Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-04

each while Harvard mas score OF one
and a half. II the championship in each
sport is counted as one point the score
is as follows:
Different Leaders.
Basket ball. Columbia
Guess Pennsylvania Princeton
ross Country cIi
Golf Yale
Fencing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. West Point
Tennis Pennsyi1ania. Harvard
wrestling -.--..--.-.---- 1die
swimming .--..---...--.-..--- .fenhS!iFahia
Without doubt. Columbia winning of
the basket ball championship was the
most notable victory of the indoor season.
Columbia went through the season with
the loss of only single game. that the
final one of the year with Pennsylvania
1t is true that there was no intercollegiate
schedule, but in spite of this the New
Workers made the best showing of the
season and deserved the title. There was
considerable disappointment felt over the
fact that Columbia and Chicago. the lat
ter the western champions, did not meet
in a post-season series for the national
championship. a title which Chicago won
from Pennsylvania the year previous.
Columbia second championship was
won In gymnastics. This was the first
time that Columbia had won the cham
pionship in this sport in four years. In
past years little importance has been at
tached by the college world to the gym
nastic title. but the sport has been
strengthening it's hold and bids fair to
rival some of the other minor sports.
Pennsylvania won its points in three
sports-chess. swimming and tennis. Were
it not for the fact that there are two
chess tournaments which makes it neces-
sary for each to be counted as half a
point. Pennsylvania would be entitled to
first nonors for. judging from the work
of the Quaker chessmen in the interna-
tional cable tournament and on other
occasions. they are entitled to the pre-
mier position in the college chess world.
Quakers Good Swimmers.
The Quakers made almost a clean
sweep of the swimming championships.
II is interesting to note in this connec-
ton that Pennsylvania men attribute
much of their prowess in this sport to the
fact that swimming is compulsory at
Pennsylvania No man at the Quaker in
stitution Is allowed to take mis- academic
degree until he has received a certificate
of proficiency in swimming. In this man.
ner Coach kistler gets a chance to see
the entire college body in the water. and
as a result secures some exceptionally
good swimmers. 1t is peculiar of swim
ming that when 1t has been mastered
even for compulsory reasons the student
usually keeps it up either as recreation
or to become proficient in 1t. Besides
swimming and chess Pennsylvania divided
honors with Harvard in tennis. the cham
pionship in which was held last fall.
Harvard won the championship in
hockey after a strenuous campaign. The
final battle was once more between Har-
ward and Dartmouth. These two northern
institutions seem TO enjoy a monopoly in
this winter sport. 1t thrives only with
difficulty in the universities farther south.
For the fifth year in succession Yale
carried off the wrestling championships.
Not since the intercollegiate association
In this sport was formed has any other
college won the title. Yale also made a
IF n "a
was held last fall.
OF the other minor sports Cornell was
supreme in cross country running. For
the ninth time the Ithacans won the
championship in this sport. In fact. only
once has Cornell failed 10 win this event.
That was in 1901. when Yale and Penn
sylvania both finished ahead OF the Itha-
cans.
West Point proved to be quite as prof.
cient In fencing as Cornell in cross coun-
try running. 1t Is seldom that the mill
tary cadets have been beaten with the
foils.
follows: Ya.e. .: Pennsylvania. >. Column
bia. .; Harvard. III: Cornell. !; West
Point. l: Princeton. ".
Legislating Against Kicking Game.
VIII the drop or place kick ever be
IegisIated out of existence? This is a
fair question in view of the action of the
rules committee in deciding that field
goal hereafter shall count only three
points. Thus we have seen the field
goal reduced TO five. four and three points
il successive stages.
Ten wears ago a field goal. whether
drop or from placement, counted hve
points Then. because some of the small
er colleges developed kicker or two
who scored on the big ones. the rule max
ers got revenge on the kicking institutions
by reducing the value of the field goal to
four points. That kept down scores by
kicking for a few years Last fall this
manner of scoring became so frequent
and annoying that the gridiron legislators
thought IL time to turn their attention
once more to this method of scoring and
cut the value of goal so made TO three
points.
IL is serious question in the minds of
a good many persons not on the rules
committee whether this is wise lel,isla
then it may he assumed that the
drop and place kick will be left unframed
just so long 1t is not used with too
much frequency. In other words. the
committee has put premium ON not
using the kicking game.
\ few years ago great hue and cry
was raised for IA more open game. Even
the rule makers succumbed TO the de-
mand and introduced the forward pass
and other novelties to open up the game
and make IL more interesting to the
spectators Now they have reversed
themselves on this point by preventing
tue lurtilSF opening VI the game through
the kicking department. If there is an
increase in proficiency in kicking goals
from field the chances are that such
goals then count for two points. then
one with the prospect that SOME day this
manner OF scoring will become SO an
noying that ii will be made illegal
Any one who is familiar with the kick
ing game In the eastern colleges knows
that one of the complaints made agains;
modern coaching is the lack of attention
paid TO drop and place kicking. Kicking
can he made a most exact science and
deserves just as fair treatment at the
hands of the rule makers as any other
method Of scoring.
The changes In the rules governing the
forward pass are OF slight Importance
but they tighten the burden of the of
ficiais by the creation of the dead zone
IL Is evident by their lack of action on
the point that the general public viii
shave TO find some other method to make
itself heard il it expects the commit lee
to provide for the numbering of pla yers
Certainly tine confusion on this point Ii
enough to warrant some action on tho