The Washington herald., 1917-12-28
ATHLETICS TO
HELP In WAR
Graduate Managers and
Athletic Research Society
Favor Uniting Sports.

New York, Dec. 27.-Meetings of
the Gaduate Managers Associa-
tion and the Athletic Research So
ciety tonight furnished an indica-
tion Of the general tendency to be
shown tomorrow at the annual con-
clave OF the national collegiate
Athletic Association-one OF the
most important conferences of its
kind in the history of college
sports.
Practically everything done and
every word spoken at tonight's
gatherings applied to the question
of how athletics can be made to
serve the country best in this time
OF war.
The executive committee of the
n. c. A. A. also got together and.
besides attending to utine matters
formulated a. policy for today
which will practically exclude
everything but points in the
nations welfare from occupying
the time of the delegates.
Chief among the decisions ar
rived at during the discussions of
the athletic research men was that
personal contact" games-those
which accentuate a fighting spirit
and develop a fighting instinct
should be favored at every possi-
BILE turn over other styles OF COM
petition.
This takes in football, basket
ball. wrestling and boxing, more
particularly than baseball. track
athletics and other similar sports.
II a student is able to participate e
n only one branch of physical ac-
tivity. it should - in one of the
exciting personal contact" .divis-
ions as a general rule. other sports
icing indulged In only where a
man has time for more than one
sport.
IntTS mural competitions instead
or the intercollegiate variety Will
be played up mofe than ever, SO
that each individual student-Sn
are eligible for a call to the colors
can get some preparatory train
ing. One of the novel features was
a recommendation from DIR. w. A.
Sargent of Harvard that the tu6-of-
war receive more attention in the
future.
To encourage the ALA round ply
sical development Of undergI adu-
ates. it was voted to adopt 4 STAN
dard table of points based on the
metric system. which would be
adaptable to universal use. Credit
for points will range all the way
from no performance at all up to
1000 points for a performance con-
siderably better than present
world records For instance, in
the high jump the limits will be 7
feet for 1000 points and half an
inch for one point.
The graduate managers meeting
was an informal one at which many
matters of interest and moment were
discussed Ideas were swapped as to
the best method Of collecting and
handling the government tax on pub
lie games. How to induce more stu
dents TO take active part in athletics
srd how to Increase interest in COM
petltlve sports among the recruits in
the various cantonments.
Gustavus Towne Kirby's suggestion
for holding the intercollegiate track
and field championships next spring.
moving the date two weeks forward
to the middle of May, was discussed
at length. and a majority of the nine
teen present pledge their support to
80 NJ htnuElCk, Oh
Pennsylvania, who technically was
not entitled to attend the meetins.
was present by invitation and spoke
strongly for this idea. Kendrick
pointed out that Cornell, Swarthmore
and several other leading institutions
would close their college terms earlier
than usual and that in order to have
them enter teams 1t would be neces-
SQTV IN n narIxy lot
participation of Cornell would act as
an aid in influencing Harvard. Yale
and Princeton toward abandoning
their apathy to the games 1t was
states on good authority, and might
even prove the deciding factor.
Kendrick lined UP votes for the early
date plan at the annual meeting Of the
intercollegiate A. A. A. A. in Febru-
ary, when the question of games or no
games must be decided.
Attending the graduate managers
meeting were Harry A. Fisher, of
Columbia; Alonzo A. Stagg, of Chi
cago: Maj. NJ. G. Pickering. of Penn:
Fred W. More. of Harvard. Robert
Murray. of Princeton: Erwin Kent, of
Cornell; Mai. II. a. Pender. of Ports
mouth; ". L. Jones. of Colgate; P. G..
Bartelme. Of Michigan; p. j. Flaherty,
of Holy Cross: DIR. Fred MarsteI, of
Brown; William Raftery, OF Washing
ton and Lee: Stansbury, of West Vir-
ginia; Ray Smith. of Syracuse; Curley
Byrd. Of Maryland State; Palmer, of
Swarthmore: Miller, of Pittsburgh;
Eyman, OF Carnegie; Tech A. D..
Smith. of Penn State.
The National Collegiate Associations
meeting will begin at 10 o'clock tomor-
row morning at the Hotel Astor when
Col Palmer Pierce. president of the
organization. and also president of the
War College. will strike the keynote
by stating the governments attitude
toward college athletics. including, 1t
Is expected. President Wilson's own