Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-21
WAR PUTS A CR|MP into
. INTERNATIONAL CONTESTS
Slim Chance of United States Ath-
ietes Winning Back Polo or Ten.
mis- Championships 1915.
HERzoG HAS CASE OF GoLE1T1s
Reds Manager Never Could "Sce"
the Sport Until He Tried the Game.
is Now an Enthusiast-Pittsbu
Likely to Adopt One-Year Rule.

Uncle Sammy's chances OF winning
back the pole and tennis championship
cups In 1915 are remote, because Of
the general European war.
1t is unlikely that there will be an
international polo match between Eng
land and America next year. Most Of
tho men who made up the 1914 English
polo team were army officers. They
are hghting in the war now. 1t Is
possible that one or more has been
killed or wounded.
Even II war Is over by next spring,
1t is not likely that a match will be
arranged as 1t Will take England a
merclally and In military way and
1t Will not have much time to think OF
or indulge In sports
Tho same Is true concerning the Aus
tralian tennis team which won the Da-
Wis Cup last summer. Anthony +.
Wilding and Norman E. Brookes. the
main cogs In the championship team,
are on the firing line for the allies and
have given up all tennis thoughts
Charles Herzog. who manages the
reckless Reds has become so badly
AFFLICTED with golhtis that he has about
decided to quit raising crops on his
Maryland farm and Will have the farm
laid out as golf course.
Never could see the sport in golf
~
says Herzog. II used to think 1t was
child's play to knock that innocent
looking, PROSTATE ball a couple of
miles
We'll, just for exercise swung at
the bal with club that belonged to
friend of mine l missed. That made
me vexed. ] swung again-and swung
low. That time [ nearly knocked the
bottom out of the tee.
What's the use OF going farther?
Golf got me like 1t does nearly every
body else 1t looks so simple that you
think 1t Is waste OF time hitting the
ball until you try to hit 1t. And when
you try and miss the ball seems to
laugh at you. 1t seems to jeer you
into taking another swipe, and the Oft
ener you swipe the oftener you want
to swipe."
Herzog grows oats on his farm.
Unless somebody builds golf
course In my neighborhood by next fall
III quilt sowing oats and I'll use the
oat field for golf course" Herzog
said.
The University OF Pittsburgh expects
to adopt the one-year residence rule to
govern all athletic teams, at the jan
uary meeting of the University Athletic
Council
The rule is the most drastic elIgibn-
ity requirement that colleges demand
and is lived up to only by such colleges
as Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Cornell
and Pennsylvania and teams in the
Western Conference, AlI-Missouri VAL
ley conference.-the Ohio Conference.
Under this rule no student Ia eligible
FOR varsity athletic competition until
he has been in residence In the univer-
sity for one year.
The University OF Pittsburgh, which
Is now 125 years old. has a student en-
rollment OF 5000 and ranks as one NJ
the biggest colleges in the country.
Pittsburgh has made n remarkable
record in athletics during the past nve
years especially in football, and has
been demanding recognition of tho
larger Eastern colleges. The adoption
of this rule is expected to bring this
about.