Evening star., 1920-02-14
BOXING, AS STANDARD SPORT
IN COLLEGES, NOT ADVISABLE
Would Create Bad Blood Among Students, Ex-
perts Contend Philadelphia Ranks
High as Sporting Center.

! there racauets as nowhere else, an
| array of suburban golf courses, any
one of which is a pleasure to play
| one of the greatest track and field
| events of the country in the Penn
| relays. also the intercollegiate. the
Childs' cup race and the American
Henley. basket ball, which will surely
be one of the coming games in the
future. besides cricket and soccer
The surprising thing to one who sees
the great possibilities of making
Philadelphia wonderful sporting
center is that with all this there is
not a great stadium erected there
which should seat hundred thou
sand people and contain all the field
room for every kind of contest. Chi
cago is blazing the way for the mid
die west. and I expect to see Phila :
delphiA some day in possession OF
such structure.
EnEland's Olympic Material.
We shall know more later in the
spring as to the possibilities Of the
English athletes for the Olympic
games, but at present the most prom
ising seem to be G. NJ Butler. who
holds the present quarter-mile cham :
pionship of England. having record
of 4S4 4-3. but can go shade INSIDE
of that. There also is a sprinter who
won the 100 and zoo yard English
Hawly was accredited with shade
under even time in the hundred. There
is an A. q. Hill. who is pretty wei!
along as veteran. who has won
the four-mile in 1910, and holds the
half mile and mile championships
now.
oxford has a distance runner in
Montague, who in the eight-mile
cross-country showed wonderful
promise. as well as a Cantabridseian.
A. c. Teller. A. G. Hill. mentioned
above, did a mile last fall in minutes
II seconds. and any. one who can do
that is entitled to "a lot of considera
ton. Oxford and Cambridge have
made acknowledgment the 1nvi-
tation to send a team to the Penn
relays, and IL that acknowledgment
eliminates. as there is some hope that
it may, into an acceptance, we can
then get a direct line ON the pcssi oii-
ities OF these universities N furnish
Ing the backbone for England's Olym-
pic possibilities.
The Yale Rowing situation.
The rowing situation at New Haven
is somewhat complicated and as tar
as winter work is concerned capt.
Churchill Peters will have only him.
self to rely upon.
prof. Mather Abbott. formerly of the
Latin department of Vale and coach
of the crew, after not only o1etf1Dut
ing rowing broadly throughout the
university in spite of many discour-
aSements. and getting his crew even
tually and winning his big race. has
left and gone to Laurenceville as
headmaster. His crew did great
piece Of work. defeating more power
full opponents at New London last
summer 1t was really the hnish. that
is, the clean cut work of every man In
the boat that in q grueling race with
the two shells nearly locked all the
way, that enabled Abbott's crew to
hold out to the finish. when Harvard
under the pace, was cracking.
Prof. Abbott is an Englishman and
was master at Groton before he came
down to Yale. He was a rowing man
and has always taken great interest
in the sport. Every one believed after
the last season that Yale's rowing
policy was permanently established
and along the line of Princeton S.
where a member of the faculty, DR.
Duncan Spaeth. Is the crew coach. But
suddenly in the very hsydey Of sucs
Vile and the fat is in the hre again
Nothing was left logically. but to
send for Guy Nickalls. the Leander
man. who preceded Abbott, and who
pulled Yale out Of a hole with vic
tory at New London, when he took
charge before As both Abbott and
Nickalls are of the English school OF
coaches the continuity Of the stroke
can be maintained. Nickalls has &C
cepted and win be on hand early 10
the spring and Yale rests easy once
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