Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-31
SAVING PLAN WILL
HAVE GREAT EFFECT ON SPORT

speed w the army types OF this
sort
There has been no more universal
and popular game IN the army than
swat tag Last fan | saw a regi
Wcnt play II before football crowd
OF twenty odd thousand and the fun
~ the players was so contagious that
the crowd got more real amusement
and enjoyment out OF this informal
and impromptu game than out OF
tho football itself
Mass athletics IL tho. term which
is used 10 cover all this recreation
work In the army. the kind of work
that organizations such Rs the Y.
Nj G, A have been promoting for
many years throughout the country
IN big way and without any hlus-
ter OF advertising To-day the Y. NJ.
G. A has found "a big field for this
sort Of work and II is meeting It.
as II always has without seeking
glory iu the act II is "A service II
is rendering the mon OF the army
quietly and with efficiency, as Il IN
doing cuch part ~ it's big task.
Harvard and Yale Return.
Recent statements from New ITa-
ven and Cambridge lead one TO be-
lieve that tho contemplated reforms
which were to come in intercoucgi-
ate athletics nt these two institu-
uons ns result Of this war are all
but gone II not forgotten Just as
this column has so nften predicted
would be the case. Here is sample
~ the views now In vogue taken
from "A recent issue Uf the Harvard
Alumni Bulletin":
"lntcrcoilcgiute contests are now
20 be resumed before the world Is
at peace again The coaching sys-
tenn, at least for spring athletics. is
not materially modified and It re
muins 10 hc seen whether the pro-
posed restrictions viii bring about
all that glmplflcatlun I'm an over
elaborate scheme ut things which
has been s6 much dcslred We hear
thy hop0 u viii. but unless con-
siderable vigilance is exercised We
suspect II viii not. and that before
one knows II We shall have drltcd
back INTO all the old ways should
any sign ~ such J tendency appear
iu the months 10 come, Il is much 10
wv I'l'''h 'Nl.NN Ni'lNiI flillfAF nav
systcm NJ intercollegiate contests
may be devised before any peace ,
time football season comes around |
Tho plan ~ combined intrnmural |
md intercollegiate rames suggested I
already in tho Bulletin might then |
be considered
So goes the world AZ vale nnd |
Princeton SO FAR ug sport is con- F.
rcrned, and 30 It Will continue 10 go .
ono Thing sport college. ciyll ori
army, needs stimulus nuI collcep |
sport will not thrive without inter
collegiate" competition any more
more than will other sports without
w hat some choose On cali the h.pro.
iromlug feature And from what
other source will the money como
which No must have f1r conducting
sport Even IN the army boxing f.
almost "a necessity Tor the infantry I
gets its stimulus from numerous /
bouts among the men from various .
organizations aud from the faCt that /
he Instructors are usually pugIlsts |
'r former pueilists whose names /
nd rcpIiatioqs h"l pto push it|
l|oug
French nuy TootbaIl-.
"BilI' clark prtuurtuu.s efficient I
'osglau coach of long standing who
vent abroad In y ST. q. A. physical /
work nst full wrote from France
hat when hc was in Lone 70 recently
'e slept tNrouEh a bombing raid one
'irhi though bombs were dropped /
'n eithcr.~l OF the hotel he was iu
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