Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
OUR DEVELOP inc
Of ATHLETES BIC
AID IN OLYMP les
United States HustIes for Funds
While Germany and England
Are "Loafng."
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suit, IL 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 If 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 Here.
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 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. u, Is taking a
mail vote on the question of appro-
, priating $4,000 toward this fund.
Probably many clubs also throughout
he oil 10 at,
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 If
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 col
ege organ, has made certain very
distinct changes against the present
annette system in vogue at the UNI
versity. They find great fault with
what the students get out Of the Ath-
ietic 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 without football the problem
is 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 col
lege spirit. And they are right, Tor
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 Neala,
I the baseball pitcher; Rother, former
crew man; Graham, the business
manager, and McCarty, the chair
man Of The Spectator.
Washington and Jefferson made a
| 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 well as
| sponsor for Washington and Jeffer-
| son and the University of Pittsburg,
| II 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
tyb Are tn
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 sectionn-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 fruls,
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 a line
of athletes from Pittsburg that made
name in Yale athletic annals not
to be forgotten. McClintock. Dalze J,
Oliver, ArbuthnoL in baseball,
Moorhead, Fincke, Rafferty, and
Flynn. in football, are still names
10 CCnJufe with, Wnlle tne ByerS IdH-
lily In golf and in the most generous
contribution to educational buildings
have materially aided Yale's deye'-
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 Nv )
universities have been continu'nE
over a long stretch Of years and the
relationship has been OF the pleas
ATTEST kind which argues well Tor
a permanent place in Yale's football !
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