Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-05
DEVELOPMENT Of
AMATEUR SPORT
PrOphesied That Zenith of Pop.
ularity Will Not BE Reach
ed for 20 Years.


If this idea proves correct 1t would appear
hat when 1893 is reached the ioker's
lxom, "lf business intereeres with sport
Put out business" will CT necessity have
- be enforced
Every year finds the nchedules OF sport
Increasing in number and Importance
limo was when an international meet
IF any type was a nine-day wonder In The
world Of sport. To-day such competitions
)ctract little attention beyond the circle
" devotees of a particular pastme, ex-
ecpting always contests of the type o.
polo and ya9h; cup matches Teams rep
Sesenting vaIious countries are constant
~ travelling thousands OF miles to test
pkill and endurance Will those of other
bations. In the United States, college,
echool and athletic club combinations
sross the continent so frequently that
euch trips no longer arouse more than
passing interest.
The increasing circumference OF sports
domain ls proved however. by these in
sasions OF foreign territory, either ma
Gonal or international, and I'm this re-
)pect the present year, although but a
third completed, already has wrested the
record from the past For months the
meets and dates have been piing up
until almost every form Of athletic com
petition is represented in the list to date.
LEADING FEATURES OF 1918.
Although the international tennis and
polo play is at this time the uppermost
in the mind of the average American
sportsman, there are a score or more of
events Of somewhat similar type which
are not attracting attention beyond the
6
lack of widespread publicity attests the
length and breadth Of the present stua-
hon in sport. AS an illustration of the
bctlvity planned or in operation at this
writing it is only necessary to mention
few of the leading features carded for
1913
Several American golfers have just
completed play in the English amateur
championship, and British players are
expected to return the compliment by
competing in the United States title
events in September. The Australian
cricket team is en- route to this country
for a series of matches both in the states
and Canada. The baseball team of the
Chinese college of Hawaii is at present
giving battle to our various university
teams. Sailors of the Sender boat type
are looking forward to the races to be
sailed between three American and three
German racing craft of this type off Mar.
blehead, Mass, early in September
Members of the American Canoe associ-
Rtion are elated at the prospect of great
sport in the races to be sailed for the
New York Canoe club international chal
}enge cup between the tiny craft of the
Gananoque c. NJ. h. G. OF Canada anC
trophy defender yet to be selected.
The United States National Rife asso
citation has completed arrangements 70
what will, in all probability, he the great
est international rife and pistol tour
nament ever held. Teams have already
been entered by Switzerland, Mexico
Chile Sweden, Cuba Canada, France
Italy and the various states Of the union
for the matches TO be held al Camp Perry
Ohio, August Is to 80 The Amateur
Athletic union will send an athletic team
10 Australia in December and the Giants
and White SOX plan to tour the world
playing exhibition games between the
1918 and 1914 baseball seasons, The Mary
land Agricultural College football team
will invade Cuba during Christmas weel
for three games with Cuban college ant
amateur teams.
In the national field. the University OF
California has sent ten of her best
athletes East To compete in the inter
collegiate games at Cambridge and the
western conference meet week later
The week of athletic carnival at Chi
raeo this summer will attract teams
from all parts of the country and pos
tibly from abroad. The University OF
Washington entered its elght-oared var.
s;ty crew from Seattle to compete in the
Intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie
What the next few months xiii deYeiol
In the way of further competition not
even Il prophet wculG caro- 20 predict
At this y-sTtod of the year when ccneg,
SPORT is at the height of IT'S sw1ng III,
varsity colors play 40 SINAI! part in th'
various meets. ALMOST avery Tn! lcrsit!
combination OF coiors has come interest
ing history attached 20 It's adoption anC
In this reope0t tho Red and Blue o
Pennsylvania ~ Tot the least AcSnrd'ni
to the university recorder. q. e. Nitz
sche. red and blue came to be adopte,
us Pennsylvania coiors in the following
manner:
In the summer Of 1875 a track mes
was held by the citizens oc Saratoga il
connection with the annual boat races
Pennsylvania had, up until this time
never entered intercollegiate track com
| petition, but that year sent lone rep
resentative, II. L. Geyelin, II, tn
| present president OF the Pennsylvania
Athletic association.
Numbers were not attached 20 the com
petitors at that time, but instead the attn
letes ran under different colors Geyelil
was asked what colors he was running
under, and when he said that he had n
colors he was told that he would hav
to select some. 1t happened that he wa
wearing a red and blue striped cap at tn
time. and so he selected those colors Thi
was the first time Red and Blue wa
worn I'm public as colors of the universit
IN an intercollegiate contest.
In an endeavor to improve the genera
standard OF English field athletics befor
the next Olympic games, the Field Event
association has evolved the plan O
awarding medals to all British athlete
who equal or exceed certain set stand
ards during the season of 1913. The med
ais can be won at any time and at an
meet, thereby different from the standar
medals given by the Amateur Atheti
association, which are only granted
competitors in a championship meet Fo
the first year the standards have bee
made moderate comparing favorably wit
American intcrscholastic marks and bein
as follows:
Pupninp hroad hmm II fact. hon STE