Evening journal., 1914-04-23
RUSSIA NOW Turns
TO Sporting CAME
Gar Watches Physical Cul-
ture Class and Offers
Suggestions
OLYMPIA IN MAY
Is THE PROGRAM
BY HAL SHERIDAN.
written for the United Press)

lWrltten Tor the united fress)
NEW YORK, April 2S.-Even Rus ,
sia is perking up and taking decid-
ed interest IN sports With France
maintaining an athletic university"
and Germany and England giving at
tenti0n to the sport field, Russia has
now joined the general rush to get
aboard the wagon.
grant OF S42,5O0 has been made
by the Russian treasury for the or
ganization OF the new government
Department of Physical Culture,
pending the appropriation by the
Duma OF considerably larger
amount for the first years work. Gen
eral Voyoikoff, the chief superinten-
dent Of the new department and his
assistants are now busily engaged
] in revising the statutes of the differ
[ ent sport organizations which viii
! hereafter be under the control Of the
new department The statutes are |
/ to be revised so that their various /
activities may be cO-ordinated and l
friction avoided.
On the board of management is a
representative from each of the gov /
ernment ministries and from each of
the seven sport leagues-heayy ath- |
letics, light athletics, lawn tennis, !
football, rowing, sailing and fencing.
The work of the department will be
distributed IN six sections: Hygiene,
and physical exercise. educational.
sports and gymnastics. propaganda.
statistical and inspection.
Gear Nicholas has watched the de-
velopments of the department with
the warmest interest and has made a
number of personal suggestions re-
garding its organization. The de-
partment expects TO conduct an ALL
Russian Olympic game meeting at
Riga in July, evidently everybody is
inspired with an ambition to lick
Uncle Sam at something. And every
body's welcome TO take a crack. Driv-
ing competition means that the stan
dard Of American athletics will have
to be raised gradually but with the
lead this country has il should be
many years before we are unhorsed
In discussing the American golfers
| in England to compete for the Dng-
D lish amateur title, the London Daily
D Mall made a real discovery for the
Q English and wrote about II. The Mail
Q hit pretty solidly at the secret OF
y j
1 when Il said:
0 1T is the spirit OF foresight. pcrse-
lverence and minute attention to details
0 that has brought American victory in
= so many and such varied branches of
2 sport, and it is precisely this spirit we
e in Britain, as a rule, lack, as We are
as deliberately casual as our foreign
0 especially American competitors are de.
0 liberately careful in that they bring
/, to these international contests extra
2, keenness, stronger desire to win and
D, soundcr and more scientific habit o
D. insurance against risks and far greater
i readiness 10 submit to necessary trouble
Is and discipline"
5. "Thoroughness" is the watchword il
= American sports. In baseball the gam,
Il has developed until the master mint
10 with an inferior club may lead bettei
5. team with inferior leadership. II i
the attention TO deail the careful plan
ming of attack and defense that win
ball games. as well as the slugging O
the batsmen and the work in the field.
In track and field sports, look bacl
n over the strides that have been mad
N during the past ten years. Record
have constantly been lowered, due a.
much TO "form" as to the development
TX of higher type of athlete. Not man,
a years ago hurdlers were topping th
ay sticks by taking orr from the left foo
at and then gracefully curling the righ
er leg with bend at the knee as the hur
0. die was cleared. The runner cleared tn
ey hurdle by several inches. Then Kraez
IS ilem introduced the "split" Instead o
ar wasting time in sailing gracefully owe
in the hurdle the right leg was lifted for
IT. ward and upward straight with inche
en- Ito spare. The clearing of the hurdl
to has now been "boiled down" until tn
sft fastest men make it with what is littl
n more than a long, high step. In a
US running the arms have been brougl
ne more into play. Il is recognized that
II man especially a sprintcr, may run wit
NO his arms almost as much a. with hi
rs legs. The straight up and dow
,er pumping" of the arms, bent at the g
iut bow by which the sprinter LITERAL
lifts himself along, coupled with the II
at land down action and reaching" wit
ed the legs has clipped seconds Oft ever
lily record. II is long since you have see
even a high school runner kicking h
heels up in back. II is ROW a case {
". reach forward lift the knees high an
avoid every lost motion.
ANUlinNnlluI- luAthti VIZ NN' MN
attention to details by the English, q
lDailv Mail said; "The consequence
that we rarely turn potentially frs
rate man into an actually iirst-ra
man." That is where this country no
shines at its best The training method
3. the years of study which have be-
given the various sports by the men i
terested in them, have brought o.
"form"-the result of superior trai
. ing-which makes a trained man
- mediocre ability better than a man
great native ability, but no trainin
4 and lifts the man OF natural abili
j from the class of the ordinary perfome
n TO that Of the record holders.
1 ST. ANN'S FIND THIS EASY.
1 The St. AIMS baseball team We
II from the fast st. Mary's nine by q
Score Of II 10 g. The playing of Ha