Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
SEEK WAYS TO PUT
NEW LIFE IN GAME
N. c. A. A. Committee Hears
Some Queer Plans for
Reviving interest.

OOLLEGE base ball, according t.
the recent report made to the
~ National Collegiate Athletic
Association by its base bali
committee, is In q pretty bad
way. The committee Of which Prof.
Edgar Fauver of Wesleyan is chairman
stated, During the three years the COM
nittee has made a study of the stu
alton of base ball in the colleges it has
not found its position good or improv-
ing"
This committee favors a new set of
rules to cover college base bail, rules
which will In no way differ from the
present rules in reference to the tech
nical part Of the game, but with those
portions deleted that refer to fines and
suspensions as applied to the profess
sional game.
The committee advised that a code
of good sportsmanship be included in
the rules. 1t was also advised that the
game as played now, by the colleges be
speeded up. that the players run back
and forth to the bench between innings
instead Of ambling leiSurely back and
forth, as they do now.
Answers Are Amusing.
The causes for the decline of interest
in college base ball, as shown In an
swers to QUESTIONABLE the committee
sent out, are unique and amusing. One
college reported that the cause OF loss
of interest in. base ball was due to the
automobile and advised that the auto
be eliminated in the colleges.
Another college suggested that .
law to keep boys away from. golf
courses, If constitutional. would help"
Still another college put forth the sug-
gestion that the best way to aid col
lege base ball was TO abolish profess
sional base ball. Another college sug-
gested that It would aid the college
game If the fees of the umpires were
! increased. OF 81 Questionnaires re-
turned to the committee, Al favored
new set Of college base ball rules and 10
were opposed. 49,
One Of the suggestions for stimulate
ing interest in college base ball which
the committee considered worth con-
sidering, was for the base ball coach to
retain all the candidates who reported
for the squad throughout the Spring
season and evolve a number of teams
somewhat after the intramural system.
The committee in its report admitted
that 1t was unable to do much with the
situation. 1t even advised "tine enlarge
ment OF the committee to 1nclude in its
membership those who are more pro-
ficient in the technical side Of the
game at the present time than the
present members of the committee"
New League In East.
This base bali committees Of the N. c.
A. A. Is evidently not closely IN touch
with the game in the Eastern COLLEGES,
for during the coming Spring revival
OF interest Is anticipated one new
league has already been formed and
another may be suggested. The new
league which win operate in the Spring
includes Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth,
Columbia, Pennsylvania and Cornell,
the same members now represented in
the Eastern intercollegiate Basket Ball
League
Another Eastern college organization
was suggested q year ago, but the
| project never took on definite form. It
was proposed at that time that Ford
ham, New York University, Brown.
Lafayette, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Boston
College and others form league. Some
Of these institutions favored it. but
others were lukewarm. Another at
tempt at organization may be made in
the Spring.