Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-13
ONLY TWO SPORTS
NOW PLANNED FOR
Colleges Paying Attention
Only to Base Ball and
Quint Schedules.
BY n. C. BYRD.

Base bail and basket ball are the
only sports for which the colleges in
the south Atlantic section have made
definite preparation for the remainder
of this year. Tennis, track and field
athletics and lacrosse are not getting
much attention from those that man
age athletics in the colleges. 1t looks
as if the basket ball season is going
to be as good as usual apd the base
ball schedules about the same, but
according to present outlook it is
doubtful if much of an attempt will
be made to develop the minor sports
on q very broad basis; lack of men
and money stands in the way
Most interest right now in the col
1eges centers in whether track and
field athletics will be put back on the
old plane before the end of the current
school year. About the only outdoor
intercollegiate meet usually held IS
that which has taken place under the
auspices of the South Atlantic Inter
collegiate Athletic Association. Mary :
land State has for several years foS-
tered a closed set of collegiate events
for Maryland and District of Column
bia institutions. and college men have
been privileged to enter the South
Atlantic 4. 4. l. competitions. Bar
ring those meets, though, track and
field sports have been more or less
dead except for the few dual affairs
that have taken place.
= meeting Of representatives of the
South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic
Association probably will take place
the latter part of this month. at which
full plans for the year will either
be worked out or the usual program
cancelled. 1t is very doubtful If Mary
land State will hold its meet and in
all probability the South Atlantic
Amateur Athletic Union events VIII
not be very prominent, if held. I'm
less the s. A. I. A. A gets busy and
puts on its set of championships,
about the only opportunity colleges
will get to compete in track and field
work will be at the University of
Pennsylvania relay games and in the
two or three dual meets that may be
arranged.
The program for indoor track and
field sports seems 10 be conspicuous
by its absence. In plsce of three meets
usually held in Washington and Bal
timore il now looks as if only one,
and possibly none. is to take Place
Camp Humphreys basket ball team
comes up here tomorrow night to
meet the Georgetown FIVE. The con-
test will be played in the Blue and
Gray gymnasium and begins at
o'clock. Georgetown ought not to
have much difficulty getting the long
end of the score.
Two contests are booked tomorrow
In the school series. Technical and
Business get together in the contest
which may give one or the other
winning lead in the race for the cham
pionship. The Manual Trainers and
Stenographers are tied now for the
lead, each having won three games
and lost none. Eastern and Central
play in the other game tomorrow in
the scholastic schedule.
University of Pennsylvania has
big squad at work on the rowing ma
chimes. The Quakers expect to be in
good enough physical shape to take
the water for real work just as soon
as the weather permits them to get
out in the shells.
Columbia University has had a rule
passed by it's board of trustees that
makes it obligatory for every stu
dent who enters there to pay fee of
SIS per year, S. per term. for the
support of student activities. includ-
Of the former fee of $40 that institu-
tion charged for athletics.
Columbia'S action is one to which the
board of trustees of George Washing
ton University might well give seri-
Gus consideration. Or it probably
would be better for the university if
the board of trustees were to pass
such a rule and leave the considera-
ton of it to the results it would ac-
complish. If somebody would put the
HatcheIites back on their feet ath-
1etically, and the faculty place the
management of athletics in compe-
tent hands, George Washington would
stand out among the strongest insti-
buttons in the south on the athletic
field.