Evening star., 1914-03-15

prayers cNlutiltlN
SS4& gard contracts like
stamps and are bent
upon making u collection of them.
Even the muscles of the tired runner
respond to the cheer of his friends as
he comes down to finish line in the lead
I.INCH-HiTTEH JOE.
MS chance il comes but seldom. and he's mostly
''in The thatch:
His eyes ar focused on the men who make the
match
With hit and buut and scurry. with stop and
He watchrs all The players and be secs his
chances
Through the long ,lrawn-out eighth inning on the
bench be sits and dreams:
Then the sudden break il 6nds him when the
coach tUrnS around and screams.
From bc,,ch he leaps and clutches his bat for
For th,. coaeh is calling loudly for '.Pincnhit,cr
J,-.''
And now he stands out boldly. aud the crowd
they cali and jeer:
His jaw is set and steady. his face it shows no
lie faces now the pitcher who winds up rather
Aud sends the ban across tho plate with down
ward dropping throw
ono strike tho umpire calls 1.-THE crowd they
h,llcw more;
a mao IN third. two out now, run to tie the
Aud Ioc he clips the next through short he
1T
And then the crowd cheers madly for their GEAR
Pinch-hittcr Joe
To those who labor under the delusion
that only the men actually playing on
first teams get the benefits of athletics
in the colleges the following facts re-
Iating to Yale. Princeton and Harvard
viii he of interest.
according to the figures taken at New
Haven in the fall there Were l,70s men
engaged in athletics. divided as fol
lows: Crew, 81; foot ball. %; track, 2z;
base ball. IS; soccer. %: tennis. 145;
~: gym team, L.: fencing, 20; boxing,
Al: wrestling, so; hand ball. A; squash.
-. bowling, Is: gym. estimated. ESQ;
swimming, estimated. 800: total, $50.
Freshmen-Crew, so; foot ball, AZ:
tennis. ST; track. 40: cross-country. Is;
base bail. 50; boxing, Is: wrestling, SO:
gym. IS; total, 47s; grand total. 1.7os.
OF the university enrolment A per
cent reported in athletics at Harvard.
$50 more than last year. There was
gain in every sport except tennis, the
greatest being in foot ball.
In the death of Alexander Moffat
Princeton loses one of her most ardent
foot ball graduates, man who made
marvellous record in the Princeton
backtield in the early SOS. and who
ever since has taken an especial in
, tercst in the gridiron sport in New Jer-
sey. Moffat was a member of the rules
committee. appointed by the now de-
funct University Athletic Club. which
rules committee. He served on that
committee with Dashiell and Bob
Wrenn. Mofat was himself splendid
kicker. his pecuiiarity being that he
foot. and was good goal kicker as
we'll. For many years after. graduation
he assisted in coaching kickers, and
also gave his aid to the base ball nine,
for he was pitcher as well as foot
ball player.
\ dispatch from London shows what
happened to the English schoolboys due
to the result of the visit of the Giants
and White Sox. These boys at one OF
The London county schools laid out q
diamond and. relying upon the descrip
tion of the game which they had clipped
from the newspapers, they proceeded &c
have real game of American base ball
They used a broomsticl> for bat. an6
presumably cricket ball for a base ball
Speed seems to have been their main pur
pose and at the end of ten minutes the
catcher was weeping with the pain OF
stone bruises in his hands, the frs
baseman had bleeding nose while th'
Datsman and pitcher had adjourned from
their relative positions to settle dispute
with fiStic battle.
TIE Yale gymnasium seems to be kepi
well abreast OF the times for il was an
80 - 80 - - -
tAaso' ieSltaGuL alu othel IeN uahGe' ~.
were oeins suosti,u,ed tor some OF tn'
tprit' mloi,o'o!lous ulilt ahu nov o'
0'ileS @ut w .tt5 st.tts'ie5. tllat tie "tloi'
10 ne altered and competitive athletics in
ou - - ~ i.s ~ i,.1e. -, o;,ss ; :,
~ :. .itV W 20 u -, - !, - .i,9,.i M
Familiarity AT all with the instruction o
povs from fifteen to twenty-one years o
~" viii confirm the View expressed tina
vuatcv.r else may happen under thes,
conditions interest Will be stimulated
luudrcdfold. In fact. it did not need thi
FINAL blow 10 show that exercise merel,
for the sake of exercise without any com
pctitivc spirit and without any definit
obicr, to be attained IS of all hyGieni
s,ihterfuseS the weakest in the point o
results.
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