Evening star., 1914-03-01
that it is for the voter never for a mo-
ment to forget this.

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land, contains only lone English-born
| subject. Taber, formerly a Brown run
ner. now Rhodes scholar at oxford: G.
| VI. Sproule, Rhodes scholar from AUS
country team. and Basil Rudd Of South
| Africa, led by A. N. S. Jackson Of Ok
l ford. compose the organization.
| Those who saw Norman s. Taoer run
| are immensely Interested over his good
| work as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.
| It also will be remembered that this A.
| N. 8. jackson is nephew OF Z. N
| Jackson. the dean of Hertford college,,
who has been sponsor for Oxford sports
| and Oxford and Cambridge athletic meets
with Yale and Harvard ever since they
we're inaugurated. A. n. 5. jackson
| probably did the most remarkable work
| in the Olympic games at Stockholm OF
any competitor, when he beat out kivfat,
! Taber and John Paul Jones. three Amer
leans. that we're our greatest stars These
i wo-milers-Taber and Jackson-are like
| ly to meet in the varsity mile at 1nley
and later both will represent Oxford in
the intervarsity contests at Queens Club.
Sproule defeated Taber in the Oxford
Cambridge cross-country run. so one may
gather some idea Of the quality OF this
team.
In addition, it is stated on good xu-
thority that the Olympic winner. Frank
Kelly, who won the 110-meter hurdles
at the Olympic games in ckholm,
Training School sprinter, will both ap-
pear at these events April 90.
At the University of Pittsburgh the
experiment of numbering foot ball
players has now been going on some
five years and has worked most sue
cessfully. Last year many of the
teams that met Pittsburgh made use
of the numbers. Under Manager Davis
the plan has been worked out in con-
siderable detail and will be an excel
lent guide to teams for this season
At Pittsburgh they changed the num-
home players wear different colored
numbers from the visitors. thus avoid
ing confusion. They report that 1t Is
a great success.
The keenest rivalry exists between
the University of Pittsburgh and Car
negie Institute of Technology, an in
stitution of 1000 students and II, as
Is reported Walter Steffens, former
star of Chicago. be obtained by Tech
a coach. the contest between him
and J. NJ. Duff. the former Princeton
all-American guard, who is coaching
the University of Pittsburgh, should
prove remarkably interesting to all
lovers of sport.
The most remarkable golf of the win
ter was played by James Il. Hyde Of
finals at Palm Beach for the south
Florida golf championship. His op-
ponent was H. B. harrington OF Wood
land.
Every now ard then it Is remarked by
a golfer, sometimes in the case of his
own game. more often in that of the
opponent. that there are days when once
started the little white ball takes on
some peculiar determination Of its own
and either refuses absolutely to go where
it should, with a vaxary equally
marked, determines, no matter in what
direction it is struck, to go looking for
the hole. In these latter days the player
may hit the ball With q mashie from
bobbing along searching for the hole and
If there Is any possibility OF 1t, ducks in
with a chTckle. Now Hyde happened upon
one of these days, and this is no dtsre-
IS and found himself down to Hyde's
three Is. two as. three 4s and 5, for
a ., running down puts from anywhere
off the green! This will stand for some
time as the outward record Of the course.
Hyde the next day defeated Richards by
up in a most closely contested match
Of SO holes
Phil1ips-Exeter and Phillips-Andover
academies met for the first time this
winter in a hockey match. Tt1is sport
has grown so popular and so prominent
at the colleges and schools that the RI
vairy which extends to other sports was
pretty sure to enter here, and THIS re-
suited in the scheduling Of q contest be-
tween these two old schools. Phillips
Exeter showed the same marked superb
ority in hockey that 1t demonstrated last
fall in foot ball. defeating its somewhat
bewfldered opponent no less than to !.
and it Eaay be said, in addition, that
Preston. the Andover goal Keeper, did
some heroic work In keeping the score
down to these proportions.
Once more the imperial parliament at
Berlin has fallen fov! Of the proposed
appropriation of $4,000 for the Olympic
games and finally passed it. This grant.
1t will be remembered, was rejected by
the budget committee in the middle OF
January. resolution was later intro
was s>partly political and partly due to
differences of opinion among the Turner
organizations. These voiced disapproval
of what they call the American ten.
and they called the American ideals OF
sport prostitution to the chase for rec
ords.' The socialists who defeated the
plan before still asserted that they were
sport. but would not vote a grant while
the workmen's gyn1nastic societies IN
Germany were excluded from representa-
ton on the Olympic COMMITTEES. The
minister of the interior had been worry
ing a great deal because he realized that
it would be a reflection on Germany II
she did not return the hospitality her
Olympic representatives had enjoyed some
half dozen times from other countries
Hence he was a strong advocate Of the
appropriation. The vote was finally passed,
but not without some compromises. And
Just a word about the Turner'S. one OF
the most remarkable organizations or
Germany. wonderfully comprehensive
institution.
Had F.redrick jain not lived. The teach
ings Of the Turner's might have passed
into oblivion. It was Jahn. the aggressive
jain, the popular leader who became the
father Of turning and in the Deutsche
Turnerschafte. which is today the most
truly popular Of German institutions. no
one can miss the strain Of intense pa
triotism running through Jahn's teach
inzs nor is there a turnverein today
whose songs have not freedom and the
fatherland for themes, and here, too IS
a lesson 1t is the British sohoolboy,
grown up to be the English colonist. who
carries his cricket and his foot ball
wherever he roams. No sooner was the
time Of vigorous struggle over for our
forefathers than a generation living In
security forgetting to teach their chill
dren bodily activity, left them to learn IN
the long forced marches Of a civil war
the need of bodily strength to meet
emergencies Immediately after the war
of the rebellion dates the revival OF a
desire for strong men and with II the
spring into prominence Of athletic SPORTS.
It was Father jain and the turner's
who forced upon the German government
the value OF strong men and patriots just
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