Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-06
TO FOSTER BOXING.
May Get Recognition in Inter-
collegiate Association.
ODD FOOT BALL RELATIONS
1916 0lympiad May Come to This
Country-Penn Relay
Carnival.

| OVuuGA y-xCuU 0C1dy
Carnival.
BY Edward B. Bushnell.
The latest sport which college men pro-
| pose to dignity by an intercollegiate as
| ISOLATION is boxing The University o.
| PENNSYLVANIA is the protector Of the
movement. The Quakers this week sent
| out invitations to Harvard. Yale, Cor
| nell, Columbia and Princeton asking for
| conference to organize the association
and put the sport on the same foundation
| as wrestling. 1t is their aim to effect a
! permanent organization and to hold an
| intercollegiate championship tournament
each year.
| 1t is pretty hard to predict what sue
cess this movement for the organization
of college boxing will have. Boxing has
been promoted for a number of years at
all the universities mentioned, but 1t mas
been confined heretofore to the gymnastic
curriculum. There has been feeling
that on account of the. disrepute into
which professional boxing has fallen IL
would be poor policy for the big uhlvef-
stiles to foster 1t by an intercoilegiate
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to admit it's worth as q sport anu ai
exercise.
The college men contend that they had
to overcome a similar prejudice when the
intercollegiate Wrestling Association was
formed. That was accomplished some
five years ago, and its success mas oeeh
permanent from the start. Boxing, now
ever does not lend itself 70 these IDEAS
in promotion. 4 great many persons oD-
Ject to the sport because Of the hard feel
ing il is likely to engender between the
contestants. Some of these fearsome crit
les have advanced the suggestion mat
the representatives Of the different col
leges might make use or TINS oppo!1u.
nity to settle some Of their intercollegiate
differences. What sight 1t would De IL
half dozen representatives or two UNI,
versities were to engage IN "a oattte Tosai,
If the boxing league Is eventually formed
it will undoubtedly have some tough
shedding.
The American Regatta.
The American Rowing Association has
announced imposing plans for it's 1911
regatta, which is to be held on the
Schuylkill river, Philadelphia, May p.
In particular it proposes to feature the
college races. The university entries are
sure to be most important this year. All
ready Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania and
Cornell and Columbia have given definite
assurances that they Will have crews In
some of the races. There is likewise good
reason to believe that Princeton. II she
engages in intercollegiate rowing at all
this year. will send crew to TINS re-
gatta DR.. Spaetf, the coach, favors the
plan. and w. W. Roper, the Princeton
graduate director, is q member or the
board Of stewards which manages the
regatta.
The stewards would like to make some
arrangement whereby Cornell could be
counted on to send a crew each year
The difficulty at Cornell IS that in alter
nate years the Ithacans promote re-
gatta Of their own on Lake Cayuga. and
the crews cannot get permission to at
tend the Philadelphia regatta except III
alternate years.
The presence of the Columbia crews
last wear was q source of much satiSfac-
ton to the stewards. 1t was the opening
wedge, and the New Workers. are l-Aely
to be annual visitors hereafter
Cornell's New Alliance.
There is something odd about Cor
nells new alliance with Michigan in
foot ball and the break, though possibly
only Of a temporary nature, with Har
ward. After having played two games
with Harvard it is announced from
Ithaca that Cornell declined to sched-
ule the game with the Crimson, and
i'm its place has taken on Michigan, the
latter game to be played November IL
at Ithaca. In explanation the Cornell
authorities have stated that the Har
ward game bad to be discontinued be-
cause the Cornell faculty refused to
permit the team to play three games
away from home. as would have to be
done had Harvard been played. The
Crimson would not have played Cor
nell anywhere but in Cambridge. and
Cornell already was under contract to
play Chicago in Chicago and Pennsyl-
vania in Philadelphia. OF course. the
tant to Cornell than the Chicago con-
test. but 1t would have been almost
physically impossible for the Cornell
team to have played in Chicago. Cam
bridge and Philadelphia almost on sue
ceSsiye Saturdays
The only way by which Cornell might
have kept the Harvard game was by
the cancellation OF the Chicago game
or getting consent of Chicago to play
in Ithaca. But Chicago has already
played twice in succession at ithaca to
favor Cornell. and naturally the Itha-
cans could not ask them to do this
again9 Some Cornell men would nave
liked to extricate themselves by having
Pennsylvania play in Ithaca. put the
Pennsylvania game is the life-saver
financially of both teams. and could not
have been scheduled elsewhere than on
Franklin Field without serious imam
ciaI consequences Tor Dotn lnstitutloHS.
It was for these reasons that Cornell
arranged q game with Michigan. With
the announcement OF this game comes the
information that Princeton and cornell
will not meet this year, as had been r'l-
n,ored But even without this game Cor
nell will have a very evenly balanced
schedule, and If better games are Sc
cured for the first half of the season Cor
nell will avoid some Of the mistakes she
made last year. when she scheduled so
many weak teams at the beginning OF
tho wear and then topped off with three
hard games against Chicago. Harvard and
PENNSYLVANIA.
To all intents and purposes the Uni
yersity of Michigan has now become an
eastern institution Only in geOgraph-
west Michigan's three important games
are with Cornell, Syracuse and Pennsyl-
yania. all eastern institutions. The Min
nesota game has been dropped from the
schedule after the Gophers were twice de-
feated because Of the new conference
r,,Ie which forbids members of that or
panizatjon to meet eastern teams. rms
10 about as foolish rule as the CONFER
ence has made and it's members Will SUI
fer in consequence.
Olympic Games for Cleveland.
lovers of athletics will welcome the
movement started in the United States
Congress to get the 1919 Olympiad for this
country. The American authorities have
practically promised the games to Cleve-
land. provided they are awarded to this
country and the Ohio men have invoked
the aid Of this government to get them
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