The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-05

piling and publishing rules to govern intercollegiate boxing, wrestling, fenc- 1 ing, gymnastics and tennis, same to | contain on first inside page half-tone portraits of the said rule makers.
 Ih these days of print paper scar city and sport for all agitation, 1t seems a pity that a committee should be at work trying to waste paper and injure the cause of sport for, all. We call it's attention to the fact that good and sufficient volumes on these same sports compiled by various and eff cient athletic bodies are already in eX- istence and that the sportsmen play ing the various aforesaid games are well satisfied with the codes as writ
 To be sure the creating of new rules might improve various sports. Again it might not. It seems to us most reasonable to suppose, that, let us say, the U. s. N. L. T. A. has now q perfectly satisfactory rule book on tennis for both college and amateur players. In fact the intercollegiate tennis associations of the East and West get along fairly well with these rules. And college players also find them satisfactory after they graduate. or are forcibly elected from their hallowed halls of learning. They are not compelled to play under other rules than they learned at college. But the National Collegiate A. As committee on these various sports may ask just that, else what is it dr1v- ing for? It cannot be that they want their pictures on the first inside page, high-browed as they are? Perish the thought.
 Sport is best promoted by standard izing rules. There have been times i'll the past when even the college boys could not agree on one code for a college game like football. Way
 back in the sos Yale and Princeton played the gridiron game under diff l ferent rules than Harvard and Penn sylvania, but it is still doubtful if they shed any mora blood, Bill Edwards to the contrary notwithstanding Basket ball has gone through much the same process. But the tendency to stand ardize the rules of sport has had the right of way.
 It would seem that the committee
 of the N. c. A. A. is contemplating a backward step. While certain rules and regulations might be changed to
 advantage in some games, presu1nab- fly boxing, Americans must first be
 shown, as they are Missourians at the
 center. At that the late Marquis of
 Queensbury laid down some very good
 and satisfactory rules for the manly
 art of seIf-defense. The army ana
 navy - prohibitionists each - have
 found them mighty satisfactory,
 knock and all.
 This being so, why should not Spike Eli and Kid Harvard find the code a mighty satisfactory one for holding
 an annual knock-outs tournament in
 the Yale Bowl and Harvard Stadium before the plaudits of the multitude If Yale and Harvard are so strong on !, preparedness that athletics must be laid aside for things military, then
 why not championship boxing bouts ; every now and then between the two It would be a decided preparedness : move and would do muca ts put more :, pep in the undergraduates of the na- ! tion. Winners of such bouts would
 be sure to worry Fritz greatly in the = trenches.
 The army is into boxing with a will
 Nearly everybody is doing it and bouts . are the thing of the day. Indeed, SC great is the need for boxing gloves
 that they would prove a most welcome ? gift to any soldier. Using them fill! C in spare moments, provides rare spor
 and fits Sammy to handle Fritz in the , big bout lover there"
 ' Copyright, 1918, by Sol Metzger,