Evening star., 1915-02-28

March Romeyn Berry will put on
the boards of Madison Square Garden
the greatest indoor meet that inter-
collegiate circles have ever witnessed.
More than 500 entries have been r
ceived, and all the universities promi-
nent in athletics will be entered. the
relay races that will furnish the ex.
citement OF the evening Ing are st the soo soo
yards and 1000 yards. A trial also viii
be made of the medley relay. which Is
to be a feature of the Pennsylvania
relays in April. We shall also have a
chance to see whether the trip abroad
Wesley Oler OF Yale, whose style Is
very attractive. Our old friend Whit
ney of Dartmouth will be seen IN Ine e
weight event. Cornell sends nearly 2oo
names of entries. while Penn mas ~;
Havard. so; Dartmouth and Yale, 40
each; Penn State, 35; Syracuse, Am
herst and Brown a dozen each. Hence
If only half the nominations come 20
the scratch the meet will be a big
one. A measure Of the interest outside
tn, relay races can be gained from the
fact that the 150-yard sprint Will see
some ten colleges represented, ana
nearly fifty men are likely to toe the
scratch for this event alone.
When the Vanderbilt cup race and
the Grand Prix are out of the way the
interest Of the visitors to the Panama
exposition will turn to the mammoth
beginning April 9. To the student or
athletics these events are of especial
interest. as they embody two new prin- n
ciples, first a division into classes oy
cation necessary in entering of phy,
sician's certificate. This latter shou!o
be required at every school meet IN
the country, and some day will be re.
Sa$n
as well. Another feature that shows
real athletic wisdom is that the dis
tances for the 100-pound class are
kept fairly short 1t would be wise to
make them shorter still, for the great
est evil connected with schoolboy rae
ing today is permitting these young,
sters to go as far as their typical
American sand will drive them in
races of a distance suited only to the
more mature. We are hurting the
hearts of too many boys in this
fashion. and medical men know this
even If the schoolmasters sometimes
forget it. Nature gives her warnings
when she makes these foolish, little
heroes drop fainting at the end of a
race She is kind mother and does
not punish for the first or even the
second offense. but when the boy goes
on making such extreme demands upon
that immature heart she reaches the
point when she has forgiven him for
the last time and then it takes years
to make him partially sound again.
Thousands throughout the country
are interested in the struggle for the
re-introduction of foot ball at Colun,-
bia. and while the situation up to last
fall looked pretty hopeless there is
undergraduates and friends of the
university and such a reasonable at
titude as to the way the sport should
be put back that it does seem as
l. to fol hon
lumbia once more to appear upon the
gridiron and renew her youth in this
sport. While there may be objections.
we'll founded, to Columbia's going in to
cipal reasons for the abandonment Of
the sport have, through changes in the
rules and the general methods. been
rendered invalid now, and the fact that
throughout the country have developed
makes it reasonable to suppose that
intra- mural foot ball at this university
could easily graduate into enough out
side foot ball to start with reason
able schedule.
Two Of our oldest foot ball univer-
stiles have made decided shift in
into effect next season. They are
Princeton and the University of Penn
sylvania. The strange part of it is
that the former has shifted to the one
man or 7cZaf prinClpIe ana tne latter
has shifted from the one-man principle
to the committee theory. The Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, whose foot ball
interests have been under the charge
of DR.. George Brooke now for some
two years. is purposing a departmental
system with such men as DIR. Carl Will
liams. Byron Dickson. DIR. Wharton
and Chairman Sinkler. also probably
other former Pennsylvania stars.
Princeton has abandoned the commit :
tee system, which was operative last
year under knowlton Ames. and has
obtained Rush of the University
School. Cleveland. as arbter of Prince
toms foot ball fortunes. Rush was
the righthand man of Principal Peters
at the University School of Cleveland
and will be terribly missed out there.
He played foot ball at Grinnell, but
was a star track man at Princeton,
yard dash there of 9 40 seconds His
advisers will be Howard Henry Knox
Taylor Bill Edwards. Roper and Eber-
stadt.
In u memorial book on the presenta
tion of the New Haven Colony His
torical Society building by Henry f
English in honor of his father. Gov
James E. English. there is to be found
this quotation from the old Indian re-
ply to the offer to educate the Indian
youth:
Several of our young people were
provinces; they were instructed in all
your sciences. but when they came back
to us they were bad runners, ignorant
OF every means of living in the woods
unable to bear cold Or hunger. knew
neither how to build a cabin, take a
deer nor kill an enemy, spoke our Ian
euage imperfectly and We're. therefore
neither fit for hunters. warriors nor
counselors. They were totally good
for nothing"
When war is far off civilization is
prone to forget that men ought to be
good runners or walkers, that they
, should know ,omething of the art OF
taking care of themselves without the
aid of servants. that times may come
when they should be able to bear cold
fatigue and hunger. When a nation
finds that It's defense of hearth and
home is only possible If an alien enemy
will permit them to have a year or two
in which to teach their youth and man.
hood these things. they find at the same
time that the enemy VIII not wait
Copyright, 1915. Otis =. Wood,