Evening star., 1914-08-16

E%2zHW fatal error comes.
A foot ball linesman need not be as
big as a public building.
Most practice behind closed gates in
foot ball has proved to be building
sphinx with no secrets to put in her.
THE NEW FOOT BALL RULES RELOCATE
THE COACH TO THE SIDE LINES.
There is no coach 10 help us,
We're playing for fair, they say it is square
And we've nothing 10 do but play.
There is no coach TO tell
Where this foot or that shall 50.
We're playing alone without chance TO oe
And there before us the foe.
There is no sign from the side line
For kick forward pass.
And make a sad error, alas.
There is coach to
They have left us to do or to die
II feels mighty strange TO think of the range
OF the plays that we're free to try.
There's a new life comes DER us.
There's stir in the blood and the brain brain;
IL feels mighty good to find that we should
Have chance to play as to train.
There's new love comes to us.
ni'i' Nsoi' Ai' 'iS WIN NA0N sN>
1t may seem to be mean but it makes feel
lust to think that we've something to win.
While it seems almost shallow to dis
cuss athletic events in the presence of the
great anxiety all over the world on ac-
count of the plunging into war of Eu-
ropean nations, as a social and economic
matter it has a distinct bearing There
are. many who believe that if the world
Development in athletics had continued
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it would perhaps have been possible.
through these means and the better un-
derstanding of the countries. one for an
other, to have postponed or delayed action
until peace interests could have succeeded
in queliing the disturbance However that
may be. what We must look forward to
now. is every possible effort toward pre-
vention or limitation of the frightful slaugh-
ter which forbodes, and If any way opens
through the athletic affiliations of the coun-
tries no matter how improbable the effort
may seem to be on the face of 1t, it Is worth
trying. for those interested in athletics
in the various countries form the bone
and sinew of the armies
There has been no greater shock in the
last fifty years (and this period includes
almost the entire history of many of our
athletic contests) than war in Europe.
1t bids fair to dislocate international
The war of the rebellion in this country
set back athletic development for long
period and of course that war was in
6lkLHItdHt III WI ~ SiiSSsS SohApoASo ~
Another strange feature about this war
as compared with others is the presence
of so many of our representatives connect
ed with athletics in the various countries
involved.
Sweden came to us and took Ernest
djertberg. former Columbia track coach |;
German came over here and obtained the
services of Kraenzlein, former Pennsyl-
vania runner and Michigan coach. for
her athletics; Kraenzlein is in this coun-
Aust fria hao a A
former runner and later Yale track
coach, and now Hungary has obtained
Lawson Robertson, although he has not
yet started, and only few weeks ago
Claudia Carpi came from sunny Italy
to study American training methods. and,
if possible, to report back to Milan that
he has obtained an American trainer to
act under the instruction of the Italian
olympic committee as coach OF his fellow
countrynlen.
mentary upon American trainers ana
American methods.
So close have the countries become to
each other through international contests
that the interest is no longer local. This
have been the Gould-Covey court tennis
match for the championship OF the world.
the polo contest for the cup. the grand
challenge cup of the Henley regatta, the
contest for the Davis cup in tennis, and
now We have all been looking forward to
the contest for the Americas cup for
Wlleh the STdnlTOtk ~ Is CiosSiHS tHS
water. AS the yacht race has had to be
sacrificed to the war. all these other
events would have been impossible
This brings out another incidental loss
thargeable to the war. for 1t probaoly
Will put Upton out of pocket close to
S-ts2.e0a and it has cost us on this side
Si0G.Cob to determine the fact the De
lance was of little use as a racing yacht
-vhne an equal amount more will have
;,eon snent on the Resolute and Vanitie
Moreover. we had hoped to see Apple
1Tth the British champion. over here FOL
he athletic contests at Toronto in Sep,
tember.
This column commented a short time
ago upon-the splendid sporting venture Of
Jim Barnes the old Princeton athlete
in entering darkest Africa and traveline
for year and half through the Uganda
country making moving pictures of wil6
life for the purpose of presenting then
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rappened that short time ago in Lon
don, Nine. Grouitch. the heroine OF thu
iate Balkan wars. decorated by Servia
bulgaria and Turkey, heard of Barnes
eHo:ts and arranged a private exhibitor
Ior his pictures before a dozen or 81
of the most influential people in London
including Prince and Princess Alexis
Karageorgevitch. Marquis and Marquis
Ordond De Rosales, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralpl
Page of the American embassy. the Hon
Mrs, and Miss Cunliffe Lady Northclin
and Countess Gleichen. 1t was a mos
gracious act and prompted by the lov
of her countrymen, whlch mas AWAY
characterized Nine. Grouitch, for she
a West Virginian by birth.
4 tremendous interest is developing ol
account of the war in the work of aero
pianes and one must confess that
would not be bad plan to hold on Z
such men as We have here. for instance
ike Beachy and Brock.
The writer had the pleasure OF seein
a part of the air race from London 7
Manchester, which was won by tn
american. Mr.. Brock. and later hearin
the views expressed as to the qualit1e
which gave this cool young flyer his con
tinued successes. fortnight before h
had won the "ar derby through tn
qualities. Like Beachy. he is
man of great concentration cool judg
'nent and though opposed by machine
that were surely IN many cases NOR
powerful than his, this American fro:
Chicago finished first again. because hi
eighty-horsepower "Gnome" was in pei
feet shape for the contest and becaus
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