The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-02

the Union for the matches to be held
a. a.. Camp Perry. Ohio, August is to 40.
me Amateur Athletic Union will send
an athletic team to Australia in De
ceihoer' and the Giants and White Sox
pan TO tour the world, PLAYING exhihi.
ton games between the 1918 and 1o14
Daseball seasons. The, Maryland A9ri.
cultural College football team will In
wade Cuba during Christmas week for
three games with Cuban college and
amateur teams
In the national field the IJniversitv
OF california has sent ten OF her best
alnietes East to compete in the inter-
collegiate games at Cambridge and the
western Conference meet a week later.
The week of athletic carnival at Chi
cago this summer will attract teams
from all parts OF the country and pos
siDly from abroad The University Of
Washington entered it's eight-oared
varsity crew from Seattle to compete
In the intercollegiate regatta at Pough-
keepsie What the next few months
will develop in the way of further COM
petition not even prophet would caro-
to predict
At this period Of the year. when COLI
iege. sport is at the height OF its
swing. the varsity colors play no small
part In the various meets. Almost
every university combination of colors
has some interesting history attached
to It's adoption, and In this respect the
Red and Blue of Pennsylvania is not
the least According to the University
Recorder, C. Il. Nitzsche. red and blue
came to be adopted as Pennsylvania
colors in the following manner:
In the summer OF 1875 a track meet
was held by the citizens OF Saratoga in
connection with the annual boat races
Pennsy lVania had, up until this time.
never entered Intercollegiate track
competition. but that year sent a lone
representative, II. L. Geyeln. II tho
present president OF the Pennsylvania
Athletic Association.
Numbers were not attached to tho
competitors at that time. but instead
the athletes ran under different colors
Geyeln was asked what colors he was
running under. and when he said thar
he had no colors lie WAS told that ha
would nave to select some II hap
pened that lie was wearing a red ard
blue striped cap al the time. and so
he selected those colors. This was the
first time Red and Blue" was worn In
public AS colors OF tho university in an
intercollegiate contest.
/ In an enieavor to improve the geu-
eral standard of English field athletics
before the next Olympic games. the
/ Field Events Association has evolved
the plan OF awarding medals to ell
/ British athletes who equal or exceed
certain set standards during the SEN
son of 1913. The medals can be won
at any time and at any meet thereby
different from the standard medals
given By the Amateur Athletic Assoc
citation, which are only granted to COM
! petitors in "a championship meet. For
/ the first year the standards have heen
made moderate, comparing favorably
with American inteischolastic marks.
and being AZ follows:
! Running broad jump 90 feet: hop,
/ step and jump, 43 feet standing broad
jump. feet inches: running high
jump, feet inches; standing high
\ jump. feet inches; pole vault. 10
/ feet inches: javeln throw. 100 feet;
discus. $50 feet; shotnut, IS feet; ham
iner throw, $50 feet; cricket ball throw,
/ 10 yards.