Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-06
SCHOOLS TO PLAY
AGAIN TOMORROW
Basket Ball Series Reopens
With Central VS.. Western
and Eastern vs.. Western.
BY II. C. BYRD.

BY n. C. BYRD.
Eastern meets Business and West
ern plays Central tomorrow in the
high school basket ball series. Prob
ably the contest between Eastern and
Business will take place in the gym
nasium at Business and the Central
Western struggle at the Y. NJ. e. A.
Both are scheduled to begin about the
same time, $3.50 o'clock
Eastern probably will be stronger
against the Stenographers than in any
of the previous contests they have
played this season. With Thomas
and Fridinger back in uniform the
team surely will put up much bet
ter article of play. Business is fight
ing with Technical for the lead in the
scholastic series and it may run into
quite a snag in confronting the Light
Blue and White.
western teams always are hard for
Central to beat and basket ball is not
different from foot ball. AS Bryan
Morse, Westerns coach said just a
short time past. Central always looks
askance at Western and that factor
alone sometimes enables us to put up
hard game against a stronger team
that represents the Mt Pleasant
school"
Columbia University will have row
ing next spring, but has not yet APP
pointed a coach to take the place of
Jim Rice, who held the job for about
decade. Fred Plaisted. who has
been assistant to Jim Rice for the last
five years. may get the job.
Georgetown has scheduled two
games of basket ball with New York
University one to take place here
and the other at New York
Howard Berry is back at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania after getting
out of the Army. Berry says that
he will not again take part in ath-
letics at the Quaker institution. but
in all probability change of heart
or mind, is in store for him. Incl
dentally, Berry must have been pref
ty popular in Camp Hancock, as four
of the members of the eleven there.
which Berry played on, are to enter
Penn in the immediate future
Daniel in the New York Sun. quotes
Walter Camp in an excerpt from an
article by him in Golfers Weekly
as evidence that there. is not likely
to be much of a change in the way
of financing sports within the next
few years. Mr.. Camp is reported as
saying:
Foot ball in the colleges has had
to move with the greatest economy.
and the lessons learned in war times
should not be forgotten. Agreement
for disarmament along the line of ex-
penses will perhaps be the most effec-
tive method. but even this will give
rise to heartburning and jealousy and
misunderstanding, all of which must
be anticipated if We are to get per-
manent good out of the situation.
One other thing necessary to bear in
mind is that our athletic plants must
be either abandoned or supported.
Tennis fields, base ball diamonds,
lighthouses, foot bail fields-none of
these will keep themselves in shape
for use Some of the work might be
done by students. Along that line
there are possibilities, but some plan
ming and organization will be re-
qulred. theoretically one man might
get his exerclSn by pitching on the
nine and the oth.. man by moving
and rolling the dia>oGl hut there is
some question as to WIN : going to
make the man who mows AMI rolls
ting diamond feel satisfied to tal.s that
part of the job.
Again. there are undoubtedly men
in every college who would be willing
to pay for their own athletic uni
forms, but am inclined to think that
the number of men who came out for
the spo>t would be lessened rather
than increased on such a bass The
same is true of boats, oars expenses
of allowance. etc. Altogether, the or
binary upkeep of an athletic plant,
without any extravaganza, to prevent
it from deteri6rating, to say nothing
nf al
able Now. upkeep can be financed
either by subscriptions or by gate re-
ceipts. If it is financed by gate re-
ce1ptS 1t is necessary to make use of
bowls or stadiums or stands. In other
words. these are financially the pow
er plant of the whole proposition. aud
the public has proved that it is quite
of upkeep by paying for tickets. Prac-
ticaily none of our greatest war
charities would have been possible
without aids of this kind
In the foregoing quotation ii seems
that the pith of the whole question of
financing Intercollegiate sports. as
discussed at the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, is somewhat ig-
nored. 1t was held there that tue
very question of gate receipts was
responsible for many of the evils OF
way to do away with gate receipts
and attendant evils was to have the
colleges take over the financing of
athletics.
This way of solving the problem
seems to be ignored, and probably
not without reason, Sach athletic
establishments as ale maintained at
Yale and Harvard probably cost
$4,000 per annum. and for the au
thorities of either Yale or Harvard
to consider taking over all these eX-
penses would mean an additional eX-
pense in running the institutions. for
which there might not be money avail
able That would result in debts or
the curtailing of expenses and sports
The authorities at Yale and Harvard
probably do not want debts. and
those directing athletics do not de-
sire to take the chance of having
their efforts curtailed. Consequently
the natural result is going to be
more or less of a continuance along
previous lines, as far as institutions
of that kind are concerned
Gallaudet is further advanced in its
basket t..ll practice than the other col
leges in this section. The Kendall
Greeners have not had to contend
with any of the disadvantages to
sports that have confronted other in