Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-09
authority ON SPORTS
E. C. BROWN, NEW A. A. v. LEAD.
Err, PARTICULARLY FOND OF
ATHLETICS.
ONCE HELD TROPHIES
AS CHAMPION scuLLER

Sees Much In Future For Clean ane
Healthy Sport-Does Not Believe
That Present Football Rules Should
Be Radically changed-Enjoys Good
Boxing Match.
Everett C. Brown. the new president
of the Amateur Athletic union. is the
kind of u man who likes to see two
healthy boys wrestling in the school
yard. He likes good game of foot
ball and enjoys good boxing match.
In fact, there isn't a branch of ath-
letics that he does not approve of. He
pulled strong oar in his day and has
taken part in all sorts of aquatic
sports. No athletic club In the United
States has better divers and swim
mers or better water polo team than
the Chicago Athletic club, of which
Mr.. Brown Is president, and he takes
, unusual interest in this branch of the
sport
Mr.. Brown sees great things in store
/ for the United States athletically. al
! though our athletes lead the world
| now." said MI. Brown, I'VE will have
even greater athletes in the future. be-
cause no country in the world gives
the attention to the physical develop
ment of the youth as, we do in this
country. The school playground is a
great institution, and it is there that
our athletes are developed. In every
part of the country the schooboys are
getting more and more in touch with
out of door sports. and that's why
when they grow up they are able to
compete successfully against the
world. The United States is the only
country that is paying out millions in
amateur athletics.
Ever Ready to Better Conditions.
Amateur athletic affairs in this
country are in excellent condition, and
/ do not believe that any radical re-
form is necessary. But the Amateur
Athletic union is always ready to bet
ter amateur conditions, and If any
phase of the amateur sport needs ref
ornation the Amateur Athletic union
will be only too anxious to meet the
situation"
MIR. Brown is an ardent football en-.
thusiast, and, while admitting that the
game is rough and has dangerous fea.
lures, he does not believe that 1t ought
to be radically changed. He believes
!. that further changes in the rules could
be made that would lessen, the danger
Of mass play. but he is not in favor OF
abolishing tackllng or scrimmaging
the two exciting features of American
football, which. he says. make the
gridiron game such q thrilling sport.
Another branch Of sport of which
Mr.. Brown is especially fond is boxing
;. "There is no more reason for stoppini
professional boxing than there is pro
: fessional wrestling. or. for that mat
) ter, any other branch OF, sport" salt
Mr.. Brown. 1T is good, healthy. man
ly exercise and calls for courage an,
skill and could be regulated and main
: tanned at high standard among ath
: letic sports"
Active In Athletic Meets.
For five years Mr.. Brown has give
: up much of his time to the athleti
= teams Of the Chicago Athletic clul
He took teams to the st. Louis expos
ton, to competitions in the south an
:. east and had the Chicago A. A. att
;. letes at Seattle and other big atheti
carniyals on the coast. He was Wit
:, the American team at the Olympl
games last year and has had an activ
\ part in athletic affairs of every kind.
The new president was champio
sculler. In 1883 he won the junic
- sculling championship at Philadelphia
- representing the Farragut Boat clu
- Of Chicago He won the Mississippi
y championship under the auspices {
the Chicago Navy in 1899 and esta
lished record scull going over
course on Calumet lake. Chicago.
which there was one turn in 10 mi
utes 5 seconds. He competed in g
the big regattas as a member OF IL
y Farragut Boat club crews and W:
AZ also q member of the clubs other at
:. =. letic teams.
~ Mr.. Brown was born in Oneida, II
a and attended the Chicago gramm
~ and high schools. He attended 4
60 Chicago College of Law and the la
y department Of Lake Forest universit
81 receiving degree of bachelor of Ia
~ from the latter institution.
X Mr.. Brown first became identifi
nc with the Amateur Athletic union
Nc 1908, when he was sent as delegu
W from the Chicago Athletic associate
CO He is member of the Chicago Vac
~ club, the South Shore Country cl
10 and is general manager Of live sto
commission company.