de-
liver some message from the coach, and
sponge or bottle or pail by
way Of subterfuge. There was no
coaching from the side lines; there
were no men on the side lines but the
single coach Of each team; there were
only the substitutes and the two or
three assistant coaches inside the
fence. Think of it-ye Eastern men
4 field with no side line benches to ac-
'ommodate the friends of the college
These We're the best con-
iucted games l have ever seen, and
)ut our Harvard Yale, Princeton
games to very shame by comparison"
1t is good for a country to have a
healthy athletic periodical which is on
such firm basis that it can afford
10 give its opinion of this club or of
hat without fear or favor, which does
not praise small and unknown clubs
and give them notoriety because it
hopes to gain subscribers by so doing.
Outing" is certainly doing a valuable
work, and among the athletic portion
Of nation of 100000 Of people it
must have quite a circulation and quite
an influence.