New Britain herald., 1917-04-07
COLLEGE SPORTS CEASE FOR WAR
Graduate Managers Take Decisive <, Action at New York Meeting

n Intercollegiate sports on track and hf1e diamond will cease for the year. tfnd perhaps for the remainder of Nfne war. This vas announced at the
 heeting of the graduate managers of
 tyhletics ill the larger universities of nc East held at the Hotel Martini a0e yesterday. Charles Halstcad Mapes. chairman pf the board of stewards of the In
 ercollegiate Rowing association, for
 Eally declared off the Poughkeepsie fegatta. and announcements of the cancellation of athletic. schedules at he various colleges throughout the country have been made.
 Eight Colleges Represented.
 Major Maylin J. Pickering, of
 Pennsylvania; George H., Murray, of :; Princeton: George F. Kent, of Cor.
 tell; Harry A. Fischer of Columbia; eS. D. Corbin. of Yale: r. w. Moore,
 h Harvard; Harry Hillman, of Dart vpcuth and George Smith, of Syra-
 use, were present at the meeting.
 It was agreed, that the response to he call Of preparedness by the under graduates. and particularly the. ath- F tnly course open was to declare off Intercollegiate competition.
 For the present Yale, Harvard. Princeton. Cornell and Columbia have 0luspended all intercollegiate compe-
 ition. The Yale crew will meet the
 Sennsylvania eight on the Schuykill
 his afternoon. and the baseball team
 VIII meet the University of North
 ,arolina, at Chapel Hill, N. c. These
 Yill be the final appearances of Blue AkAms in open competition until more Aeaceful times return.
 al Pennsylvania, which has been in
 hvor of retaining sport, will follow
 he example of the others. There can fc no other course, indeed, for with 1ll her rivals disbanding- their teams f3re Red and Blue would be out in t1he cold.
 Sl The University of Wisconsin has dlecided to abandon sports. and the University of North Dakota will do Likewise. The withdrawal of these teams will affect the conferences of tE5hich they are members. Wisconsin ttas always been prominent in the af- faairs of the Big Nine,' while North VDakota is one of the leaders in the eet further West
 MaJOr Plcker1ng, Of the University 1f Pennsylvania, was in favor of re- dafning sports. He cited the example of the service academies of the United tktates at West Point and Annapolis tF announcing that they would play alut their schedules.
 Wood Sends Letter
 5 Major General Leonard Wood, in
 letter to Major Pickering, advised hat the young men remain at their .lClleges and take full advantage of he opportunity to receive military 1faiufng. General Wood volunteered
 10 suggestion on athletics. however. T Charles Halstead Mapes deplored whc necessity of cancelling the Pough- tteepsie regatta, but he maintained ahat in the time of great national ttrisis there was no other course. sa sHThere may be some difference of Qpini0n about the advisability of con- 1fnuing college sports temporarily as fbnx as they do not interfere with The volunteering and training of col oeRe men," he said, but there cannot aLe any difference of opinion about Che propriety of calling off great aurmal regatta like Poughkeepsie. nonsidered by many of the leading
 porting event of America"
 The result of this action of the col 4eges may be- farreaching. The clas- tic Pennsylvania relay carnival will +,robably be cancelled in a few days. hrd the intercollegiate championships ,yill fall in the general wreck. There ,ras a grave doubt expressed yester- ,,ay as to whether the big football x.sr,o O.. xvould be played next fall.