Evening star., 1914-02-08

cecdliG ten days. The gate money, after
deductins one-third for the club, will
SO to Covey.
1t is to the schools that we must look
foT material in all our varsity sports, hut
in none more than in hockey. s.. Paul s
School. New Hampshire. turns out the
best hockey players tor the college ranks.
Nearly every student there plays the
game. and their facilities arc excellent
This sport has grown in public interest
with leaps and bounds. and last car
! Harvard made il a major sport for which
the initiat III is awarded.
There is one point in which the Cana
dian player has the advantage of US, and
that is i'll the length OF the winter aud
the fact that from boyhood he gets prob
ably twice the mount of skating that our
boys do. Our Kinks are helping this con
dition, but it is still the fact that the
Canadian by-and-larGc is faster than the
average American player. And it is Il
fast. rough game UP there. especially in
some of the professional and semi -prcfe5-
sionai contests.
was once coming through Michigan
and met on the train q Canadian hockey
player u no had an injured shoulder. He
had just been witnessing oue of our foot
ball games. VI" said 10 me: u like your
game I've PLAYED Il hit III tanada.
Rugby * the Canadian sarnc, but like
yours better. They talk about il being
rough; II s 30; AS rough as our hockey
when really mean business, | got
this shoulder in A game. let me tell you
what had OH. had Il pair of
hockey shoes with steel braces on the
ankles shin guards and greaves run
ming up to my groin. Then / had on a
solid sole leather cuIrass running up 10
my ar'npits, heavy gauntleted gloves, a
nose piece and Il head guard: For all
that an opponent body chucke1 nc clean
off the surface and banged my shoulder
up like this Rather strenuous.
On" OF the most interesting events of
tho season thus far vas the opening of
tn. new rink In New Haven-so something
which has been needed for a long time.
and which will help college hockey
greatly The contest staged for this
opening vas Princeton ale and it
proved even more exciting that was c~-
rccted for Yale led UP to almost the last
minute of the play. when Princeton tied
the score at 3-3, and won out by really
superior playing in the extra period > TO
g. Hobey Baker. who did not shine IN
the first two periods, got going i'll the
last.
There is an old saying that Great
oaks from little aco,us gov. This IS no
reflection upon the 4th Company of the
18th Regiment. except that they had not
read the rule recently made by the ath-
letic congress relating to world events,
They announced III their poster that
Hannes Kolehnaineu and Abel Kiviat
would race at their games for the two
mile championship Of the world Now
the International Athletic Federation,
last summer. voted No other champion
ship of the world may be held in add
ton to these treferrins to the olympic
gamest. whether under the tue Oh
| Cha hampionshiDs Of the World, !-uro-
peau Championships, American OF
Asiatic Championships, or any other
oamcs of the kind. The committee. how
,.ver. may decide on and grant eScer-
tons to this rule In reading this law,
it looks like either a considerable CONT
down in the last paragraph or else mat
il is intended that this committee snaii
be able to distribute favors of tins klhd
in a rather important way. or course.
the ith Company was lrninedlatciy no.'-
ficd by Secretary Sullivan OF ITS mistake
and requested the withdrawal OF the
rsosters for after all there were some
other men who might dispute this qucs-
, ton. in the person Of Jean Hou'n. 'he
French champion: Kramer ana one OF
two British runners. who might have
liked to be, included if it had been going
to mean the worlds championship
| Now Abel kiviat and Hannes Koleh-
mainen have landed themselves in peck
| of trouble with that ill-starred race, Tor
when il was run they succeeded III Gov
ering the distance of two miles in tie
| in 1905 f., seconds. This Is II 20 sec
i onds behind the old record OF John Boh-
! hag. which IL some SolHs ioi Two hie,'
! that have. been heralded as likely to break
| all records When it Is added to this that
| these two at this slow time finished IN
dead heat, it is easy to understand tne
wrath of the spectators as Wen as the
| strong language of James r. Sullivan,
| secretary of the A. A. T., who promises
an investigation.
| On February ID, at the Waldorf-Astori
! will be held the meeting of the National
| Lawn Tennis Association. The proposed
| officials new amateur rule, as drawn up
| by Palmer Presley and others or the
| committee, is stirring up hornet nest.
| and the question is whether 1t will be
able to carry a two-thirds vote OF the
fassociation. The proposed rule allows the
| payment of legitimate expenses OF COM
| pettors in only three special classes OF
| tournaments and makes such payments
| illegal in all other classes. Seymour. OF
the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. Kinney OF
the 7th Regiment and several others
are already out with statements looking
| with disfayor on this proposition, and
several declare that such legislation is
likely to unfairly limit contests and they
mean to put up a strong hight against
such class legislation.
industrial development of the south. only
those who ar" in touch realize the prog
irCsS that is being made IN that sector
inf our territory athletic:ally. In fact
clos: observers believe that the south i:
going to surprise the north just as the
Pacific coast has surprised the east. an'
for siflilar reasons The Un1fed state
is now really dependent. and was las
year. for it's championship material il
tennis upon the Pacific coast. Every nov
and then team of athletes journeys from
that land Of sunshine and surprises tn
middle west and the far east with thei
liability The same conditions prevail il
the south except that its population i
more scattered athletically and 1t has no
yet had the peaceful times in which t.
deyelon that the Pacific coast has en-
io,ed. There is an annual winter eNodu
of thousands OF golfers, no. as soon Il
the first touch OF cold weather comes
he:riil fhniI. nilsrlmage. Hot Springs. Va.