Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
OUR DEVELOP|NG
Of ATHLETES BIC
AID IN OLYNP|CS
United States HustIes for Funds
While Germany and England
Are "Loafng."
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suit. If every preparatory school In
the country be provided with an
| expert trainer, and every university
with an expert trainer, who takes the.
men after they come from the pre-
paratory schools, and II each athletic
club has an expert trainer the
chances are that the development of
the country in which this athletic or
ganization is operative will turn out
more and better men in the special
ties for which they train than any
country working under the old hit
or-miss" methods
No Economy in Expenses Hero.
In all probability we are living, in
regard to the expenses of athletics,
upon very much the same plane that
we are living in other expenses, and
some day a halt must be called
Meantime, however, that does not af-
feet. our situation in the development
of athletes for the next Olympic
games, because an era of economy is
not likely to burst upon us suddenly.
While. as above stated, England and
the English committees and the Ger
man Parliament both failed in financ-
Ing the increased development of
| athletics, our widespread system will
go on working just the same.
Treasurer Julian w. Curtiss has
started the ball rolling in the way Of
raising the funds to send our athletes
to the games, and Secretary James E.
Sullivan, Of the A. A. IT,, is taking a
/ mail vote on the question of appro-
, priating $4,000 toward this fund.
! Probably many clubs also throughout
the country will be asked to join in
aiding this.
AS usual, Colonel Robert M.
Thompson, president of the Ameri-
can Olympic Committee, is making
Just as thorough plans for the care
of our athletes as for their develop
ment.' The team will take some
American cooks and it Is probable
| that their drinking water will all be
sent from here, and they are to be real
Bedouins, dwelling in tents in the
suburbs of the city of Berlin There
will be two or three large tents for
assembly rooms and individual tents
| for the athletes, which sounds good il
1t can all be put through. We hope
the location Will not be a trough in
case of rain.
Columbia Misses Football.
The Columbia Spectator, the coll
| lege organ, has made certain very
clsllnct changes against the present
| athletic system in vogue at the uni
versity. They find great fault with
what the students get out OF the Ath-
letic Association. also that the meth
DDS do not bring out a sufficient row
ing squad for Coach Rice to get re-
suits from, and, finally, that there
is room for much more getting to-
| gether. They confess at the outset
| that wjfhnnt fnnthn1l tho
is a difficult one in any institution,
and, of course, realize that what
would help more than anything else
would be the revival of that sport
This is not entirely on the financial
| side either, but on the side of coll
| lege spirit. And they are right, for
1t should be remembered that there
is the biggest university in the coun-
| try, in the point OF numbers, with a
splendid location and their position
in athletics should be high. The stu
dents have elected a committee for
! the investigation, consisting of Meals
the baseball pitcher; Rother, former
crew man; Graham, the business
manager, and McCarty, the chair
man of The Spectator,
| Washington and Jefferson made q
fine showing with their football team
| last year and their tie with Yale will
bring another test this fall.
| While Pittsburg is known as the
home OF the steel industry as we'll as
sponsor for Washington and Jeffer-
son and the University of Pittsbury,
1t is not generally known that we
have this same city to thank for the
| Introduction of the present game OF
| football which attracts so many thou
sand players and spectators through
the fall season. Dave" Schaff, OF
that city, was the man who first in
troduced really organized football at
Yale, away back In the early sew
entities. True, there are other points
at which the game was Just begin
ming also--at Michigan, Princeton and
some other sections-but Schaff had
| the advantage of having played foot
ball in England and he consequently
was able to land more definite ideas
which eventually developed into fruiC.
| the stimulus coming from Harvard,
whose teams had learned still more
| Of the English style of Rugby through
matches with Canadian teams,
Schaff was the fOrerunner OF line
OF athletes from Pittsburg that made
name in Yale athletic annals not
to be forgotten. McClintock. Dalze J,
Moorhead, Fincke, Rafferty, and
Flynn, in football, are still names
to conjure with, while the Byers fam
! lily in golf and in the most generous
contribution to educational buildings
| have materially aided Yale's devel-
opment Altogether, the Smoky
City" Is close to the heart Of Yale.
II is rather a singular coincidence
that at the same time that "Bronc"
Armstrong, a Virginian, has been
chosen TO head Yale's rowing contest
with the University OF Virginia
Baseball relations between the two
universities have been continu'uG
over a long stretch OF years and tho
relationship has been OF the pleas
ATTEST kind which argues well Tor
permanent place in Yale's football
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