The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18
With The COLLEGE ATHLETES.
DOINGS ~ THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
Yale Gets Outdoor Board Running Track
Strength Of Swimming Georgetown
10 he At POughkeepsie AgaIn-COI-
Iege Men Pleased by Announcement.

fhe Gets Outdoor Board Running Track
Strength Of Swimming Georgetown
TO he At Poughkeepsie AgsIn-COI-
Iege Men Pleased by Announcement.
Yale, through the gift Of Charles H. Sher-
ril. a former track team captain, is to have
an outdoor board running track, which will
he put in the yard between the gymnasium
and the baseball cage. The track probably
will be small and on the model of the one
in Mechanics Hall, Boston, where the games
ofthe Boston A. A. are held. There is hardly
a college in New England that has not a
board track like this, and there are several
n the other sections of the country. The
New England colleges, such IA Amherst,
Dartmouth, Wesleyan and Williams, in
stalled these tracks to practise for the re-
lay races in Boston because their gymna-
sum running tracks are inadequate.
Cornell was the first to put Town a track
for serious general training purposes. Moak-
ley got the idea that even a board track
outdoors far surpassed any indoor running
that might be done, because out of doors
the athletes ave the benefit Of pure air.
At Pennsylvania there is a track that run
under the grand stand on one side and thus
isprotected against the weather.
The amount Of attention paid to athletics
In the colleges has been discussed at great
length recently in more thar one institu-
ton. DR.. Butler Of Columbia, for instance,
described football as an obsession when he
promulgated the order of abolition. Other
colleges have been found to be paying too
much attention to sport. too, although
the result has not been the same as at Column
bia. In view Of this the industry in per-
fecting athletic plants may seem surprising.
The University Of Pennsylvania has a
stadium now. There will be another
athletic field on almost az big n scale
pretty soon, and besides the building Of a
field house next door to the gymnasium
on Franklin Field is being pushed rapidly.
This house will be a sort Of living place
for all the athletes while their particular
sport is in season
Cornell is making a big athletic field
with the idea Of having a huge university
playground. The Syracuse stadium is
nearing completion. Columbia some day
will have a stadium, according to an an
nouncement made some time ago. Work
on it has lot been begun yet. SO that
despite much talk about the dangerous
influence OF too great interest in athletics,
the work of preparing to help out that
interest continues.
Swimming as a college sport is just begin
ming to come into its own, though there
have been swimming teams In some OF the
colleges for nearly eight years. Intercolle-
gate swimming started practically at Yale,
and following the lead OF the New Haven
institution Harvard and Columbia supported
the sport. After the men who started
swimming at Yale had left. the game suf-
Tered for a time and the quality of the teams
fell on. With the advent at Yale Of Ogden
Mills Reid swimming began to brace again.
Held was 20 heartily interested in swimming
that he could think and talk Of almost moth
ing else. IL had him in it's clutches as foot
oau holds Fielding Yost. Reid talked
swimming to everybody and by and by his
work baSan to get results.
The Yale swimming team has picked up a
ot In recent years IND this has been due
mostly to Reid. His own personal cam
paign in favor Of IL brought out a number
Omen to try for the teams. As a browning
sroke he has presented 10 the university
= swimming pool, which IL to supplement
inc present tank, which hasbeen thrown into
one sheet OF water. When finished the Yale
2nk will be larger than that OF any other
college.
Reid case is not a little like that Of Clin-
ton Abbott at Columbia Abbott was a
member Of the class OF 1903, and he, TOO,
entered college with a keen interest in
winning. For a long time his Efforts
'oset up interclsss swimming and a univer-
Wy water polo team met with only the
sishtest encouragement. Abbott stuck to
y however, and had his reward when the