Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05


himself Princeton man
A-much better team than usual /
they will begin their season with a {
PLAYERS. they feel that the material
composed the five a year ago. An
Lemon, former Central High and Pri
ties look forward TO a very succeSStu
interpreted to mean that they eNpe,
that is something else entirely.
other schools. except Georgetown,
already have opened their schedules.
The Blue and Gray is due to see
sCtion for the first time next Monday
night when ii entertains Mount ST.
Nary'S on lis home floor Catholic
University and Gallaudet get back
Saturday night when they meet each
other at Brookland. Maryland does
not begin its post-holiday games until
next Tuesday. when the University of
Richmond is due To play at College
Park.
College base ball was the one sport
which, in three days of discussion of
college athletics in New York last
week did not come in for a single
kind word. 1t seems to be the general
opinion in the colleges that base ball
is not worth Worrying about. One
man in New York put ii this way:
OIl6St piSt Ddlt teams nave bt-
come little more than training
ground where big league scouts seek
promising material. We did not play
game last year in which we did not
have several of them hanging around.
l know of several college players who
We're cornered during the middle of
the season and paid money TO sign
contracts. In some instances these
men still are in college and are par
tiCipating in college athletics in viola
ton of the amateur law. | have no
objection TO college base ball player,
after graduation, going into profess
sional ball if he cares to do SO. You
think we worry lot too much
about professional foot ball. but we
know what the professional people
have done in college base ball and
if they start doing the same thing in
college foot ball it may sound the
death knell of the game"
One foot ball coach who recently
saw an ice hockey game for The first
time is authority for the statement
that that sport is the fastest in the
world and that for thrills it has every
other game backed off the boards. Not
only is ii fast. with exceedingly swift
changes every moment. but it is rough
and hard. Any contest that has great
possibilities of physical contact arouSeS
public interest but when is added
speed. courage and deNterity. then Il
game OF exceptional interest is found
Ice hockey seems 10 provide all these
requisites.
At Il meeting i'll Baltimore foot ball
coaches ana athletic directors of col
leges in Maryland agreed TO hold an
annual meeting just prior TO the foot
ball season to interpret the rules and
10 discuss other matters that might
advance The game in the State. No
formal body was Orga niZed yesterday.
but probably an organization will take
place next September.
One of the opinions advanced in
New York recently. by which it was
said that something of the So-calied
oVeremphasiS on foot ball might be
eliminated or reduced. was for the
college TO discontinue bidding for one
another's coaches. In other words. no
college ought. according to this opin-
ion, try to induce any man to leave
the college with which he might be
connected by offering a larger salary.
II is conceivable that such a STATE Of
affairs might be possible, but it
would certainly he indicative of a
Utopian condition which does not exist
in any other profession or in any
business.
II simply is common serse IL get
the hest man for position that can
he found for the money available.
That is almost automatic. and for
anybody to propose to handle it diff
ferently is, Ia say the least. not using
very sound judgment of values. The
colleges themselves. when an opening
occurs in d teaching department, i'm
medidtely begin to cast around To find
the best man il can for the money il
has to pay. And sometimes in order
10 obtain the services OF a certain
man raise the salary for the position
even higher than they originally in
tended
The opinion expressed in New York
if put into operation. would not only
cause the colleges TO handle their
coaching on different basis from
everything else. but would tend to
Stife ambition and initiative in men
tors and turn their jobs and profession
into kind of Sinecure, with medi
ocrity as a basis of its stability
Bob Zuppke. foot ball coach at IL
linois. is forever joshing Gilmour
Dobie of Cornell on the latters So
called pessimistic strain. Recently a
newspaper man asked Zuppke to give
lis opinion of the Cornell man, and
this was the response:
Gil Dobie is very exact man. Gil
Dobie is a very peSSimiStic man. He
i the kind of foot ball coach who
would like to take a squad, coach it
for 80 years for one big game and
then, the night before the big game,
die