Evening star., 1919-12-04

School Is Handicapped in
Development of Athletics,
Says One of Its Students.
BY II. &. BYRD,

ties for its athletics. Especially 40
the Manual Trainers urgently feel
the necessity for a gymnasium. even
If il is so situatcd that il cannot have
good athletic field c.osr by. Tech
Hical, with about & thousand boys.
does not have as good facilities rs
Western, which probably does not
have more than 800 boys enrolled, if
that many. And to compare " hat any
OF the other high schools has in con-
nection with athletics to what Central
has is like making A comparison o: a
sand lot grdiron with the Yale bowl.
This mornin" Il Technica! High
student. one due to graduate in June.
a member OF the foot ball team last
fall. walked INTO the sport depart
ment of The Star and voiced few
things about Tech and what il should
have and the consideration il should
be given in "Write-upS' in the papers.
In the first place. he did not like the
comment in this column following the
Tcch-Ccntral foot ball game, ana did
not hesitate to say SO: and n" molly
set forth Techs cause in this way:
Il know you are Il Central gradu-
ate"--which, by the way. was mis-
takc-"and are naturally inclined TO
boost Central considerably when it
accomplished anything; but ] do not
believe that you gave US as much
consideration in your Write-up of the
CcntralTech game as you should.
even tfOuSn we lOSt. SNtH'eIt It:hS ti'N''
/ don't think that anybody appreci-
ataS the work our coach. Mr.. Apple.
las done and is doing. simply because
the people have never been told what
he is doing and the disadvantages he
labors under.
I'm the first place. compare our
facilities with CentralS for practic-
ing foot ball. Central steps through
the doors of tho fine dressing rooms
in its big building out on as good
gridiron as there is in the south
Tech, Oh the contrary, is compelled TO
leave school every afternoon a4c
journey way down to the tidal basin
before putting on 4 suit. and then
-fourths of the time we have
had to dress in cold rooms. Ihls IN
itself is a great drawback to the de-
velopment of the team, as we lost
lot of good material because the fell
lows could not afford to give the
time required. We seldom if ever got
home before s o'clock. just because
our place of practice was inaccessible
to the school We had to spend four
hours every day to get in two hours
of actual practice. the routine we
had to go through. without consider
alton for anything else, in order to
practice required 4 lot of patience
and nerve.
And take the other sports. Cen
tral has special coach for swim
ming and fine pool: Central has a
special coach for track, basket ball
md a good gymnasium; Central has
special coach for track and All indoor
hundred yards straightaway as good
IS the biggest universities possess.
Mr.. Apple of Tech is competed 70
handle all sports in which the high
school is represented. foot ball,
basket ball. swimming, base ball,
track and Tech does not have pool,
does not have a gymnasium and does
not have track. We practice basket
BALL wherever We can md the use OF
, court, and the same holds good for
swimming in regard TO a pool and for
base ball and a diamond. At Central
Mr.. Metzler coaches foot ball, basket
vail and base ball. the seasons OF
which do not overlap and do not IN
terfere with one another. MT. Bruh-
ner coaches. swimming and Mr. Foiey
coaches track sports. AT Tech Mr..
Apple coaches all these sports, and
besides that handles five physlcai
training classes every day.
II think when you take these'things
into consideration you should give US
more credit for what we have oeen
doing in athletics And ] think 1t is
up TO you to write a story about this
and let the public know just how
much we need better facilities. ana
how much we are handicapped In our
athletic competition, especially when
we are III CClhpSti'ioi 49,
AS well equipped as Central Is"
Well. there's the story, Just as told
by the Tech student, and IT is dollar
against what is left of pint of milk
after the cream is skinned off that
everybody will agree with the Maroon
and Gray boy who had the stuff in
him to stand up for his school. And
furthermore it should not do any
harm if every member of the school !
board reads what he had to say about
the situation.
In connection with the above. it
light be well to say also that some
girl student at Tech is willing to fight
for her school. She did not sign her
name to the letter she sent the writer,
but she managed to tell in no unccr-
tain terms just what she thought of /
anybody who would give so much
credit to Central for winning high
school championship and not give as
much credit as she thought should be
given to Tech. even though it did lose
in that final game.
All of which makes US take off our
hat to two of Techs. students, liter
ally, as we'll as fguratively.
IF Strubing. the Princeton quarter
back, is not given the position or the
an-American eleven this year by
Walter Camp there are going to be Il /
great many hlSdpfoilted tfIitSSlolt
alumni and students. Tiger followers
believe that Strubing stands out by
far the best quarterback in the east, |
and it would take a great deal of ar
eunent to convince them that any
other player surpassed him. And
Tiger supporters are backed in their
opinion by great many officials and
several newspaper writers. BOP Max
well is one of the newspaper men who ,
has picked sSgrubing as the best quar-
terback in the east.