The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-06-04
TRAVEL NOW PART
Of ATHLETIC
EDUCATION
Trips of Hundreds of Miles an
Every Day Matter With
Track and Field Teams of
Our Schools.
CALIFORNIA TEAM ENDS
1000 MILE CIRCUIT

NcW YORK, June an the hinlcN
calendar the perscnt nsonth mignt
APPLY De termed the month of travel
since u Is tho period Of the year ut
which the movement Of amateur sport
teams aud competitors Is at Iis max
imum. 30 better Illustration ul the
remarkable growth OF International
and International competition can un
cited than rs shown In the thousands
OF miles OF land and water covered
by entrants j~ourneyiuE 90 central
points Tor competition In % score vr
more different sports. Several decades
ago a rip OF q lew hundred miles Tor
the purpose OF entering a ,Iurt event
was "a mile ton ia the lie oi an am1-
teur competitor. So rapidly have cone
ditions changed in recent years, how
ever, that the average member of a
school team sees nothing unusual ia
such a our OF the conquest. since
their elder brothers trave! ,Luusands
of miles for the purpose OF competing
Ia a boat race, track meet or baseball
series he school boy. with his modern
athletic ideals, views his little Journey
uf two or three hundred miles In the
same light that his grandfather plauu-
cd to cross "a city or township for a
baseball game in the long ago.
That the picture Is not oyerdrawn Is
proved by h fact That many college
or club combinations as we'll as pri'
vatc competitors are today speeding
over long stretches of ran or water
and the same situation has prevailed
Tor several weeks ana viii continue
throughout the month uf June. Be
ginning with the college teams b Is
possible Ca gauge the present varsity
athletic activity with % few strikin-
example,. The UNIVERSITY OF Cuilior-
mia track and field aIuai, consisting
| OF "a dozen Of the best atuletes Of th"
Pacific coast, are today uu the home
ward swing Of "a Gnuu-mIIo circuit ti-
ter competing In the luiercollcgioto
track meet In Harvard stadium at
| Cambridge on SATURDAY, Long before
these spiked shoe athlete rcacn BorS-
cley. Cal. the University u Washing
ton cight-oarcd crew Will be journey
ing across the continent from Seattl"
tu Poughkcepsie for th, lntercolleg-
late regatta AT which The college
championship Of tho United states Is
decided. Twelve onTsm'r and Coach
Conibear viii comprlsD the squad
which Will travel mor' than 5000
miles for the purpose uf meeting IA.
best crews OF the ca-. md middle
west for rowing supremacy. The trp
will cost at least $4,000 lud the trans
portation of "a sixty udd foot raeinf
she'll is not the least ui .nc problems
of Conibear and his crew captain.
The case of the Universal of Wiscur-
sin crew b. q parallel u With The exc
eeptlon that the Bad-. travel but
one-hnlf the distance tnaI the Wash
ington oarsmcn must cover.
The crcwmeu are Not Ilc only utl-
l~letes Co make transcouf.uontal tours,
however for Leiand-st. ord unitrf-
, sitv is sending m. bes. members of
LIS track team Co the c'uierence mc.'
? IN Chicago la edition l compotiuE
, at several other sectional meets cr
route. Even the tennis layers come
! In FOR similar iaunts .'r Stanford.
= Michigan and several ..her Racquet
WELDING teams are now playlng un
y courts lar from home N,ither ls the
%traNel restricted 70 thi. country, for
o foreign tours are almu-' as popular
los thos made within Jh. limits of tuc
states. The Union Boat iuO of Boo
ton Is sending TO the Eu-lish Henley
an eight-oared crew cot sting of ior-
II NNNN NNhANNNA WNA HNNANA. .N NA'Hf II
OF American golfers 20. The Enslish
amateur title tournamtr. made that
event an -mtornatioaa! ,omBetition;
American cluJ and COLES, track stars
viii compete as individuals Ia tnc
loading athletic meets ai England and
, the continent this summer and the
, list might be- continued IN many an
added illustration OF u. spirit of the
American sports cOmpr'itor TO seci
new fields 20 conquer
n must not be concluded. however
the American has "a monopoly ON thi'
/, desire to test his skill aud endurance
. against the world. The athletes nno
sports deVOtees of other IandH are in-
i 0culatod with the travel md cup hunt
4 ing ern as well as lur own ANA
/ tours. From foreign shores will come
: this summer an Euslish polo team
: Davis cup tennis team and Sir Thonia'
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