Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-18
PLENTY Of Time
G|vENFORS SPORT.
Class Schedules in Colleges
Being Arranged to Allow
for Team Practice.
By Il. q. BYRD.


as general ideal to which all col
leges should conform, now being
worked out by the War Department
plenty Of time will be given to ath-
letic teams to practice. The mini
mum proposed is an hour and q half
per day, and 1t seems to be certain
that two hours will be given, from
1 o'clock until 6. This practically
disposes Of the idea at one time prev
alent that the men in the colleges
would. not be given sufficient time
to prepare for intercollegiate games.
From o'clock until 6 is tho period
most colleges in past years have de-
voted to recreation for the student
bodies at large and for practice for
athletic teams. OF course, this will
do away with the specialized train
ing periods q great many colleges
have had, especially in foot ball. 1t
has been customary IN most instio
o'clock. and sometimes as early as
2:3O. In order for tho squads to do
that it was necessary for men to De
excused from one or two afternoon
classes.
This now order Of things will have
tions and on strictly technical col
leges and universities. Very few
Of the state colleges ever have had
more than two hours practice each
day, and a great many have not had
moro than an hour and half. For
instance, at Maryland State. Penn
State and Cornell classes continued
until 4:30 in the afternoon, and
sometimes until o'clock. In the
late fall the class schedules ran so
h
quarters Of an hour Of daylight re-
manned. The fact that such has been
the case in the past will make the
new order of things almost the same
as in former years. for those col
leges.
Up at Easton. Pa, last Monday DR..
McCracken. president of Lafayette
College and regional director Of the
Students Army Training Corps. told
the writer that it never has been
the intention to arrange the schedule
Of duties in any way other than that
which would permit athletics"
Practically no veterans are report
ing for preliminary foot ball practice
at the various institutions. Out in
the middle west, where many Of the
big universities started work this
week, squads of not more than twenty
men. have reported. In many of them
only half dozen or so have shown up.
This means that nearly all institu-
tions will be shy on veteran material
and that they will have to depend al
most solely on untried men.
Contrary to the general idea.
though, concerning the numbers OF
students that will be present in the
colleges this fall, 1t is certain that
practically every institution is likely
to be filed to its capacity. Many have
simply been swamped with appltca-
terday stated that between fourteen
and fifteen thousand had applied for
entrance to a certain middle western
Institution. It seems certain that by
the first Of next week nearly all COL
leges will be compelled to turn away
students. as many are doing now.
Yesterday the Rex Athletic Club
was trounced by the Army Medical
School in game in the District Base
Ball Associations series for the Dis
trict championship. The Army play
ers cleaned up for Manager Wright's
aggregation by to 1, scoring three
runs In tho second inning and two
in the third. They held a good lead
throughout without much trouble.
Featuring the game was the gen.
eral work Of Roche, who held down
second base Tor ReX. he got three
hits out of four times at bat and in
the field handled eight out of nine
chances. Welters played good ball at
third for the Army Medicos and
Parks led the soldiers in batting. Carl
pitched clever ball for the winners.
1t was the first victory for the Army
Medical School since the series
started.
Marines and War Risk are tied for
the lead in section 1, with each
teams record standing at five games
won and one lost. The schedule has
been completed and the teams will
play of the tie the latter part Of this
week.
Navy Yard and Operations, first and
second in section Q standing, are
scheduled to play today the game
that may decide tho championship in
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