Evening star., 1914-04-26


| hockey" Regulation is good. but young
America won't stand for too much of
it. and it IS better to so slow rather
than tie him up until he kicks the
traces over In real earnest and becomes
a little rebel
Dean Briggs. in commenting upon the
evils besetting our college athletics, says:
What ! have said is an old story.
garded by some persons as that brainIess
conservatism which would stop express
train by putting a hand on the track. or
would pit against the lusty garrulity of
athletic youth the futile garrulity of a
back number" Is there not some happy
medium?
a paper prepared by Prof II. s Win
gate OF Ohio State University sets forth
the results of an inquiry conducted among
the colleges as to the value of athletics
letics cost. and the figures referred to
were elected in answer to these ques-
tions:
What physical exercise and recreation
are you providing for the students who do
not take part in intercollegiate athletics?
How many students participate in these
sports: How much money is expended
annually on these activities? What is
the number of male students?
This table answers most of the qucs-
tions, which 143 colleges answered:
Number of Number Of
students male
engaged cost students.
afhle.ies " 1889 sl,osoooo lIi,ooo
Intercollegiate
athietirs - 45.s7s 1000 ,11,cco
Attention is called" said Dr. Wingate
to the relatively small number of men
engaged in intercollegiate sports and the
large amount of money expended on these
activities, and to the almost insignificant
sum of less than 100000 spent for non
varsity athletics
Yes. but does DR.. Winsate not real
ize that the whole development of
| sport in this country has been brought
about largely by intercollegiate con-
tests and that intramural athletics
would have been much less were it
not for the Intercollegiate Further
more. when he gives the amount of
money expended, he should realize
that the very large proportion of the
cost of intercollegiate athletics comes
| from the necessity of preparing fields,
stands. etc. for the attending crowds.
| all Of which the intracoilege athletics
enjoy. but which does not appear in
their expense item.
Much criticism has been passed re-
gardins college athletics, as well as other
athletic sports in this country, and an
| opinion. somewhat erroneous. has been
| fostered to the effect that only those
few individuals who appear on the
field in the match get the benefit of
the game. Now. as matter of fact.
| it requires hundred candidates to
develop every dozen. so that 80 per
cent probably never appear in the final
| contest. Then. too. much has to be
said for the spectator An English
writer. Benson. gives an original view
on this follows:
There are, no doubt. other emotions
that help to make up the spirit of
| the spectator besides that inspired by
the marvel of the antagonistic comb-
nations which he watches. There is.
| for example. a kind of tribal instinct
within the circuit of patriotism) that
| attaches this man to the fortunes of
! this club. and that to anothers an in
! stnct that may rise from the place of
ones birth. or domicile. or from arbi
| trary sympathy. There is. in all
some kind of danger being present
| One, would not. forNinstance. see a
| hundred thousand persons gather at
| the Crystal Palace to see two teams
under rules which forbade charging
| compete in blowing a feather through
I opposite goals.
| The man who plays for his parrish may
be the better sportsman. but the Northum-
brian. who travels all night and back the
next solely that he may see his side vic.
| torious. or even beaten, is incompa ra bly,
| the finer artist
| One of the points brought out quite
strongly in the recent religious convoca- =
! ton at New Haven was the adyisa bility
of closer touch between faculties and stu
dents in the matter of athletics. and in
one or two papers there was strong ad-
Nocacy OF the students more directly man.
| aging their own affairs in these matters
and the selection of their own commit
| tees. Perhaps the remark of Courtney
the Cornell coach. made in one of his
speeches in the west would be of interest
| i'll this line. He said:
| Now. let us look at this from another
angle. ] believe that if had any way of
| finding out the standing OF my boys
could help matters. I never tried to find
out but once. and that WAS a long time
the crew. and I suspected that he was
| neslecting his work the hill So
thought ] would go up and find out. I
Went up to a certain office on the hill 7
didn't find out, what the standing of that
young man was>in his classes. but 1 did
find out what my standing was with the
faculty.
In a great many of the colleges and
universities today this criticism might not
hold for one of the points which under
graduate CAPTAINS and managers follow
very strongly nowadays is the necessity
of seeing that the men their teams
keep up in their studies. One of the first
remarks made at a gathering of candi-
dates for any sport by the captain and
coach is likely to be to the effect that
they want 10 candidates who cannot keep
up their college stand.
This is working well for both sides.
John G. Anderson in a test for the
values in actual play of the guilty ball
and the rubber core. furnished a par
ticularly interesting comparison of
play over nine holes on the Albemarle
course in Newtonville. Mass He con-
demns entirely anything like consid-
GRAFTON of going back 10 the old guilty.
but his experiment will give oppor
tunity for much criticism of his con-
clusions. and this he evidently antici-
pates He made a Al with the rubber
core and AZ with the guilty.. OF course.
this is extraordinary in view of the
fact that he was thoroughly expert
enced in the use of the guttv. In other
words. he made his best-judged strokes
with the guilty and his poorest judged
strokes evidently with the rubber core.
However. the one thing that will give
rise to the greatest criticism is his
description of one or TWO topped shots
where the rubber went quite as
far from topped shot as the guilty
did when fairly hit. Now the question
a man should not be much more Sc
verely punished for topped bali than
he is. according to Anderson's own state
ment with the present rubber core. In
fact. in all Anderson's description of the
play it is marked that mistakes were far
less serious wien made with the rubber
core than when made with the guilty.
The main point. however. is undoubtedly
that players would never be content with
the loss of distance incident to the return
to the solid ball. and that would be
enough to bar any such chance.
a few more good words for the develop
ment of athletes in later life can be found |
in looking over the roster of men back In |
the eighties. George f. Vincent, the pres