The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-01-13

cipate in lean sport is Inherent in
the America npeople."
Football as played by the hun
dreds of college teams throughout the
country brings out these qualities in
a manner equalled in few other
other sports. The game even to the
novice spectator is full of thrills and
with the rapidly increasing technical
knowledge possessed by the thou
sands who watch the play | am Ger
tain that football will continue to in
rea in popularity for years to come
The fact that huge stadiums erected
but a few seasons are now unable to
accommodate all those who desire 10
witness the games is the best evil
dence of the increase in interest.
This enthusiasm, which also eX-
tends to many other sports and games
should be used as a lever to improve
the physical welfare of the country at
large. A more sane and proper un
derstanding of the physical develop
ment of the younger generation-the
boys and girls from 10 to Is years
OF age-would prove a tremendous
boom to the nation. Properly deve-
loped they will not only desire out
door sport but will partake in it with
greater satisfaction and less risk"
Trap Shooting
A fifty percent increase in the popu-
larity of trap shooting and a record
entry of more than 1900 contestants
in the Grand American Handicap at
Atlantic City next September, is the
prediction of Secretary-Manager Nc
Linn, OF the American Trapshooting
Association for the 1922 season.
"Trapshooting is one of the few
sports permitting a man to partici-
pate under organization recording SO
that the result of every shot is credit
ed" said Secretary McLinn. "As a
result the sport is growing in a manner
which surprises even the veterans of
the game. Our application lists,
sanction requests and other Office
data clearly indicate that 1922 is 60
ing to be the biggest year by far that
we have eve had.
Part of the popularity of the sport
is due to the aftermath of the war.
Thousands of young men learned to
handle a gun and the fascination of
shooting while in service and ninety
percent are eager to continue shoot
ing either as a competitive sport or
recreation. We now have one of the
most complete sport governing and
recording organizations in the world.
With this system constantly improv-
ing, the inclusion of the amateurs
bodies and the knowledge that target
shooting can be INDUCED in almost
the year round, l believe | ain safe
in saying that the followers Of this
sport will double during the next year
or two
Track and Field Athletics
The coming year is expected to be
one of great activity in college track
and field athletics and sport of all
classes, according to Gustavus T. Kir-
by, president of the American Olym.
pic Committee, at the Antwerp inter,
national meet. Mr.. Kirby states:
college athletics received a splen'
did impetus during the past year due
in part to the visit of the Oxford
Cambridge Universities track team
last summer and the resultant inter
national intercollegiate meets at Bos'
ton and New York. Golf, tennis,
small yacht racing and other forms OF
amateur sport also figured in similar
international contests.
1.-THE 1922 schedule is still in the
making but already the University OF
Pennsylvania has announced that il
will send a relay team to London fol-
competition against the English Uni
yersities. "A combined OXford-Cam
bridge lacrosse team will tour this
country next summer and British
yachtsmen will race for an interna
tional trophy in Lond Island. These
are, to my mind, but the forerunners
of other and bigger events, in keeping
with the spread of sport.
Last year was one of most re
markable popularity in all forms Of
athletic competition but | believe
that the neXt few seasons will wit
ness a sport expansion far more i'm
pressive; perhaps not as spectacular
but certainly sane. l believe ideals
will in general be higher; l believe
there will be more honesty in ANA
teur sport and for that matter more
honesty in professional sport. | be
lieve there will be more appreciation
of the fact that while amateurism il
good, honesty is better; that there il
no disgrace to be an honest profess
ional.
81 believe the popularity of spor
is both permanent n progressive
and due to cumulative causes. For a
least 25 years a number of us haV'
been preaching at every opportunit.
the doctrine of good health and happi
ness through sport and | honestly he
lieve that this continued preaching
this sowing of the seeds of exercise
recreation, play, athletic competition
etc, has brought forth the harvest O
last year and will continue to brini
; forth similar splendid harvests il
years TO come.
Literal hundreds of thousands o
boys have had athletics instilled int
| their very makeups by such organiza
lions as the Public Schools Athlete
Leagues in the various cities, tn
Playground and Recreation Associa
T ton OF America, the Community Sci
vice, Inc, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. M
/ II. A. A., and other similar religion
organizations. More than half a mi
lion young men in u colleges an
/ universities in which athletic comp6
t titiOn and physical welfare is an es
p sential part of the curriculum, an