New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-11-26
EXPECT REVIVAL I'M
SPORTING WORL]
ALI Competitive Games w
Receive Stimulus After War

sional are preparing for an extensM
revival of competition during
coming year. Reports from all e
tions of the country are to the ell M
that authorities and organizations s@
already planning to re-enter the n@
of their particular activity and aid I'm
re-esta blishing sport upon be-
and broader basis than reached at az
time previous to the war. While III
yet too soon to more than outline M
possibilities, it can be said that ms
annual meetings of such bodies WIFI
were expected to be perfunctory N
omitted entirely, will now take
momentous interest in the reconstr @
ton period which is coming in spW
It can be stated authoritatively t@
major and minor baseball leagues v
resume business next Spring. IT.
not likely that the game will imd
diately reach the heights Is
which it had climbed when the worW
war first took toll of Americas M
popular sport. 1t is pointed out, he
ever, that baseball has established@
record in weathering the great
crisis of modern times with but II.
curtailing of the 1918 season by
month. Problems relative to h rs
railroad rates, loss of certain 81
players and maintenance of duplic@
parks in some cities must be solN
and this will be accomplished betwd
now and next April.
Many of the officers of the golf aXs
tennis associations are at present Il
service and it is impossible to sect
definite statements regarding the 1 g
championship tournament SentirsAss
among the players and followers &
these most popular of amateur spoN
is overwhelmingly in favor of =
toration or continuance of the til
Journeys next season. Those auth II
itises who discuss the situation as N
dividuals expressed the same serN
mentS and it appears to be a foregcN
conclusion that pre-War conditions "a
be restored at the annual meeting
scheduled January and February. q
In track and field athletics the An
teur Athletic Union championship
will be awarded at the annual meetM
in Philadelphia and in view of IS
fact that both the IntercollegiN
Amateur Athletic Association and III
intercollegiate Athletic ConfereHM
held their titulat games in 1918 it is M
lieved that the meets will be stagM
next May and June as usual. Cole
athletics are certain to be affected 81
a time by the regulations laid dol
for the conduct of the S. A. #. c., III
it we'll known fact that the arr
| and navy authorities are strongly
favor of athletics and will put no ~
ir-4<, -, I,
| ton.
Baseball and rowing, two ot1#
major sports at the colleges durN
the Spring, will also be revived
the S. A. T. C. rules continue in eff n
until the close of the June term "a
games and races will be conduce3
along the same lines which now 81
vail in football. College mines will
permitted to play nearby rivals III
dual regattas will be staged. If IN
restrictions are eased or entirely n
moved more ambitious schedules ~
| be arranged for the mines and there@
q possibility of q revival Of the Ea
ern rowing classics. Football may
expected to resume it's normal pleW
in college sports next Fall; as 10y TIL
time it is thought that the COLES
will have resumed their normal fun
tons.
In the realm of the motors, p1aA
are taking shape for the restoratia
of many sport competitions. RaciA
enthusiasts are looking forward to II
establishment of many new reco1A
on land, water and in the air throuA
the use of the Liberty Motor, whicha
~
petitive purposes, next Spring. TIL
Autom obile Association, Aero Club
America and the American Pow
Boat Association will all stage char
| pionship races in their reapectM
classes during 1919 as preliminary
the assumption of International CO..
tests for famous trophies. TrottirA
pacing and racing, which have CO
tinued throughout the duration OF fH
war will be developed upon a IargA
scale, according to the statements
those interested in these sports. T.
yacht clubs of the Atlantic Coast EN-
also polishing race trophies and brusM
ing the dust off nautical charts u
/ preparation for a revival of yachtiW
and a number of regattas and cruisM
abandoned during the past few yea
will be revived next Summer. The oil
Gals of the bicycle racing bodies n
tend to broaden the scope of compa
tition and the same holds true L
many minor sport governing bod
according to information cleaned
q hasty canvass of the country.
On every side there is convinciS
evidence that the war has and W.
prove a great stimulus to sport an
the coming year will be but a nationA
period of preparation for the greatS
era Of International competition
come. L