The Washington herald., 1922-02-05
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contests In the amphitheatre
(NOSE b quarter Of q million persons
attended the four football classics Of ths
Aest held during ths last few weeks. Tbs
annual gridfron eontes6 between Harvard
Princeton, Yale-Prtnceton, Yale-Harvard
and Army Navy are pretty much considered
the premier contests Of the great colless
sport along the Atlantic seaboard. Every
year they attract Thousands. This Year il
would appear all previous attendance records
had been broken judging from the reports
OF packed stadiums and thousands turned
away for lack Of seating facilities. The same
Foes for every other football center in the
country. In the Middle West, in the South,
all along the Pacific Coast, in every hamlet
and town throughout the country, from the
smallest high school game up to the big
State university annual, football has enjoyed
one OF the greatest years in all its history.
How strongly intrenched in public favor
h the national sport, the game Of baseball,
WIS demonstrated during the World Series
Last month when the Giants and the Yankees
played to q record breaking crowd In New
YORK. Close to q quarter Of a million people
paid approximately 81 ,o00, 900 to watch the
two mines engage in the series Of eight games.
In the games closing out the seasons Of the
National and American Leagues, when the
Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates and the
Yankees and the Cleveland Indians were
dxhttng for the championship flags, record
hreakinx crowds filed the grandstands and
ths psvilions- Baseball never enjoyed
more popular reign Daylight saving, pro-
noting twilight games, brought Thousands
3, he playing field who formerly had been
onfy Newspaper fans" many Of them sctu-
Any b play md sin many more to witness
Dc xmal-town diamond tournaments.
INTEREST IN the game Of golf grows with
i s1ery passing day. Experts are predicting
a. ttns when every town Of 5000 inhabi-
tzrS, sn s,sry section Of these United States
vdn have q ro'f course Of It's own to accom-.
-,odrts thst vast army Of athletica1y inclined
vHo would ery 'fore" and who follow
throsxh' With the sweeping drive. Never
had eolf 70 many devotsss. The national
shampionshtps, the exhibition matches all up
md DOWN ths country, the appearance OF
Cscu Isttrh, the famous English French
Csnsdisn CHAMPION, and other stars, have
sttrscesd immense galleries. Nor are people
ecntent merely with watching the stars;
many thousand must swing their own clubs
and negotiate their own hazards. Baseball.
long monarch Of American sports, L. in
danger Of losing its crown to this fasci-
natinr game imported from Scotland; q sport
long catalogued as recreation for the idle
rteA alone, but now recognized a. the uni
yerxsl sport, At for men and women Of all
sxss, classes and conditions; ideal in that
h b Les strenuous than many other lines of
MORT and altogether wholesome with its
.nt5oor enyfronment. In q few years more
watch golf.
T.L. t.nnis, too. Was ever so much in
,.r..t manifest IN the national champion
.htn. NJ WIS exhibited this year when
n.rtsr vielders Of the racquet from all cor
n.r. of the globe Wed for honors? Was there
.v.r q time when 20 many Americans OF
vo,,th and middle age cavorted before the
,.t. IN grass or clay courts And how about
,h. International polo games. or the college
s.n ana track relay races, or the various
.sn,t,e carnivsls Of the summer with their
-immtnr and boating championships? Was
there ever q year in the history OF the
r1,,t.d States of America when athletics held
s,,h.- favor or were more universally par
1900 IN BY persons Of all shades and dis
.,Il.I.,, al sizes, shapes and dimensions,
s,t,ssut discrimination as to age, color, sex
or nreyious condition Of servitude?
By all the shades Of the classic Greeks
and their famous games or the ancient
Romans and their magnificent amphitheatres,
was there ever anything to surpass the
spectacle of the Yale bowl filed to overflow
ing with the exulting humanity Of Novem-