Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-15


If Georgetown takes up boxing next
Fall. only North Carolina State Col
lece and University of Maryland. OF
those engaging in Al the major sports
connections in this section. will he
left without teams.
Suggest ions have been offered to
Maryland from many sources to take
mp boxing hut always the same re
Spouse has been civen-that boxing
was considered a poor sport for in
tercolleciAte competition. Just how
long MARYLAND will hold to that view
Is rot known. but right now its opin-
ion is that it can Get along very wei
without devoting its time 10 teaching
some Of its students tho best ways
and means of Knocking sideways the
noses and faces nf students at neigh
boring universities.
II is true, though. that schools
where boxing has been taken up as
a branch of intercollegiate competition
have had considerable success. It
seems that no kicks have been regis
tered against the bouts from any quar-
ter and that everybody enjoys the
matches. even the participants. II -
a sport that costs little to carry on.
gloves being cheap and uniforms neg
ligihle. OF course, the Introduction OF
boxing has caused a nationwide or
ganiZation seeking To promote student
health to try to find ways and means
Of preventing or remedNin@ cauil
flower ears; but what are few caull-
flower ears if every one has good
time?
Incidentally. this matter Of the col
leges generally taking up boxing as an
intercollegiate sport is another demon
stration of how Well the colleges know
how not to he consistent. At one
moment they cry ont against profess
sfonal foot hall and yell sond and
long against the dark deeds of profess
snnal promoters who may make in
roads on the college sports. Profess
snnal foot ball may profeSSionallZe
college foot hall and introduce to it
many evil things of which the college
game now is innocent. is the fear: vet
on the other hand. colleges themselves
take M boxing. Justify pro"lalmlng IN
ts virtues. after in many places laws
have hnen made Ia regulate it and
in some places to abolish il because
Of lis brutality and other undesirable
features.
Colleges. il is trHe. are trying, by
making the rounds only tWo-thirds as
long A the professional rounds. by
eliminating. AS far as possible. cheer
ing. to get rid of objectionable fea-
lures: but anybody who has sat at 4
rincSide and seen one beaten and
battered and bloody human staggering
and almost helpless and thousa nds of
other humans yelling in frenzy for the
apnarent victor to further batter the
already Vanquished into insensibilitN
will not have much sympathy with
boxing as a college sport.
Certainly there will not be much
sympathy with a Cry from the colleges
Il -Fx,.,~ 80, e foot
ball may do to the college gridiron
paStime.
The Georgetown board track was
the scene of much action yesterday
morning. with the OReilly crowd
preparing for their last indoor meet
of the season. as we'll as Ray Dodge,
the Olympic half-miler, Jimmy Con
molly. Ceorgetown's great miller. and
Charley IIoff the Morse marvel,
working out The entire Washington
delegation leaves for New York At
$50 this Afternoon to compete in the
Knights of Columbus games.
Walter GeGan. the versati lie Blue
and GRAY cross country captain, de-
cided to he 2 uuarter-miler and won
a place on the relay team. beating
out Frank Mccain. Gegan will run
with AsCher Swinhurne and Bur
CESS, ana they are expected 10 DfeHk
the world mark for ] 500 meters to-
morrow night. The time Is 3:24 40.
made by Holy Cross. All that Is
required is an average puarter-,nile
of 81 seconds. All three of the older
members are capable of lettering
that by at least a second. The 500
meter race is - yards short of
mile.
Dodge is TO run a special half:mile
against Pinky Sober and George
Marster and Johnny Holden, former
Georgetown aces Plansiy goes W
to compete in q special dash, while
Ray Hass. the Blue and Gray cap
tain. just getting back in his old
stride, will run his first hurdle race
since winning the intercollegiate
championship.
FmerSton Norton will. Of course.
compete in the sevcn-eVent all-around
competition test against the elongated
Norwegian. and Harold Osborn. OlNm-
mic decathlon champion.