The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-12
Chicago Physician Reduces
Value Of Sport to Player and
Spectator to Fractions.
WOULD SAVE LIFE TO
PLAY WITHOUT. PLAYERS
As Interest Increases Game De-
generates Into Sport, Spec
tacle and Gambling Device.
By MANHATTAN.

By Leased Wire TO The Tribune
NEW YORK. Feb. LII object to
football said Dr. F.. E Slosson Of
Chicago. ''not because il gives pain to
players, but because it gives pleasure
to the spectators Let students play
football as much as they like and stop
when they get tired, according to any
rules or none. TT there is nobody
watching them they will not injure
themselves much and others not at all.
The evil of the prizefight lies not III
he fight. but in the prize.
The real value of an athletic con
test may be represented by frac-
! tion whose enumerator is the number
of players and whose denomnator is
the number of watchers. present or alb
sent As the latter number increases
the game degenerates into sport, the
sport into spectacle, and the spectacle
INTO gambling device. For every man
who takes part in an athletic contest
personally there are q hundred who
take part by proxy and thousand in
absentia.
.'To the Multitude watching the
game the numbers appearing on the
bulletin board, the ticker or IN the pa
roulette wheel. This, in fact, may be
expected as the next step in the evo-
luton of the game As the fox hunt
ers have dispensed with the fox, and
the produce exchange with produce,
and the policy shops with the lottery
wheel, the football of the future may
be conducted without players, This
will save some thirty lives 4 year and
a great deal Of misspent energy, and
will afford just as good an opportunity
for the display of college loyalty
through the stalking Of desires or cur
rency.'
No Lafayette Princeton Game.
Lafayette college team viii not play
football game with Princeton next
fall. This information was corrobo
rated finally a few days ago. when
Manager j. D. Lindsay of Lafayette
received a letter from Manager B. D.
McClave Of Princeton TO the effect
that the Tigers would be unable to
arrange the game. It is probable that
Princeton now intends TO take on both
Harvard and Dartmouth. which gives
old Nassau enough hard games.
At the dinner given by Colonel
Robert NJ. Thompson, president Of the
New York Athletic club, several, an
ing that he has leaning towards
lathletics. track and field. notwithstsnd.
llng he is fond of all sports. He said
that, in order to retain its athletic SUI
premacy. il was necessary for the club
from time to time to replenish its team,
and there was no better body TO draw
from than the Public School Athletic
League. He suggested that champion
ship meeting of the high schoos of this
citv be held next June under the aus
pices aud mana cement of the club Of
feriug prizes for this meet
Columbia Abolishes Lacrosse.
Lacrosse at Columbia is dead The
Athletic association has abolished the
game on account of lack of interest.
It is believed the game was apol-
lished because the association expects to
be hard up before the year IS over.
The general student body feels that
Instead of sinking money on crew
that seldom wins. and never races at
home. little could be spared for
sport that has many victories to Its
credit
James E. Sullivan. chsirman advisory
committee of the Pastime A. G.. recent
Fisher of the Y. M. C. A. and he Sc
cured the one-mile Y. NJ. c. A. relay
championship for the Pastlme games at
Madison Square Garden March IA. This
event will bring together all the crack
/ Y. M. c. A. teams. The men now COM
peting on the Y. NJ. G. A, teams are
f.ster than any before. and a new rec
ord for the organization g mile relay
Will probably be hung no. With the
Iintercitv.int erborough mile relay; Y.
| NJ. C. A. relay championship; three
standing broad jumps, scratch ana ten
mile run, the Pastime club Viii have
four feature events that outclsss any
thing else offered the athletic fans this
winter, and the meet promises to be
| the leading one of the indoor season.
John I Taylor. president of the Bos-
ton club, saws it is not true that his
pitchers have signed under percent
age agreement Only two men hsve
been signed under bonus system and
they under n bonus for keeping in good
condition. In regard TO cutting cal
ares, President Tavlor saws he has not
done so except in three cases. and that
TO those men he give an opportunity to
make il up by percentage
Red sox Forces Marshaled
Among The hall PLAYERS who have
been corraled and signed by the Red
Sox club are Frank Smith, BENJAMIN F.
Hunt, Charles Hall, Martin McHale,
Walter F. Moser. Thomas j. o 'Brien,
IC. i. Maboney. Joseph Wood. Edward
V Cicotte, Jean Dale, George T. Pierce.
Thomas F. Madden, l., G. Nunamaker,
Charles D. Thomas. Fl. F, Bradley, Will
liam Pnrtell. Charles Wagner, II, G..
Janvrin.
The University of Michigan may be
represented on track OF field By ono ar
more Chinese, There are fourteen &c.
lestials in the university. Also there
are fourteen in the gymnasium taking
athletic training.