The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25

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which never should be ignored. This
l feel need not apply to college men in
athletic clubs, because here think there is
small room for any communicating influence
The smaller athletic club fourishes all the
more if it can get hold Of some athlete
who is home for the vacation and who feels
that he ought to be in at least partial train
Ing all summer. To have men like this
In athletic clubs Is strengthening the very
purpose Of the Amateur Athletic Union.
But the Wholesale grabbing OF collegans
and putting them In club with the mere
Idea Of winning point trophy at a cham
pionship meeting or something like that
Is very much the worst thing that can
happen to athletics. Luckily there are
few clubs wealthy enough to do this very
much, and as result their sphere OF in
fluence Ia small
The whole argument, then, maybe wound
up in few words. The Amateur Athletic
Union is eager, as 1t always has been, to
preserve a decent order and cleanliness
in sport. These also are the aims Of the
various intercollegiate bodies which govern
the various branches Of sport. The relation
at present between the A. A. U. and some
OF these is pleasant cooperation. With
the others we are gradually approaching
cordial relations, and as allied bodies l
feel that 1t will not be long before We are
totally united. 1t must be remembered
always that the A. A. U. has not the slightest
wish or idea Of interfering in the control Of
interuniversity sport. What the A. A. y.
wants to do, and will do, Is to control all
those who have athletic relations with
registered and unregistered non-collegiats
or athletic club organizations.
College men who have the interest OF
clean sport at heart are generally Of the
opinion that closer relations between the
A. A. u and the covering bodies Of the COL
leges is beneficial. When once it becomes
known that the A. A. u is ger not to ex
tend its jurisdiction beyond it's own proper
field it is thought that there will be re-
vusion of feeling in favor Of the A. A. U.
and that those who now are opposed to
the organization merely on general princi-
pies or on heresay evidence will be won
over to it.
prominent collegan recently said:
"Ihe A. A. U. has been unfortunate as re-
CARDS public statements of its policies
toward college athletics. Ungllarded and
hasty interviews with certain officials
of the A. A. U. have tended to put the 1850
citation before the public in the light OF
domneerng organization which intended
to rule everything in sport. We, who have
followed the matter further than the sur
face presentment realize the good inten-
tons of the A. A. u, and at the same time
discount the rash, hurried statements
made oftentmes by those in authority.
| 1t would seem, as to the purposes and plans
Of the A. A. y. The fact that public school
athletics in the big cities has passed under
the A. A. L. control indicates future power
for the body which will be enormous. 1t
means that the body will grow to be eight
to ten times its former size and that col
leges will be able to have with each entering
student athlete who comes from public
high school clean bill OF hea lth from his
earliest competing age to the time that he
lea yes school to enter college. 1t will be an
inestimable advantage. At the same time.
it will give the lads the conception OF
the true meaning of the rules OF COM
petition while they are in the age most re-
ceptive Of all impressions. II they are
started on the lines of fair and sportsmanlike
athletic activity, as they will be, at that
early age there will be 30 much the less
tendency toward muckerism and profess
sionalsm. All told, the collegian must ad-
mire the activity of the A. A. u, and in due
course of time will be moved from inert
wonder to active participation and aid in
the great movement for tho purifying OF
sport. Recent disclosures, extending over
many years. have shown that sport in the
colleges can stand renovating'
The attraction OF professional sport for
men still in college is shown pretty we'll by
three or four recent cases OF men who have
left the universities to take up professional
lall playing. or course the case OF Walter
Clarkson of Harvard, later Of the New York
Americans and now Of the Jersey City
team. is tie most prominent. Tom Bird.
the captain of the University Of Michigan
nine, left his team at the early part OF this
season to go to Buffalo to become catcher
on the Eastern League team of that city.
and the most recent affair OF the kind Is
the detection Of Lennis Burrell. third lase
OF Syracuse Burrell who will he re-
memhered as the man who scored all the
points that Syracuse made against Yale at
football last year, is Il good infelder. He
amounted to the destinations OF the Fast
ern League and now Is member OF the
Rochester team. Patrick Duff formerly
| of Manhattan College, used to play for the
/ Hobokens and the Rdgewoods while he
was in college, and after his graduation
was signed by the New York Americans.
Now he is playing with Minneapolis.
McPhillips of Manhattan is playing with
Southern League team. Lewis OF Cor
nell, who recently jumped the Brooklyns.
also left college to play ball
The latest of the track team captains
to be elected by the college athletes this
season is d. c. Munson, 90, for two
years the intercollegiate champion one
miller. Munson is not only one OF the most
prominent OF the college athletes. but 10
also an editor of the Cornell Daily Sun.
the undergraduate Newspaper. Munson
as a member Of the New York Athletic Club,
won the national championship for one
mile last year at st. Louis and afterward
finished second in the five mile run. This
last is quite an achievement, inasmuch as
Munson went into the race with no other
preparation for extra long distance work
than could lie got from running half miles
and miles.
The various captains elected by the COL
| lepe track teams thus far are:
| royIsoe Name Speciality.