Evening star., 1926-04-30

The answer. of course. maybe touno
in the ever.increa sing popularity OF
Athe professional game. Most college
men are so situated that they can at
tend hig league games, or games
splayed by strong minor league organl-
cations. and very largely the desire TO
see base ball played as well as 1t can
he PLAYED prevails over the normal
interest of a college alumnus in teams
representing his college.
Again, Spring practice in foot ball
has been in progress in the West and
interest in the doinGs of the foot ball
trs has worked to the injury of base
ball.
They say that certain scenario writ
ers are tearing their hair and grind
ng their teeth in an effort to devise
some suitable vehicle for the screen
appeara rance of Mile. LenClen.
Her type is somewhat new to film
romance Graceful as p swan. the
French girl. however. lacks in certain
ether respects those qualities that SO
often in the movie world atone for
lack Of histrionc ability.
Opinions as to feminine beauty diff
fer very radically. None the less, there
are probably few who would he will
ing to place Suzanne in gallery
adorned by portraits Of the outstand-
beauties of the cinema.
Strenuous athletic competition tends
to harden the lines of a woman'S face.
and the beautiful Young girl who de-
velopS proficiency in game such as
tennis should realize that the price
of attaining greatness is very liza BILE
to he the sacrifice of good looks.
Practice rows Of the Wisconsin
varsity eight on Lake Mendoza have
suggested the fear to Badger row
ing experts that the crew will not
, he up to the mark set by the fine
outfits of 1924 and 1928.
Because of one of the longest
Winters in wears the Madison oars
men have only recently been able
70 get on the waters: to complicate
matters, most of the material is
green.
Dad Vail is famous for whipping
inexperienced men into shape. but
he succeeds in landing this years
sight among the leaders at PoG-h-
<eepsie-as he may dot will he
me of the most signal achievements
le has performed.
Harvard has the feeling that the
tide of affairs in snorts is due to
-hange for the hetter. Things that
have happened in the course Of the
Winter and Spring are regarded.
very Justly as strawS showing which
way the wind is turning.
First, the Harvard debating team
won over Yale and Princeton. ordi-
narily. that is To say n tho regime
OF Percy HauGh.o1 - CAMBRIDGE.
this would not have caused ripple.
Lon Il
! In this victory any!h'r'. other than
"a portent.
Then. the fenc;n.r -. m won sec
ond place in the intercnlIo~iate fenc-.
Ing championship. ThNre were many
colleges in this competition. AL of
which take fencing more seriously
Than Harvard Harvard. so to speak.
Fences with her left hand Anyway
|her team landed second place.
Then Tibbetts. the great Crimson
distance runner. won tho intcrcol-
I1egiate CroSS-countr%. Tho haS'(ei
hall team heat Dartmouth and Yale:
heating Yale ~ basket bah was not
much more of an exploit than beat
ing Yale at foot hall in the days OF
Mahan. Rrickley, Hardwick and the.
rest. but the defeat of the Green
was not small achievement.
The track team won the intercol-
leciate indoor meet for the first time
in history and won a triangular meei
inst Cornell and Dartmouth
Tine hockey team beat all the best
INTERCOLLEGIATE outfits in the East and
won a clear title to the sectional
cham mpionship.
or course. every Harvard man is
looking toward the foot ball season
success in which. for some reason
mr. nthpr N9rinllSlV wine
out the sting of defeats in all other
sports, or to make success in those
sports appear cheap by comparison
with gridron triumphs.