The sun., 1919-01-05
RUBEN LOOKS FOR
BOOM IN ATHLETICS
A. A. Z. Official Announces
Dates and Places for
Title Meets.
URGES NATIONAL CONTROL
Physical Education Should Be
Under Government
Supervision.
URGES NATIONAL CONTROL
nv FREDERICK w. RUBEN.


and swimming. is due for q big boom
feel confident that these sports will
.e practised more during the coming
season than ever before The new I'm
ue,us chiefly Is due to the great benefit
derived by nearly 100000 young men
5uring eighteen months In the training
amps here and overseas. Young men
Who considered these sports too siren
Gus are now shouting their praises.
they will not lose interest In their new
:ound pastimes.
Athletic clubs throughout the coun-
IN are making elaborate plans for par
,clpation in athletics during 1919. March
will be the banner month in indoor ath-
etics. The Boston A. A. will hold Its
annual indoor games on March 10: the
national indoor championships will be
staged In New York on March S: the
Mllrose A. A. games in New York on
March IL the Meadowbrook Club games
IN Philadelphia on March Is, and the
Western Conference championships In
Chicago on March 90.
The Irish American A. c. OF New
York. which suspended athletic activi-
ties when the United States entered the
war. has announced II will resume where
Il left of and promote athletics moro
extensively than ever Large clubs OF
other cities also are preparing busy
programme for the new year.
International Competitions.
There is talk OF olympic games and
0. International competitions in amateur
boxing, wrestling and swimming. The
list OF national and local competitions
, ,isSad ysa proposed exceeds that 0fSpFs-
When the Amateur Athletic Union of
United States was organized thirty
years ago it Incorporated in its con-
sdtution as one OF its objects:
THE promotion OF national. state and
local legislation in the interest of the
Institution Of public Fairgrounds. gym
rasis, baths and fields for amateur
sports In the United States
Many public baths. gymnasiums and
athetc fields have been built, but every
important city in the United States can
rot boast OF first class athletic grounds,
containing a quarter mile track. enclos-
Ing field suitable for football and
baseball games and providing accom-
'nodations for tennis. basketball and
other field games Every city should
be able to point with pride to SUCH a
field, where its youth could participate
In health giving athletic sports.
Every one admits that the splendid
physical condition, clean body, clear
mind and initiative OF our men in the
world war was largely due to American
athletics. No more practical and fitting
memorial to the boys who made the
supreme sacrifice can be suggested to all
municipal authorities than to dedicate
such n held in memory OF the local
heroes
For TIE FIRST time in the history of
the Amateur Athletic Union its list OF
rauona! championship awards practi-
cally IS complete for the entire year
There were two or more applications
FOR every event awarded The accom-
nanying list Of awards shows the great
interest being taken in all sections o.
TIE country In these sports:
National Cha m pionship Awards.
Junior and senior outdoor track and
heid. all around and five relay races
probably in Philadelphia.
Observation-Disclosures Association.
New York
Ten mile run and seven mile walk
Brooklyn Athletic Association. Brook
!yn. New York, in October.
Junior indoor track and field thirteen
events-lSth Regiment A. y. Brooklyn,
New York. Feb. 10.
'tH'OE llluOOT tIdSk ana UeI0, tniy-
tedn eyents--Under auspices National
Championship Committee. In 18th Regi-
hent Arnory, Brooklyn, New York,
March g
Junior and senior cross-country races
--vader auspices National Champion
sh'p Committee at Van Cortlandt Pars.
New York. In November.
Basket ball--Los Angeles Athletic
C,uo, Los Angeles Cal.
B5xing-Eight classes, Boston Ath-
h,c Association. Boston. Mass.
Gymnastics-Los Angeles Athletic
Club. Los Angeles. Cal.
Wrestl.ng-Eight classes, Brming-
ham Athletic Club, Birmingham. Ala.
Handbail singles and doubles-Los
Angeles Athletic Club. 1t is very likely
Ae Los Angeles A. c. will relinquish one
OF these two championships TO the De-
r5!t Athletic Club.
Swimming.
Se"rr indoor-Fifty yards and 200
yards breast stroke. Chicago Athletic
Association; 100 yards, Pittsburg Ath-
ie'e Association, Feb, 81; 220 yards
an 100 yards back stroke. Detroit Ath-
!eac Club, March 20; 500 yards and
Nater polo, Metropolitan Association.
New York: fancy diving from spring
.oaFl and 400 yards relay (four man
~am'), Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago;
Elns" for distance. Pittsburg Aquatic
'lLb March 26.
Js'i'r Indoor-I00 yards, Idora
swimming Club, San Francisco 500
var, Pittsburg a. A. 100 yards back
SFoHr Metropolitan Association. New
!''| 100 yards breast stroke. Pacific
asso a'ior, San Francisco; fancy div
ing ':,m springboard, Multnomsh A. c.,
cortland, ore.
Senior Outdoor-lOO yards straight
S"Al md 40 yards. Lincoln Park Boat
'.uh. 'aioaso $50 yards. United Labor
.-faE4. Fittsburg. September /; one
nile, MIltnomah 4. c., Portland, Ore.
.,'hg distance. Riverton Yacht Club.
M'rTton. y. j.. In Delaware River; high
York '''"
junior Outdoor-44o yards, Buckeye
lake Yacht Club. Columbus. Ohio: one
ns"'e' Metropolitan Association New
Chicago.
,, senior Indoor for Women---5o yards.
raw &c Association, San Francisco; 100
.sIas' Philadelphia Turngemeinde EGO
i%I''' ldora Swimming Club, San
.IaHc!s'o 500 yards. women's SWIM
mig Association OF New York; $50
tarus back stroke. Allegheny Mountain
association. Pittsburg: 200 yards breast
..uoHe. Athletic Club Of Columbus, Ohio
,.sncy diving from sprIngboard. Los
sl'se.es A. c.: plunge for distance, Net
'To"thn Association. New York.
Junior Indoor for Women--lO0 yards,
tIneauopolitan Association, New York
w. Yards and 100 yards back stroke.
nno's Athletic Club. Chicago; 100