Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

Mclaughlin calls attention to the
fact that quite often the most power
full servers strike wildly, intending TO
score by pace alone, and on the other
hand, he instances Norman Brooke, of
Australia, whose service is admitted
" one of the most successful in the
world, and is meant to throw his OPP
ponent on the defensive merely by
skillful placement. Mclaughlin also
mentions a powerful young fellow in
California tournaments, who has such
speed that he could serve an absolute
ly unplayable ball by putting all his
weight and strength behind it, but he
can get it into the court only about
once in ten drives. His final conclu-
sion is that a player would have to
come down quite bit in his pace and
sacrifice taking chance at placement
in order to devote himself to safety
and hence 1t would really slow up and
not speed the game.
The truth of the matter is that ev-
eryone nowadays seems obsessed to
alter rules-to make over everything
in sight not because 1t needs altera-
ton, but for the mere sake Of change.
Football and baseball legislators have
set good example this year OF let
ting rules crystalline. The same Wis
dom, let us hope, will reach the ten
mis- legislators.
DARKE DAVIS, of Princeton, offers
L the following two suggestions for
the publication of amateurism, with
a penalty of expulsion. He states that
as Intercollegiate athletics have great
honors to bestow, a demand in return
for the exclusive service of the reelp-
lent Of those honors for three sum-
mers is not too much to ask;
/. certify upon my honor that 1
have never, directly or Indirectly, par
ticipated in any branch OF sport Tot
pay; that ] have never received any
valuable thing in lieu OF money eX-
cept medals and prizes regularly Of
fered and that l have never partlcl-
pated in any branch of sport under an
assumed name.
2. No student shall be eligible toc
membership upon any comketitlVe
team who, after matriculation, parllc-
ipates in any sport at which an ad-
mission fee is charged, except as y
member of one of the colleges com
petitive teams, or who receives az
rectly or indirectly, any compensation
remuneration, reimbursement OF pay
ment of his expenses for participating
in any sport at which an admission
fee is not charged.
Ii would appear that, whether IN
to- mould
college student, even though a mem
her Of his own home club from par
ticipation in this sport Of that CLUB
during July. August and September.
DR. EHLER, chairman Of the COM
- mittee on football fatalities OF
the Collegiate Association, reported
that there had been only four deaIns
through the year attributed TO Ioot-
ball, which on investigation brought
forth the fact that in only one case
was football more than a contrip-
uting cause of death. DR., Ehler saiu'
This game in particular ana IN
tercollegiate sports in general, can
not stand or fall because Of the num-
Der Of knees sprained, or the num-
Der of hearts dilated, or even the
number of lives lost, because lives are
lest in far larger way and with tar
more direful results through soclal
and moral decentralization Ito when
these games are direct antidotesl
than through the physical injury OF
comparatively few persons. Inc
question must turn upon the eiIecls
of the playing upon the moral cnar.
acter Of the general student BODY"
ONCE more the American has taken
up a game from the Englishman
and has found occasion to alter the
rules in every material fashion. rms
time it is soccer football" Much
mas been said that will be remem-
oered in columns of papers about the
advantage of the sportsmanlike rule
There shall be no substitutes" When
man is injured his team goes on