The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-09
Devotces of Sport Now Prepar
ing to Transfer Their Activi-
ties to the Open.

New York, February s-The zenith
o. ne indoor ATHLETIC season will be
days OF the month the devotec of
sport Will be planning 10 transfer his
ACTIVITY or interest TO the open. The
Transformation will depend on spring
weather conditions. but .here Is evi.
dence abundant that the migratory
period is at hand.
During the next six days this and
other cities Will witness the gatherinr
OF competitors for several indoor Sport
championships and of those officials
ana ana associations whose rulings are
douhtedly the greatest interest will
centre In the doings of baseball mag
mates. who Will confer here during the
next three days Representatives. of
minor leagues will meet In addition
70 the announcement OF the American
League playing schedule some definite
iaea or the situation and plans OF both
organized baseball and the Federal
League may be expected.
Baseball magnates and players will
not be allowed TO stand in the centre
or the spotlight. however. to the ex-
oulsion of all other sports. for both the
United states Lawn Tennis ,Associa-
portant meetings. These are further
augmented by the fact that each as
sociation Will control international
OF worlds. championships.
while the soions Of these various
sports are planning for 1917 the ac-
pionshlps viii be equally busy. In
Brooklyn. the national squash tennis
championship tournament already is
will be the scene of the annual gold
racquet title play, while Philadelphia
and New York will act as hosts to the
;ndna o for the ne, squash. raequets and
These are but few of the leading
features of week in sport, both at
home and abroad.
Evidence Is developing to indicate
that college athletics are passing
through another Eeriod OF readjust-
ment. That the activity of the under
graduate in this direction Is one OF the
biggest problems that faculties and
governing bodies have to face in con-
nection, with college life. is admitted
Intercollegiate sport is the subject. of
never-ending discussion and confer
ence. Rules are made to check one
and angles crop out elsewhere.
That something IL radically wrong
is clearly indicated by the many dis
with startling rapidlty. Faculties. as
sociations and Undergraduates appear
more or less ut loggerheads. II may
be that the recent speech Of Charles
will help to clarity the situation.
Speaking on tho situation at Cornell.
Courtney opened radical al: and startling
thing wrong either with our athletics
or our athletes"
Then followed an arraignment OF
athletics.
Il don't believe in intercollegiate
sports when they arc carried to the
extent to which they are carried to-
day." said the coach II don't believe
in raking the country over with fine
toothed comb to find lot of star prep
school athletes and persuade them to
come to the university.
The time Is past In this country
when our great manufacturing and
other concerns rated our universities
according to the. standard Of their
athletic teams and the number Of ath-
letes they turned out. What they are
demanding Is good men. They are
looking for young men who come to
college to get an education.
we have arranged at Cornell for
this year eighty-six games and races.
Have you over stopped to think OF the
amount OF time 1t takes to prepare for
those games and races and to play the
games and row tho races7 Figure II
up and see 4 the faculty Is not Justified
In saying that IL tho boyn gave more
time to their proper work and less time
to their athletics the university could
turn out better mon.
ri have seen professor OF siblsy