Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-19

It 10 not unlikely that the Germans
might win over the Americans.
that England IL failing In Zine with q
suggestion made by the American Oiym-
Pic committee Immediately after the 1908
games to secure q uniform set OF rules
for the conduct Of these games and like
wise q uniform set Of events to be com
peted for. James e. Sullivan and his
, several committee members have al
ways made the point that the arbi-
trary method OF selecting events by
1rn,tsS and England was as unfair to the
any particular set OF events to this
country but they did insist that they
be uniform and fair to all the COM
peting countries. They are perfectly
willing to enter conference to de-
termine what set Of events would be
fair to all the countries interested.
and they object to any one country, as
England did in 1908, deciding what
shall be the list OF events. 1t is likely
that some effort will be made to har-
coming meeting Of the International
committee in Budapest.
The Swedish athletic authorities will
soon make public the list of events
which arc to be competed for In Stock
holm next summer. For q time 1t
particular effort to put on the pro-
gram only such events as were Of gen.
era1 interest to all the countries scom-
peting. Preliminary publication Of the
coming events, however. indicate that
Swedes propose to cater to as many Of
the sports as did England. Nearly
every branch Of shooting has been pro-
vided for. There will be competition
with every kind Of revolver, rife and
shotgun. The details have been ex-
tended to practically every other sport.
The Swedes have promised to make
public the entire list of events in a few
weeks Not until that is done will 1t
be possible to decide upon the ability Of
sweden to prepare an interesting pro-
gram for an International meet Of the
proportion Of the Olympic games.
Yale Basket Ball Troubles.
For the second time in its history bas-
ket ball is in danger Of being suspended
at Yale University. Two years ago the
Yale faculty ordered the game stopped
because OF its roughnesS. The team was
allowed to play in the meantime, but
not as q member OF the intercollegiate
meet. The Yale authorities thought that
this suspension Of the game would put it
on a more sentlemanly plane The team
was allowed to re-enter the league last
fall with the distinct understanding that
nothing but clean basket ball would be
tolerated. and that II there were any
more occurrences similar to that which
brought the game into disrepute several
years ago the game would be permanent
ly abandoned. The fact that all was not
well came in the game with Columbia
University at New York. In this game
there was a collision between q Yale and
Columbia player. in which a Columbia
man lost three Of his teeth besides suf-
fering some other disf1gurement. When
the account reached the Yale authorities
an investigation was started. and. as a
result, the offending Yale player was sus-
pended from the team.
Mr.. Anderson, the director of the Yale
gymnasium, in explaining the latest DIFF
ficulty. said that much Of 1t was due to
the rough handling which Yale players
have received from other teams. Ac-
cording to the Blue players themselves
there is q tendency on the part of their
minor college opponents to do anything
to beat Yale. According to their version
they have to be continually on their guard
to prevent this sort Of work. The Yale
first to start the trouble at Columbia, and
that there was no intentional roughness
on their part.
No doubt there Is a great deal Of truth
in the Yale contention that too many of
the other colleges are inclined to take
liberties with the Yale team. For some
reason or other Yale has greater athletic
prestige than any other university in the
east, and It is no doubt q great tempta-
ton to play the game to the limit in or
der to secure the advertisement which
would be theirs by victory over the
prestige would suffer moro by the charge
Of roughness than would the reputation Of
most Of her opponents. These facts no
doubt account for much Of the roughness
reported Of games between Yale and
other institutions. An investigation is