Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
n THE death of Alexander Moffat,
Princeton loses one of her most

y THE death of Alexander Moffat,
Princeton loses one of her most
ardent football graduates, man
who has made marvellous record in
the Princeton backfeld in the early
eighties and who ever since has taken
an especial interest in the gridiron
sport in New Jersey. Moffat was a
member of the rules committee, APP
pointed by the now defunct Univer-
sity Athletic Club, which formed the
nucleus of the present rules commit
tee. He served on that committee
with Dashiell and Bob Wrenn. Mof-
fat was himself a splendid kicker,
his. popularity being that he could
punt or dropkick with either foot,
and was a good goal kicker as well.
For many years after graduation he
assisted in coaching llickers and also
gave his aid to the baseball nine. for
he was a pitcher as well as foot
ball player.
A DISPATCH from London shows
what happened to the English
schoolboys due to the result of the
visit of the Giants and White SoX.
These boys at one of the London
County schools laid out a diamond.
and, relying upon the description of
the game which they had clipped
from the newspapers, they proceeded
to have a real game of American
baseball. They used a broomsticll for
a bat, and presumably cricket ball
for a baseball. Speed seems to have
been their main purpose and at the
end of ten minutes the catcher was
weeping with the pain of stonebruises
in his hands, the first baseman had
q bleeding nose, while the batsman
and pitcher had adjourned from their
relative positions to settle a dispute
with a fistic battle.
T HE Yale gymnasium seems to be
kept well abreast of the times,
for it was announced only a short
time ago that the tango, hesitation
and other new dances were being sub
stituted for some of the former mo-
notonous drill work, and now comes
out the statement that the whole
form of gymnasium education there
is to be altered and competitive ath-
letics introduced in it's place, the de-
sign being to get rid Of the old drudg
cry and inspire real interest. AM
one who has had any familiarity at
all with the instruction of boys from
fifteen to twenty-one years of age
will confirm the view expressed that
whatever else may happen under
these conditions interest will be slim
ulated hundred fold. In fact, it did
not need this final blow to show that
exercise merely for the sake of eXer-
else without any competitive spirit
and without any definite object to be
attained is of all hygienic subterfuges
the weakest in the point of results.
OSCAR MATHIESEN, the holder of
~ the Norwegian championship, has
Just won the championship of the
world at the contest at Frogner, near
Christiania, held last month. He COW
cred 500 meters in Az seconds, 1900
meters in 2 minutes 26.1 seconds, 500
meters in minutes 20 3-5 seconds.
IppolitoW, the Russian, won the
10,000-meter event in IS minutes
a. Ia seconds. The conditions were
unfaVorable for fast time
Mathiesen did the 500 meters for
the record in A fiat, in Christiania a
year ago, and holds also the amateur
record for 1000 meters of / minute
Il AS seconds at Davos back in 1910.
His record for the 1900, which is
a9ain a worlds record. is minutes
90 3-5 seconds, made in 1872 The
record from which the measurement