The Washington times., 1918-12-26

Out West little attention is paid to
baseball in proportion to the support
given football. field and track sports
and basketball. Interclass baseball is
doomed beyond bounds. but the var
sity schedules are cut down to ten
games
In the East the tendency appears to
be to shorten the schedules and to
cut down the expensive baseball trips.
the ascendency and there is a strong
movement to give much more atten-
ton TO inter-mural baseball rather
than the varsity sport
VIII Cut Expenses.
According to the avowed intention OF
the solons who will gather for the
National Collegiate Association meet
ing in New Yrk Friday. there seems
every intention to pare down expenses
ing in New York Friday. there seems
Last year in this city the college
men declared that many OF the ex-
penses, such as those Of high sal
aried coaches, long spring training
trips during Faster for baseball
teams. rowing maintenance and spe-
ciaI privileges would be abolished
after The war. College sports are to
be doomed for the mass rather than
the selected group of individuals. and
It is presumed that the experiment
viii be tried with rowing and base
ball this spring.
Favored Cutting Sport
At a recent meeting OF faculty ath-
Ietic advisers OF the Washington high
schools IT was ascertained that sew
eraI OF the representatives favored
cutting down the baseball schedules
To but few outside OF the champion
ship series OF ten games. With moro
attention paid to the freshman sched-
ules and inter-class series more boys
could be Interested in the sport
II u pointed out that baseball re-
culres less coaching than any other
sport. In college as well as high
school baseball the battery appears 10
be the strong link in an otherwise
weak chain Any college or school
team with a first-class pitcher and
catcher is almost sure to come through
and IL is pointed out that fewer boyS
are interested in baseball than in any
other sport. as far as representing
the institution Is concerned.
There appears little incentive to
bring out baseball candidates after the
team IL finally selected. In football
and basketball several teams can be
kept in action during the entire sea-
son. In baseball once the cut is made |
In candidates few care TO stick for |
further trial.
Have Many Candidates.
Field and track sports keep many |
in action not only during
the winter hut late in the spring. The |
exercise properly supervised is OF con-
siderably more value TO the individual.
although the work is not nearly AS
attractive as baseball
Attention paid to interciass base
ball and freshman schedules for
schools and colleges seems to be the
< eynote OF all Of the deliberations OF
he various athletic bodies to the ex-
,Iusion and eurtailment OF the varsity
baseball program.
There will be more baseball than
sVeF before. but less competition be-
ween colleges. according tn those re-
iabIy informed, In the West, Jesse
Harper, athletic director at NOtrs
Dame, worked out a comprehensive
system several years ago
Had ThIrty-sns Teams,
Harper instituted a system Of inter,
baseball games CIass
cams. societies, and ether organiza-
ions got in action, and Harper de-
:iared he had thirty-one teams in ac-
len during the spring. There was
ample opportunity TO give every one
/ chance to play, and many PheAenae-