The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-30
TRACK MEN OF
YALES ALUMNI
TO FORM TEAM
May Be Foreruraner of
NetU Kind of Com
petition.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.
Copyright, 1922, by The Argus

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
Every scientific and conscientious
trainer of college athletics is seek
ing just now to impress upon those
of their charges about to graduate
the necessity of keeping up some of
the activity of the life they led in
college. For example, it is obvious
that rowing man is likely to have
trouble after graduation if he set
ties down to business or to profess
sion taking no more exercise than
is required to reach his Office in the
morning and get home in the after
noon. His heart and other organs
/ have been geared to strenuous effort
for four years. Unless he enters
upon the career of a truck driver
or steyedore. he is taking great
chances of physical disaster if he
neglects regular exercise So with
football men, track men and other
athletes.
This being so, announcement
from Yale today that a track team
of graduates will be organized this
spring is. highly significant This
team will enter in college class
meets and hold games with such
alumni teams as may be formed
elsewhere Charles Taft. the for
mer football player, basketball
champion and track star, is named
as the leader of the movement.
Taft hopes it will spread to other
colleges and eventually attain such
growth as will see alumni teams
representing various colleges in
other branches of sports. Why not?
In the early COS graduate college
football players comprised, for the
most part, membership of powerful
elevens such as the Chicago Ath-
letic club, Duquesne Athletic club
of Pittsburgh, Orange, n. j., Ath-
letic club, the Crescent Athletic
club of Brooklyn and other organ
izations. These clubs were promin-
ent in football and were able to
hold their own with a majority of
! college outfits.
There is plenty of alumni mater
ial for teams at all college centers
and in cities such as New York,
Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta. Phila-
delphia, Chicago and elsewhere ath-
letc alumni of various colleges and
universities exist in sumbers suffi-
cient to form all sorts of teams
Training need not be too rigid. An
afternoon a week is plenty of time
for practice so long as the princi-
pie of sport for the sake OF sport
be the guiding impulse.
The executive committee of the
United States Golf association is
now scratching its collective head
over problems presented by the
present eligible list for the anna
teur tournament which will be held
at Brookine, Mass, next September
Just now the list is a bullying af-
fair, containing some three hundred
teams. OF course this number of
players will not appear at Brook
line, but it is felt that action should
be taken to cut this down consider
ably. A pairing down, say to $50, is
Indicated
When a man attains to years be-
tween SIS and SO and begins to think
he is pretty old he will be able to
revive something of lost youth
through membership in the new
baby division of the United Seniors
Golf association just organized.
Technically this division will be
known as class "E" and will include
golfers between the ages set forth
in the foregoing. Glass ID" will
range from so to "a; class &c" from
65 to SO; class "B" from 40 to "A;
and class "a" from IS upward.
ST. Louis. Mo.-WiIliam DiIhoef