Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08


Mclaughlin calls attention to the
fact that quite often the most power
ful servers strike wildly, intending to
score by pace alone, and on the other
hand. he instances Norman Brooke, Of
Australia, whose service is admitted
" one of the most successful in the
world. and is meant to throw his OPP
moment on the defensive merely by
skillful placement. Mclaughlin also
mentions a powerful young fellow. in
California tournaments, who has such
speed that he could serve an absolute
" unplayable ball by putting all his
weight and strength behind it, but he
can get it into the court only about
once in ten drives. His final conclu-
sion is that player would have to
come down quite bit in his pace and
sacrifice taking a chance at placement
in order to devote himself to safety,
and hence it would really slow up and
not speed the game.
The truth of the matter is tIat ev-
eryone nowadays seems obsessed TO
alter rules-to make over everything
in sight, not because 1t needs altera-
ton. but for the mere sake of change.
Football and baseball legislators have
set a good example this year of let
ting rules crystalliZe. The same wis
dom let US hope, will reach the ten
mis- legislators.
DARKE DAVIS, OF Princeton, offers
the following two suggestions for
the paritication of amateurism, with
a penalty of expulsion. He states that
as Intercollegiate athletics have great
honors to bestow, demand in return
for the exclusive service of the recip-
lent Of those honors for three sum-
mers is not too much to ask.
T. certify upon my honor that /
have never, directly or indirectly, par
ticipated in any branch of sport Tor
pay. that | have never received any
valuable thing in lieu OF money, eX-
eep; medals and prizes regularly Of
fered, and that have never particl-
pated in any branch of sport under an
assumed name.
. No student shall be eligible fof
membership upon any competitive
team who, after matriculation, partic-
ipates in any sport at which an ad-
mission fee is charged except as
member of one of the colleges com
petitive teams. or who receives, d.
rectly or indirectly, any compensation
remuneration, reimbursement or pay
ment of his expenses for participating
in any sport at which an admission
fee is not charged.
1t would appear that, whether IN
tentionally or not, this would bar any
college student, even though mem
Der of his own home club, from par
ticipaticr in this sport OF that ciuo
during July, August and September.
DIR. EHLER, chairman of the COM
- mittee on football fatalities OF
the Collegiate Association, reported
that there had been only four deaths
through the year attributed to foot-
ball which on investigation brought
forth the fact that in only one case
was football more than a contrib
uting cause of death. DR.. Ehler said:
This game in particular, and in
tercolegiate sports in general. can
not stand or fall because of the num-
Der Of knees sprained, or the num-
Der of hearts dilated, or even the
number of lives lost, because lives are
lost in far larger way and with far
more dreful results through social
and neral Decentralization Ito which
these games are direct antidotes)
than through the physical injury of
comparatively few persons. The
question must turn upon the effects
Oh the playing upon the moral char
acter of the general student body"
[ nee more the American has taken
up game from the Englishman
ana has found occasion to alter the
tuies IN every material fashion. This
pme It is soccer football" Much
nas been said that will be remem-
oered in columns of papers about the
a,%IIy,antage of the sportsmanlike rule
mere shall be no substitutes" When
man is injured his team goes on