New-York tribune., 1910-12-11
HIGH COST OF SPORTS
Columbia Budget Runs Into Big
Figures for Season.
NEED OF VARSITY TEAMS
Two Ways to Get One-lmport
or Manufa acture-and Rea-
sons for Same.

II will cost between $4,000 and S25,ooo TO
run the athletic teams at Columbia during
the coming year. according to the preHm-
mary budget which has been drawn up pF
the University Athletic Association Al
lowing only s6 900 for the crew ana sZ"s
for the track team, the budget reaches the
sum of sl3.e50, and it is probable that an
unexpected situation will arise which Will
make it possible to add another sl,Ge TO
these figures. The crew will need about
$4,000 altogether. although most OF this
viii be obtained by personal subscriptions
to the rowing club.
To date the receipts of the association
have been s6Se3 So. OF which 1890 has boen
received from students, $500 from officers
and H,7s0 from alumni. This leaves more
than s14.9o0 to be collected, and in order TO
facilitate the work. the graduate manager,
James Myers. 'e4, has appointed n. o.
lockwood. 10. cexswain Of the varsity
crew several seasons ago, as a special
alumni collector whose duty 1t is to make
daily excursions among the alumni down.
town His collections, however, have not
been proportionate with the number OF
trips he has t>d to make and the number
of alumni he has visited.
The question as to whether Columbia
should or should not hold an indoor relay
carnival in Madison Square Garden this
winter as has been the custom In the last
ten years, has stirred up no end of Discus
sion on M0rningside Heights. and it is
likely 10 lead TO thorough Investigation
into Columbia athletics The lead has been
taken by Gustavus T Kirby one of the
graduate track directors, who. In an article
in The Alumni News" published yestar-
day, takes up the general urgpgsftion as
to whether Columbia should any longer try
to remain an institution where iutercoI
legiate athletics are a part of the pro-
gramme for the students after class hours
Mr.. Kirby says in part:
Ihere are two ways 80 have good team
import one or manufacture aun C',I,In1tia
mas neither the desire nor tf1a arInnrt1InItv
10 import team and. therefore, il rnI,st
Lave manufactured Gne. But To n1guu-
idcluTe a team you must have proper ma
I teI idl ana reasonable opportunity to de-
Velop Such material BY prgper material T
mean boys to train who physically are of
tle size strength and stamina to eoupete
against the teams of other universities tike
Harvard. Yale, Pennsylvania Princetor
Corhell and Dartmouth. Ny belief is that
the average age, height and weight of the
men in the Columbia acadernicsI 4enzrT
men! are less than at most other large uni
Proper material can BE found, however. in
the law school, medical school and engi-
neerfng schools, but the question is whether
this material is available Under existing
condltlohs IL is not and for the reason that
the hours Of lectures. laboratory and study
are so long as to make the prospect of
Trying Tor team too uninviting to other
tnan the tra-enthuSiastic athlete who has
been IN no other institution and thinks and
dreams only Of the honor and glory of Co.
iumbia.
| at one time felt that athletics were nee
esSary for the success eff any educational
lnsutu1on: but l now thoroughly believe
tnat II Columbia never had a varsity team
IN any sport 1t would still continue as
a foremost educational institution The
question is not, therefore, one primarily
having to do with education and the suc-
DO with the question of why the sons OF
trustees and Well-knOwn alumni of their
choice and with or without their parents
approval go to institutions other than CO.
lumbia. These boys have taken in in
tuitively, the learning, the culture and the
polish of their environment, and while they
desire learning they also want to go and
do go TO a college that encourages athletics,
and from that it follows that athletics are
FUNDAMENTAL and not merely competitive
in their character
There should be constant faculty encour-
agement of athletic participation, a student
should be helped in his studies with this
end in view and helped lust as mich as If
it were for the purpose of enabling him
to find more time off during which he
could earn living. What every univer-
sity needs is a man who will bring help
and encouragement to the students, who
wilt encourage their participation in var
sity sports, who will try to find way for
them to do so-a man whose policy will
be not You may not do this but Let US
find a way 10 do this
Columbia has in view an ambitious sea-
son for its crews next spring, and if the
programme is carried out it is probable
that it will be one of the most varied that
has ever been tried. 1t has developed that
in addition to the race already scheduled
with Annapolis fer May Is. on the Severn,
contests are also hoped for with both Yale
and Harvard. The Harvard race has been
talked of for some time, and although moth
ing definite has been arranged it is conf
dently expected that the crews will meet
On the Charles River Basin on the date
corresponding to the one on which the
Crimson went to Annapolis a year ago.
This would bring it in the Easter vacation,
about the middle of April.
To fit in between this time and Memorial
Day, when the crews will take part in the
Harlem River regatta, race is in view
with Yale, but nothing has been arranged
one way or the other
The freshman eight will row the Yale
freshmen and Will also enter the American
Henley races at Philadelphia on May =.
The second varsity eight also will be sent
TO Philadelphia. For the first time since
there has been rowing at Columbia an ef-
fort will be made to arrange a race for the
+hird varsity crew-if there IS one-and al
ready plans are being laid to pit it against
one of the Princeton class crews.