The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
WINTER
SPORTS
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CE.HOBBS
Telephone 1881

This column Friday stressed the
value OF outdoor sports for all and
along that line suggested an athletic
club and a municipal golf course Tor
Topeka We emph--sized several
times recently the value of athletic
training beyond that field of sport
where the athlete is declared a hero,
and mentioned intramural athletics
in a number of the colleges over the
country as an Indication that the time
is ripe fer that form OF training IN
our colleges We mentioned Kansas
State Agricultural college. in Manhat-
tan. and Washburn college, in Topeka,
as two schools in the state which are
working toward that end
X s A. c. intramuraI athletics has
been declared almost as popular il
Manhattan as the big intercollegiate
events Of the year. when colleges and
universities clash in friendly combat
on the football fields and the basket
ball courts
washburn college does not have in
tramural athletics, but class tourna-
. ments, and organizations tournaments
in basl1etb- II tend along that line and
, are the beginning of what may develop
into intrs-muraI athletics w believe
the time is coming at the Topeka
school when such events will be the
custom ra her than the occasional
sport
Other schools constantly are being
brought TO our attention where not
only football holds forth, but many
other athletics activities are being in
dUlged in by the students
The latest institution that has come
to our notice is Ohio state, in Column
bus. a member of-the Big Ten" con-
ference. Many persons probably have
the idea that the building of the 10000
capacity athletic stadium, the largest
stadium in America. that only football
is among the sports at Ohio state
That Is not the case The same reports
OF large stadiums and bowls at other
Institutions might make it seem that
all the big universities were speclallz-
ing in football.
The horseshoe stadium at Ohio
State is the center of the schools attn
letic program, that is true. but it IS
used only as a place to take care OF
the gigantic crowds that gather in the
capital of Ohio to see the annual FOOT
ball clashes every fall
Sporting Life, ma gazine published
in Philadelphia, has this to say about
athletics in general and about Ohio
state in particular:
The slogan today is athletics that
viii interest the many instead Of the
few who have great proficiency in
their particular line of sport.
The horseshoe stadium which will
seat close to 20, 900 wa built to take
care OF the big spectacles. the varsity
However. varsity footbIn and the
big stadium is just one of the many
athletic activities at Ohio state Ihe
others appeal TO those VINO deSlre eN-
ercise for pleasure, health and eff
cheney. rather than glory that goes TO
q college hero
A program has been mapped out by
tho university which calls for the uli-
- il
"a intra-muraI diamonds, eight foot
ball fields and scores of horseshoe
, pitching courts.
1t was CHIEFLY for this feature of
college life that 90 acres were set apart
for the recreational unit around the
stadium which would take care of
every phase of that feature of college
life.
I'm thus centering the athletic ac-.
tivities it will be possible to eliminate
many of the ball fields. tennis courts
and other branches of play that are
now scattered over the campus
Not only Will this add interest in
athletics. but will give the opportunity
TO further beautfying the campus.
NO university in the country pays
more attention to intra-mural ath-
letics than Ohio State. However. with
the new conditions, it Will far surpass
all others.
Thus intra-mural athletics has be
come one of tho real form of ath-
letfcs at colleges all over the country.
The Capitalization of the fields of
sport as much as possible. Will add in
terest to it. Why wouldn't intra-mural
athletics be a good thing for Wash
burn college. Topeka's greatest educa-
tional institution?
Sporting Life remarks that 'Ap-
parentIy they don't even know how to
spell eligibility out west" saying
that Johnny Wight, owned by the New
York Yankees and playing on the
. Chattanooga infield 1.-THE past season.
is playing football with Tulsa univer-
sity. in Tulsa. Okla 1t says further
that he las in the lineup against the
Texas Aggies and twice received for
ward passes and ran to a touchdown,
one OF them being an S0-yard run.
For the benefit of Sporting Life We
might say that even if We don't know
4 ,ow to spell Isuspension-" The Tulsa
university was expelled from the Ok
lahOma intercollegiate athletic con-
ference by vote of to at meet
ing held Friday of this week.
That is the way these schools should
be treated. which violate rules we be-
and. - the rule is wrong, get rid of
the rule. but as iorg as there is rule,
why not observe it2
Open House at Y. VI. c. \.
A feature of the Y. NJ. c. A. open
house on New Years day will be a
match between a picked team from
the Salina y. NJ. c. A. and the local
organization. The five leading bowl