Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-03
ATHLETICS.
BY T. J. LYNCH.
President National League.
BY JAMES Il. SULLIVAN

Secretary Treasurer Amateur Athletic Union
1t is safe to predict that the season Of
1910 will, from an athletic point of view
be the most successful we have ever had
The constant building up Of athletics
through organized channels is steadily
on the increase, and the result is that
throughout the United States there will
be more competition under proper au-
spices and regulation than we have had
In the past.
The recognized governing bodies of
sport. such as the A. A. u, the Inter
collegiate A. A. A., the Conference Col
leges, the Y. NJ. C. A. and other organiza-
tons built on similar lines that have
been controlling sport, perhaps not in a
national way but in a sectional way. are
all In healthy condition, both athlet-
ically and financially. and there. is no
reason why the record of competing ath-
letics In all these groups should not be
greatly increased during the coming sea-
son, when one notes the activities that
are being arranged for
The A. A. u. of the United States has
already scheduled it's boxing, wrestling,
gymnastic and track and field cham
pionships for the season of 1910. For
the hrst time In the history Of the ANA
teur Athletic Union the championships
or the United States will be held in the
far south, New Orleans having been
designated as the place for the meeting
and the second Friday and Saturday in
October the days selected. The farthest
south the A. A. u. ever went with the
championships in the past was Washing
ton, d. c.
There has been created in the past sew
eral years an entirely new element in
athletics. catering principally to the
younger generation that is sure to show
the good effects of outdoor life. This new
element includes the public schools ath-
letic leagues, settlement leagues. church
4 lpapy1pS Sunday SchOn1
ticeably Fairgrounds. The playground
question is now assuming a national
shape, and the National Playground As
sociation, of which Dr. Luther HaIsev On
lick is president. has been doing some
missionary work which is now being
felt throughout the entire country. These
Fairgrounds. that is, the up-to-date ones
are now practically poor boys clubs
The majority of them are palatial: in
fact, some of the Fairgrounds through
out the United States have facilities for
athletic training that the old fellows
cannot get in the athletic clubs.
The perfectly equipped playground of
the future must have an athletic track
and an athletic field and as a result hun
fore enjoyed themselves playing on the
| roads and streets will frequent the play
grounds and become athletic, and in the
course of the next five or six years be
of boys in the United States receiving
the. right kind of athletic teaching in
their younger un';erss days It means that the
letic clubs will in time have an army
of perfectly developed young men to rep
| resent them in athletic competition
Last year was record year for the
and sanct1oning of games it doubled the
year of 1908, and from the applications
already received by the. different chair
throughout the country. and the report
] Of the different associations. it looks as