Evening star., 1923-03-05

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Joie has gone on record as t'
Ritola the beating of his life in pay1
the Knights of Columbus games la:
representative stepped the three-n
the Chicago taxi driver by less than
is divided as to whether he Will be
The distance Wednesday night is
200 yards longer than the three miles.
4 great deal as regards the outcome
depends upon which does the pacing.
If Willie Ritola can induce Ray to be
pacemaker, as was the case at Inc n
of c. games, then his chances or We
tory will he vastly greater than II
he shows the way.
Negotiations of the distance by the
two men. the strategy they employ
and their tactics a various stages
will be well worth watching.
The fact that the United States Golf
Association is far from satisfied with
the rate at which clubs of the country
have been aligning themselves with
the parent body will appeal to those
who have studied the situation as a
perfectly logical state of mind. Last
wear saw an increase in membership
of fifty-nine clubs. bringing the total
number of clubs affiliated with the
association up to 5S4.
Some 500 members of the L. >. q. A
in a country that contains seEeral
thousand golf clubs is not par
ticularty good showing, albeit most
of the important clubs are enrolled
And yet. as showing the Zest display
ed by those clubs that have entered,
the writer submits the fact that
majority of them are not in on a full
active voting membership.
1t costs a club $40 Il year for
voting membership and $50 less
year for memhership which carries
no voting rights. Clubs that spend
thousands of dollars on greens. club
houses and various luxurieS seem to
find the proud privilege of taking
constructive part in the conduct OF
the United States Golf Association
too costly at $50 per annum. Rather
amusing. is it not?
Some feel that the L. s. G. A. it
self is at fault. that it has made moth
ing more than perfunctory enort
to enlist clubs beyond the Mississippi
and in the south. If this be true,
then the present movement on the
part of the association will probably
he attended by excellent results.
Meantime he il noted that the west
ern golf association increased its
membership nearly 80 per cent last
year, recruits coming mainly from
tho south. and that at present TINS
body has an enrolment of 353 CLUBS.
Sotre Dame will open a summer
school for foot ball coaches under the
direction Of Knute Rockne on Au-
gust 1 next, the course to last three
weeks sThus the inner working OF
what is regarded As one of the most
efficient foot ball schools in the coun-
try will become the property of
coaches, players. physical directors
and the like who enroll at the South
Bend institution.
Time will come. says a veteran ten
MI al hp IE-aC
hid for such great national Journeys
as the mems singles. the Davis cup
matches. the national doubles and so
on. The simple processes by which the
West Side Club intends to nance its
West Side Tennis Club intends to
finance it's proposed stadium and the
support the projet has received from
the United States Tennis Association
may prove inspiring to Pittsburgh,
Chicago and SO forth.
1t seems rather apparent that the
claim made by many people that Pa
cific coast athletes as type are the
best in the country. is in quite some
degree we'll founded. Those who max e
this claim produce evidence that is
difficult of refutation tending to sup
port the declaration that the Pacific
coast athlete generally has greater
powers of endurance as a type.
When such persons point to foot
ball and track contests of recent
years when eastern and western ath-
letes have contended for honors in
these sports, it is difficult for the
alumni of eastern colleges to combat
the claim. Had the former carried
1T on to rowing. the case would have
been even more conclusive, for that
coast crew last summer gave the
Navy boat load the fight of it's life
in the mad rush for the finish line.
Which brings one logically to the
question: How then is it that the
" ashinston State crew authorities
are quoted as saying they favor the
shorter distance than four miles at
Poughkeepsie? There must be some
further explanation of the phenome-
non.
Results of three years of devotion
10 policy of sports for all at the
University of Pennsylvania and the
opening Of the three new river fields
on the Schuylkill river appear in the
report recently issued. which shows
that outside the squad trying for the
university and freshman teams, the
number of men playing basket ball
mas more than doubled. and in base
ball it has trebled. More than that,
the over-plus of men who were drop
ped from the foot ball squad amount
ing to some sixty men, were kent to-
eether playing throughout the season.
But the most marked was in the
case of the crews. Eighteen crews
were kept together on the river
throughout the whole rowing season.
In swimming 631 kept in this branch
and the number had to be limited at
mat point. Track and field have gone
up to 523, the limit of accommoda-
tions.
copyright. 1921