Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-02
JUNE IS MONTH
Of ATHLETICS
WASHINGTON TO TRAVEL
5000 MILES TO ENTER RACE
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP.
CREATES BETTER FEELING
international Contests Are Educa-
tional; Produce Higher Ideals
in Sport.

teams and competitors is at its maxi
mum No better illustration of the
remarkable growth of in%tersectiOnal
and international competition can be
cited than is shown in the thousands
of miles of land and water overed
by entrants Journeying to central
points Tor competition in a score or
more different sports. Several de-
cades ago a trip o. a. few hundred
miles for the purpose of entering a
sport event was a mile stone In the
life of an amateur competitor. So
rapidly have conditions changed in re-
cent years, however, that the average
member of a school team sees moth
ing unusual in such a tour of con-
quest. Since their elder brothers
travel thousands of miles for the pur-
pose of competing in a boat race,
track meet Or base ball series the
schoolby, with his modern athletic
ideals, views his little journey Of two
or three hundred miles in the same
light that his grandfather planned to
cross a city township for a baseball
game in the long ago.
Picture Not Overdrawn.
That the picture is not O"verdrawn
is proved by the fact that many COL
lege or club combinations as we'll as
private competitors are today speed
ing yer long stretches of rail or wa
ter and the same situation has pre-
vailed for several weeks and will con
tinue throughout the month of June.
Beginning with the college teams it
is possible to gauge the present var
sity athletic activity with a few strik-
ing examples. The University of
California track and field squad, con-
sisting of a dozen of the best athletes
of the Pacific Coast, are today on the
homeward swing of a 1000 mile cir
cult after competing in the intercol-
legiate track meet in Harvard's stad-
ium at Cambridge on Saturday. Long
before these spiked shoe athletes
reach Berkeley, CAL, the University Of
Washington eight-oared rev will be
%journeying across the continent from
Seattle to Poughkeepsie for the In.
tercollegiate Regatta at which the COL
lege rowing championship of the
OuAIOO OIolCS 10 uCSluCu. i "clto
Oarsmen and Coach COnibear will
comprise the squad which will travel
more than 5000 miles for the purpose
If meeting the best crews of the east
and middle west for rowing supre.
macy. The trip will cost at least
$4,000 and the transportation of a
sixty odd foot racing shell is not the
least of the problems of Conibear and
his crew captain. The case of the
University of Wisconsin crew is a
parallel one with the exception that
the Badgers travel but one-half the
distance that the Washington oars
men must cover.
Tennis Players Travel.
The creWmen are not the only ath-
letes to make transcOntinental tours,
however, for Leland Stanford Univer.
sity is sending the best members of
its track team to the conference meet
in Chicago in addition to competing at
several other sectional meets Ell
route. Even the tennis players come
in for similar paints for Stanford,
Michigan and several other rocquet
welding teams are now playing on
courts far from home. Neither is the
travel restricted to this country, for
foreign tours are almost as popular
as those made within the limits of
the states. The Union Boat club of
Boston is sending to the English Hen
ley,an eight-Oared crew consisting of
formed Harvard oarsmen; the pres
ence of American golfers at the Eng.
fish amateur title tournament made
that event an international ccmpeti.
ton; American club and college track
stars will compete as individuals in
the leading athletic meets of England
and the continent this summer and
the list might be continued with many
an added illustration of the spirit of
the American sports competitor to
seek new fields to conquer.
Europeans Great Travellers.
1t must not be concluded, however,
the American has a monopoly on this
desire to test mis- skill and endurance
against the world. The athletes and
sports devOtees of other lands are in
~cculated with the travel and cup hunt.
ing germs as we'll as our own amat-
eurs. From foreign shores will come
this summer an English polo team,
Davis cup tennis team and Sir Thorn.
as Upton in his fourth quest of the
Americas yacht racing trophy. Ger.
man, Australian and Canadian tennis
teams will also invade the United
States on winning possession of the
Davis Cup and the worlds team tell
mis- championship. European golfers
are also planning to play in the
United States title tournaments as a
return courtesy for the American en-
tries in the French and English cham.
%pionships.
Create Mutual UNDERSTANDING.
That these i"ntersectional and inter-
national competitions among amat.
eurs of top rank. in their respective
sports, bring about greater mutual
respect, appreciation and understand
ing of the pe%culiarities, ability and
craftsmanship of both localities and
countries there can be no question,
Occasional disputes regarding techni.