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says he thinks that l. D. will be even bet
ter than the captain.
In fact, there are sprinters 20 burn. +.
Shoemaker and d. Lea, who were school
mates Of the younger whitman. have
clipped 1915 seconds. according 20 report
J. p. Throckmorton took a place In the
freshman hundred last fall. J. A. sedge-
WICK from the University Of Illinois, IL
another man with a record close to even
time In the short sprint, too.
For hurdlers Murphy mas Hartranft. ].
Newberry OF Wilkesbarre, II. s. Reagan
and d. sommer the latter a CVentral High
school boy. @. s. Parker comes from
George school, where he established a
record Of II feet inches in the pole vault.
Newberry defeated Mof7tt, the university
high jumper. in games at wilkes-Barre last
spring. He has a mark Of feet II inches
In the event l. johnson. a westerner.
also looks promising In the leap
NJ. Boyle from the woodward High
school Of Cincinnati. has won every indoor
half mile race in which he took part dur
ing the winter. and he has made a record
OF close 70 minutes for the distance.
Boyle also has tried in the mile Gum, a
brother OF the distance runner OF two
years ago at the university, comes from
Australia, where he has covered the half
mile and one mile in good time. Mcclure
who comes from the west, Is regarded as a
promising distance runner.
The Pennsylvania track team now IL en-
joying term Of prosperity very like that
Of about ten years ago when all that was
FIRST rate in track and field sport headed
for the Philadelphia institution. No mat
ter how trainers may come and go, the
boys want TO get Mike Murphy to pass
judgment on them still.
The much discussed point Of rules for
college athletes turning most often on the
statement that there are too many rcgu-
lations for the men who are taking part
In sports Is taken up In the Harvard Bull
! letin in comment on a statement by Prof
! II. S. White chairman Of the athletic cum
mittee. Prof. White lie discussing in the
statement the rule limiting participation
/ in intercollegiate athletics to two periods
Of sport in any one academic year.
! OF this regulation Prof. White says:
"The rule was passed in October, 1905
! The writer believes that he Is correct ir
assuming that the regulation simply In.
dictates the unwillingness OF the athletic
committee to countenanoe the contlnuou.
absenteeism involved in membership or
some university athletic teams during the
whole university year The rule applies
only to intercollegiate, not to interclass OF
intramural. contests and was not designed
TO prevent men from taking any amoun
of exercise desired OF even from lndulginI
in continuous training.
"The corresponding but somewhat NOR,
sweeping regulation at Princeton indicated
perhaps somewhat more clearly one phas
OF the question, namely, that the colleg
does not desire to encourage undue alb
senteeism. from work. The Princeton reg
ulation was: NO student shall belong &
more than two university organizations II
any one year which would require his alb
ssnce from town in term time
1.-The Harvard point OF view is Indicate
by President Eliot's remarks in his repor
for 1s02-19OS: The breaking UP OF colleg
work for the individual student by frequen
absences to play games at a distance fror
Cambridge is an evil which ought to b
! checked. II is a greater evil than formerly
now that intercollegiate games take plac
all the year round, that is, in winter as we
as in spring and autumn
ut is not, however, the business Of tn
athletic committee TO drive into the class
room or to devise methods to keep ther
at work; and It is hardly a valid criticism
of the regulation that a student is nc
thereby prevented in spending his leisure
some other way equally hindering him fror
, study or from embracing the many oppoi
tunities for other serious occupations.
, | might similarly be maintained that tn
restrictions of probation are useless bt
} cause they do not prevent a student froI
) spending his time In various other III
. checked diversions. That rule Lnplic
8 t, chiefly that the university is not TO |
I represented publicly by men who are M
z doing satisfactory work.
Q THE suggestion in the Crimson that me
o spend q good deal Of time on second team
8 and scrub teams and that the rule to !
e more effective should be extended TO GOV,
such cases has some weight in view
Q the growth of out CT town schedules Il
9 second teams. The whole question seen
a primarily a matter for the faculty to d
n eide. Perhaps a reference to the admin
I trative board for approval or disapprov
@ might be advisable. In the reorganizatiC
o OF athletics which is under way II shOu
s be seriously considered whether all matte
}, affecting scholarship should not, as
n Cornell and Yale, be relegated or restore
to faculty Jurisdiction"
d Then follows from Prof. White his vie
!, Of matter OF rules for athletics. He say
@ 1.-THE complaint is sometimes heard tn
n there are too many restrictions and reg
?, lations governing college athletics. TIL
j. may be true. What Is equally true is tn
% these regulations and restrictions have n
y been established to At a theory, but are Il