Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

~ way of organizing athletics
and stimulating spirit in his
capacity as athletic director at the
University of Wisconsin, defines his
duties and, incidentally, the duties of
all athletic directors. as follows:
First-IntercolleSia competition,
chiefly because it is a stimulous to
intramural sports.
Second-Intramural contests whose
design should be, not only the enlist,
ment of the greatest possible number
of students in healthful and eXhilarat-
ing exercise, but the development of
material for varsity teams.
Third-The incubation of a spirit
of good craftsmanship. which will be
indicated in defeat as in victory.
Fourth-To develop that state of
mind among the alumni wherein they
expect only a reasonable percentage
of victories, who will rejoice as nor
NAL grads should in victory. but will
support the teams of their alma ma
ter i'm defeat
And the greatest of these is the
fourth-that is, in the sense OF
achievement. Your average alumnus
does not incur all the expense incl
dental to travel to the seat of his
own or a rival university to see his
team beaten in a game which costs
him from So to 50 to watch. Quite
the contrary. He is willing. of course.
to lose once in a while. but where
he and George Little are likely to
find themselves at odds lies in the
precise Interpretation of "a reason
able percentage of victories.
Checking Game Officials.
How many intercollegiate athletic
officials pad their expense accounts?
The answer in all probability is, not
very many.
Infrequently you will hear an ath-
letic director of some university mar
yelling over the dining car appetite
of some arbiter OF foot ball. basket
bah or other athletic contest Moth
Ing more than that
Evidently. however, there has been
some suspicion out on the Pacific
Coast that some officials have had a
tendency to use their magma tions
IN compiling their expense accounts.
In order that they shall cease TO
strain their minds in this respect the
Pacific Coast Conference raised Off
Gals fees in the hope they will no
longer be tempted
1el eafter games on the slope will
run in different classes and fees will
range accordingly from $50 and SIS
to 800 for all officials Under the new
ruling no university may cancel a reg
ularly selected date of an official and
any refusal to accept an officiating
date without sufficient reason shall
bar an arbitfr from al future assign
mems.
Another new venture out on the
coast relates. 10 complimentary tickets.
Hereafter prcmiseucus distribution of
Annie Oakieys for athletic events will
be res sricted to the press and to par
Elephants; that is. II will. if the
unan nous sense of~-1he recent con-
feren&e contention is honored.
The idea is that any favors which
the athletic associa tons of the West
Coast wish to extend patrons and good
friends shall relate 10 the sale of
tickets in favored locations. Which,
by the way. is all that amy friend or
patron ought TO eNpeci.
Fine Plants Building.
OF stadiums and buildings for indoor
exercise. either in process of construc-
ton or projected. thare seems to be no
end among the institutions west of
the Alleghenies.
This month the University Of Wash
ington is going to advertise for bids
upon Il perfectly amazing building
building that viii have five basket ball
floors, in all some 65, 900 feet of floor
space The building will be a great
pavilion. capable Of being thrown into
an auditorium for basket ball which
will seat 10 900 spectators.
Last year Washington paid the last
bond of indebtedness on her $5O0,OOO
foot ball stadium. eight years ahead OF
schedule The aim now is to devote
proceeds from the stadium and the
present athletic pavilion to build
union which will house all undergrad
It'll L .f hsx.H. chr
that the duty of an athletic director,
such AZ Darwin MeiSnest. is not ex-
clusively confined to the simple prepa
ration of travelling budgets for teams
and the payment of coaches salaries
and the like.
Stops Big Game Hunting.
Williams College has declined to ac-
cept date on the foot ball schedule
of the Cornell eleven. The reason
given is that the New England col
leges in the Williams group are modi
flying the severity of their schedules.
In other words, the smaller institu
tons up there are beginning to realize
what Wesleyan long ago accepted as
fact that big game hunting does not
pay.
Years ago Wesleyan. wearying of
Offering herself up as an early season
sacrifice to Yale. declined further
meetings on the Gridiron. and adher
ence to this policy at Middletown has
been found to be distinctly beneficial,
If only because valuable players are
not killed off or their efficiency handi-
capped through early season contact
with some university juggernaut.
ThistlethWaite Experienced.
Glenn ThistlethWaite, Northwestern
grid coach. who viii go to Wisconsin