Evening star., 1914-05-31

1t is well to put on record here two OF
three Of the remarkable performances OF
this young man. He had seven opponents
in the recent match, one after another,
and while he was making his seven times
400 points. his opponents, all together
made only 1,166. Hopes grand average
was nearly % to the next highest man 6
IA and a fraction. and Hoppe made one
run Of 303.
Such an authority as Maurice DAILY Is
strong in his praise of Inman's skill
and he tells of some of the feats. espe-
cially mass shots, that Inman executed
in his rooms. On the whole. people
are becoming very much interested in
this sport, and an international match
of this kind will add quite materially.
Some idea Of the way it is regarded on
the other side of the water is that the
winners names between oxford and
Cambridge have for long time been
printed in the Book Of Blues.
The Yale BOWL as 1t is called, is
now the scene Of the hardest kind Of
work, not by athletes. but by the con-
tractors and employees of the con
tractors. They are scooping out the
big bowl, have already built the retain
ing wall, with some thirty entrance
tunnels, and in a few weeks nothing
will remain to be done but the grad
ing and adqrning Of the outside banks
and the placing Of the seats. the level
and the cutting down Of the big banks
surrounding the structure. 1t Is highly
probable that although all the seats
cannot be laid the structure will be in
of the foot ball games being played
there next fall.
There Is going to be a rush for star
college ball players in the latter part
of June and already there has been
NJ an 20
tween the club owners or managers in
the professional leagues and some OF
these young men. The entrance of
new league like the Federal into the
field and the success Of such men as
Connie Mack in securing and develop
ing college players has placed an en-
tirely new light upon the matter. and
parents are likely to be considerably
their boys are star players on winning
college mines. However. here is one
consoling thing for such parents to
bear in mind. The real league player
and the real major league organization
today is q high-class proposition. The
player takes the best Of care Of him
self (of course, there are exceptions to
the rule in this profession as well as
the average is highl. and there is moth
ing of the old rowdy, bush league ele-
ment about 1t. Here is perhaps the
origin Of the mistake that many people
make, elIner one way OI lio oSucI
have noticed that those who argue that
college players should be allowed to
play summer ball mix up the situation
g great deal by telling how high class
these major professional base ball
leagues are today. forgetting that it
will not be these men at all who will
play on college mines. The summer
base ball player, who then goes to col
lege and goes back in the summer to
base ball, is not a major league player
The college player at the height of his
proWess may be drafted into major
league ball, but the major league ball
field is not the hunting ground for the
college manager.
An investigating committee, consisting
of H. Shindle Wingert. Ohio State Uni
versity; Raymond G. Clapp. University of
Nebraska, and Charles E Hammett.
Northwestern University. shows that $50
colleges have spent 100000 a year on
athletic sports, Yale and Princeton not
Included At Harvard 1t costs 100000, a
year and this committee estimates there
are only 400 varsity men. SO that it con-
cludes that the cost of perfecting Har-
ward in athletics amounts to $4O0 a man.
Cornell expends $75, 600: Wisconsin, $45,-
600: Brown, $4,000; California. $1,000,
Stanford, $4,000; Minnesota, $30,O09:
Pennsylvania, $24.O00; Pittsburgh. $4,000;
Vanderbilt, $4,000: Columbia. $4,000.
Tho committee states that it learned
thse 1A8 colleges were doing nothing
10 fogser and encourage the types of
rh,,ss..I ~Yerrase and healthft1l recrea>j