The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-27

jump. His foot went half way acros
the stop board. but he took a leap q
that and went about 20 feet 8 inches.
The next time he went back Quinn
paced of the distance and told Foste
when he got to the end Of a certain mum
Der OF strides, as soon as he hit his lef
foot, to Jump. no matter where he wa
about q foot and a half behind the board
and this time he jumped about 81 feet
inches altogether. He did not rise tn
least bit. his Jump being entirely on hi
impetus Of his speed.
Quinn believes that II Foster can learr
to get a lift. as he has spring natural,
anyway. he can develop into q very fine
speed that Foster has certainly has every
chance with the least bit Of rise TO &
well around 20 feet. It Is Quinn's Idea
u the track coach, Poooh Donovan, vii
let him work 1t out. to have Foster TAKE
a couple OF jumps on the Friday before
the intercollegiate finals and to let hi
Jumps stand for the next day. He be.
lieves that Foster can qualify without
much trouble and that probably hit
warming up jumps will be good enough tc
earn him a point or 30.
THE PRINCETON CHEER.
Here is a little bit in light vein. The
Daily Prfncetonidn says Just a word
concerning cheering. The habit has
arisen OF %accenting the final syllable
OF Princeton 80 that all that is intelhgible
to q at a distance is Stun. stun, stun.
This, by the way, has q very unpleasant
similarity In sound to stung. therefore
more car should be exercised to give
q greater accent to the first syllable.
so that the whole word Princeton may
be heard"
CHOOSING HARVARD MANAGERS.
The subject % selecting managers
for athletic teams Is at present troubling
the minds OF some OF the Harvard stu
dents, who contend that the present
method is unsatisfactory and should
be changed. The matter Of getting a
mar who combines executive ability.
willingness and good spirit in doing his
work and the faculty OF getting on with
members Of the team mas nothing In
common with the competitions conducted
to select managers, according to the
Harvard Crimson. The affair Is thus
characterized:
'1n practically all managership COM
petitions. those for university football
and baseball alone excepted. the main
work Is the collection OF money. At
the start OF the competition the under
standing Is that the man who collects
the most money will get the job pro-
vided he is personally acceptable. This
I iDB COilulttOu HdS lcu 70 TIhily
sharp contests and much i'll feeling.
This must necessarily continue so long
as the present system Is adhered to.
What Is the use OF having a competition
IL the best competitor does not win out?
The money itself is hardly q consideration.
since there are other and less obnoxious
wavs OF raising that.
TT sole ~act,iating cause seems to be
the idea that there must be a competition
Of some sort while there is not enough other
work to be done To try out the capacity
OF contestants. obliRing the manager
conducting the competition to make the
final report to the H men Of the sport OF
even to tho student council, stating his
decision. and reasops. although II un-
graft, cannot cure an evil in itself incura-
bic. We should strike at the root. What
offers a most effective remedy seems to
leave the whole matter to the student
comn Ill"
The suggestion made by the Harvard
paper is that competition should be
abolished. A better scheme. it Is re-
receive the names OF applicants for the
managership and after investigation re-
port to the student council their 'qualih-
cations. After he n made an investiga-
ton Of their qualities Of executive ability,
willingness to work and OF personality
and has made his report to the stndent
council that body could then decide on
1t is suggested. has been found to work in
other colleges and should at Harvard.
1T would leave no room for personal
g~rievances.' says the Crimson. since 1t
would do away with competitions, the
facts OF which always leak out. The
student council would not be hampered
by the necessity OF balancing the results
OF a competition which at best Is nc real
test Of executive ability against the per-
sonal equation. The council would
be reasonable and fair in its Judgments.
The candidates would not have the cha
grin of doing invidious begging to no avail.
Finally. the friends Of contestants would
In the glorious victory or dire defeat
THE SYSTEM ELsEwHEBR.
In some colleges thereisa very elaborate
system OF choosing managers for teams.
A man who desires TO become a manager
begins in his freshman year and Is made
an officer of some sort OF the association
with which he allies himself. In his
sophomore year he becomes a second as
sistant manager and in his junior year is
first assistant manager. Generally by
the time he is a senior and becomes nan
ager he has shown definitely whether he
is capable of holding the position or not.
In fact. the men in charge OF the sport are
apt to find out by the time he is through
his freshman year whether he is worth
while having.
The whole trouble in the matter lies at
the very start in selecting a man. Many
men get places in certain colleges because
OF fraternity influence or because Of the
friendship Of some man in the association
for them, but even the most protected
and petted candidate for q job can hardly
succeed in holding 1t il he proves himself
to be inefficient. The graduates in charge
OF the sport will hardly permit a man to
continue in the holding OF o job when 1t is
shown clearly that he is hurting the
chances of the sport to achieve q success
full season on the financial side. A bad
manager can work havoc with the finances
OF any a and sometimes can put that
team in such bad shape that 1t will take a
1t Is certainly necessary to use great
care in selecting the man Tor q manager
ship, and how II can be done is a hard
problem. When a man first enters COL
lege he does not always give the indica-
tions OF ability which hemay later develop.
and undergraduates, although thay have
a fair judgment Of their fellow students,
are by no means infallible, They may BY
chance turn down the very best man and
pick q man whose superficial brilliancy
Is such that he deludes them into the
belief that he is a good man for the place.
They have to take those chances because
there Is no hard and fast rule by which
the merits OF q nan may DO determined
in college any more than there is In after
life. as far as the very first glance is BON
cerped.
The bad feature 10 that II a man il al