The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-28
SPORT GOSSIP
BY o. B. keller.

Atlanta, March GA massed attack
on what Bob Cubbon calls physical
illiteracy" has been made at the
Georgia School of Technology here.
and for the first time since the home
Of the famed Golden Tornado started
business, the student body as q whole
plunged into competitive sports-up to
it's ears.
Mr. Cubbon, athletic director OF the
Army Y. NJ. G. A. in the southeast,
had assigned Dave" Warfield to Tech
as athletic director for the "Y," in the
effort to introduce a program of
mass athletics. This week Mr.. Cub
bon himself went out there and he and
Dave proceeded to put on a push ball
contest, with six companies, aggre-
eating about 500 students in the
push.
The boys had tried the tug of-war
and it went great-but its success was
nothing to the furore created by the
push ball venture.
The regular Tech baseball squad
was rehearing on another part Of the
field. with quite a number Of specta-
tors blu tthe push ball had not been
in action ten minutes before the whole
works-players and spectators-were
I
gle. Push ball is not like anything
else in the world. except push ball. 1t
is played between large groups Of men
with a leather ball six feet in diameter.
They are supposed to push the ball
toward their opponents goal-but the
ball stays on the ground compare
lively small percentage OF the time.
Almost with the first rush. the huge
globe rose upward like a gigantic
soap-bubble and was seen tossing
stretched hands.
The struggle surged about Grant
Field. leaving wake OF watches.
articles Of clothing. The students were
too busily occupied with the battle to
bother about such minor considera-
lions. as when the whistle announced
that the game was over, for that mat
ter the competitive spirit having seiz-
ed upon them nightly
I'VE only get an hour a week at
Tech now" said Mr.. Cubon. but we
are counting on more time, as the
schedule is arranged. ]. Hume Nc
Donald, the famous ~ boxing instruc
tor. is coming over from the Univer-
sity Of Georgia next week and the boys
are crazy to take his stuff
y. Hume teaches some stuff too.
by all accounts. He is a soldier OF
fortune. who fought in the Boer war
end some blood affairs in Zululand. pr
somewhere. He teaches bayonet or
mass boxing, and he has made a ire
mendous hit at the University Of Geor-
gia. where he is putting on early next
week the first general boxing tourna-
ment ever held in a southern college.
The Y programs are taking hold in
a number of the larger southern col
legs and universities. Bob Cubbon is
firmly convinced that the way to COM
bat physical illiteracy.' or unfitness, is
in the school and colleges. by estsb-
fishing mass athletics. which include
all the students, instead of training
a select squad for intercollegiate
games and meets. The new system
will encourage intercollegiate compe-
tition. by spreading the interest in
athletics. and by developing material
for the first string squade and teams
that otherwise would be undiscovered.
Competitors In the annual track meet
between Tech and Georgia, to be held
early in May. now is being developed
at both schools by the mass system
with Georgia having acquired rather
long lead through adopting the pro-
gram on a comprehensive scale earl
Ter.