Evening star., 1915-06-27
LOCAL PLAYERS DOING WELL
IN THE BLUE RIDGE LEAGUE
Former Stars of Amateur Circuits Making
Good at Hagerstown and Martinsburg,
Masonic Game Deserves PATRONAGE

| neton. Baltimore if il takes part in
the series. ought to he the favorite.
Harvard has won from Yale in three
| of four major sports this year. The
! decisive victory of the Dark Blue crew
over the Crimson Friday was the first
since the spring of 1918 Harvard took
/ the foot ball game by hjs margin.
| " on the series in base hall and cap
| tured the track and field meet The
! track and field meet. though. was won
/ only fter protest filed against Yale
| shuI-putter had been sustained hV the
| Yai. authorities Several points went
| to. Harvard because of the disqua lifi
cation ahd gave it the big end Of the
! score Had Yale taken the track
| games. might have been the case
| under the circumstances. the two in
| stitutious would have broken even III
! the ma Jor sports. each getting two vic
! ttories--Harvard the honors in foot ha II
and base bah and Yale in track and
crew.
The present amateur league sea son
is expected TO prove more successful
than tnat of 1914 The attendance at
thc games Is larger and the general
play seems to he somewhat improved.
There appears to he no question about
there heing a greater number Of play :
ers ia King part in the sport, notwith-
standing that tennis has taken many
away. The leagues seem to be fairly
| weather tho season without much
| trouble. In truth there have heen less
complaints of poor finances this year
than ever before. and il must he that
he various circuits are sustaining
themselves without great deal Of
trouble.
The opinion that a systematic at
tempt to develop the youth of the
country is an outgroWth of the la st
c
and in the minds of many people. but
such is far from the case The history
of physical education. through intelli-
gent direction of sports and systematic
exercises, dates back before the Chris
tion era. Notwithstanding the rugged
ma nhood of that day brought about
by almost unending struggle for ex-
iStence. if was thought necessary to
improve the health and build stronger
men by doing just what is now being
done in the colleges Y, NJ c. A or
| ganizations. Fairgrounds and other
public recreation centers--training the
body to grow by prescribing certain
conditions and kinds of sport. Scion
describes to Anacharsis in the dialogue
of Lucien the character and purposes
of physical training among the Greeks
| in this way:
| We strip them of their clothing. we
| consider that the first step is to ac-
custom them to the air, TO render their
| bodies Injured to each season. After
! this. we devise various kinds of gym
nastlc exercises and place directors
| over each. We teach one to box and
another the pancration contest. In
| this way their bodies are hardened to
| suffering and by constant toll become
more robust. Furthermore. they pre-
| sent no superfluous fat and white spots.
no lack of flesh accompa MED by pale
ness, like the bodies of women Our
| young men are tinged dusky red by
| the sun, are masculine, have much
| spirit, show great zeal and manly
| courage and furthermore enjoy such
| excellent health. They are not coarse,
| though tanned. nor are they above
| weight. but are circumscribed with
| symmetry.
We train our young men to run Also,
we accustom them to endurance in a
| long race and encourage them TO ma ke
| a short distance in the quickest pos
| sible time. The course is not formed
upon firm ground that will resist but
| in deep sand. where it is easy neither
to step with f1rmnesS nor lean forward.
and where the foot is burdened with
| the yielding path. In addition TO this
| we exercise them in leaping bitches. II
, thought necessary, or any other inn
pediments, even with their hands filled
with leaden weights"
| Since that time there has never been
| an age in which each community in
| every part of the world has not had IT'S
various methods Of training the body
1
| form of sports has varied from the
| tournament of the middle ages. in
| which knights often lost their lives in
desperate attempts to win the favor of
some fair lady. to the folk dances of
the kindergarten girl of the present;
| but all have been for the same purpose
the building of a stronger race.
! The Analostan Boat Club Will be more
| strongly represented in the peoples re-
| gatta, to be held at Philadelphia next
week than ever in It's history Coach
| Hecoxs boys will take part in four
events. the local orga niZation having
sent in entries for the eight-oared in
! termediate, eight -oared Junior. eight
| cared senior and four-oared senior
| races The Potomac Club has so far
sent in only one entry, that being in
/ the intermediate doubles.
| Coach Hecox of Analostan saws his
men are in fine shape and that they will
I do we'll in their races. Hecox, though
| he is seldom inclined to predict much
| that is favorable to his crews, evidences
stronger hopes for victory than in anv
previous year. which means quite a
! little.
| peculiar play arose in the Railroad
y NJ. c. A. League last week Carroll
of the Shops team hit a short fy to
Callow, who was playing first base for
| Car Department.. Callow muffed the
| ball, but Proudfoot, who was pla win z
second, had run over to back up, and
as the muffed bail was falling to the
ground he stuck out his glove and
caught 1t for the put-out