Evening star., 1932-02-02
PLANNING TO BUILD
25 COURTS At ONCE
viii Be Step Toward Broad
ening Physical EduCa-
tionaI Program.
BY II. c. BYRD.

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N forts with the RitChie
4 ' Coliseum, its new build
ing for indoor athletics,
the University Of Maryland short
ly will begin the construction Of
25 tennis courts. Several of these
courts are to be built as a part
of the new athletic field for girls
and adjacent to the girls gym
naSium, and the remainder as
additional recreatiOnal facilities
for men. Letters were sent out
this week to several firms in Mary
land and Pennsylvania which
make a speciality of tennis court
construction asking for bids.
Some of the courts probably will be
ready for use in the late Spring. but
it is not hoped to have all before the
opening of the university in the Fall
An effort will be made TO get at least
four completed so that they may be
used not only for reCreational pur-
poses, but by the varsity tennis squad.
Unless some courts can be constructed
at an early date the tennis team for
the coming Spring might almost as
well shut up shop" as it will have no
place of its own to play The new
athletic building was erected on the site
Of the old courts.
THE construction of the new courts
i Is ore of the many steps the uni
verSitv is taking in providing phySi-
cal recreation for all students and in
creating facilities for training of teach
erS of physical education For several
years the Old Line school has Deen
working along a well defined plan for
the development Of its athletics, which
provides not only teams for interCol-
leglate competition but also gives equal
attention to the provision of adequate
facilities for general physical recreation
for all students, with the physical edu-
cation department working in COllabO-
ration with the Reserve officers Train
ing Corps unit. the development Of
intra mural sports, the building up of
a corrective system of health exercises
and examinations, with all these lines
working in conjunction with the Col
lece Of Education to train teachers of
= pr-SiCal education fer the high schools.
An Intramural Sports Athletic Com
r,-ttce has been organized much along
the lines of the Athletic Board. which
controls intercollegiate athletics, to
control intramural athletics Prof. c.
L. MaCkert. former Maryland foot ball
star is in charge of the general phySi-
cal education work and is chairman of
the Intramural Sports Committee
Mackert also is to be appointed to
membership on the Athletic Board and
officially will begin his period of serv-
ice on that board next Fall, although
he probably will sit in the various
meetings Of the board from now on.
1T is Maryland's intention not to add
i more new sports to the list of in
terCOllegiate activities. but to use all
its spare funds for the development of
intramural competition. In fact, there
has been some sentiment developed
toward the elimination of one or two
sports now being fOStered so that the
funds being used for them may be
thrown into activities that should
reach larger groups of students. In
other sports the intercollegiate and in
tramural phases are to be merged in
way that should build up both.
In tracks, for instance, in which
Maryland has not done very well in
the last two or three seasons, it is the
intention to build up a system of in
tramural competition, to get out at
least 200 men, that will run through
out the entire year and from this COM
petition get the men to compete in the
intercollegiate meets in the Spring. 1t
Is hoped to work out the same system
with boxing, which also will be de-
Veloped on a much greater scale than
either last year or this.
The development of this system of
intramural sports and general physical
education will in no way interfere with
H. II l@.v4 o1tF1 llNr
should supplement intercollegiate ath-
leticS by providing a larger reservoir
of material Maryland will continue its
program of intercollegiate competition
for foot ball lacrosse, basket ball, base
ball track and boxing in much the same
way it has been carrying it on the
last few years. The Old Line school, at
least as it conducts athletics, has no
worries about OveremphaSiS on athletics
and recognizes that intercollegiate COM
petition has come to have an almost
indispensable place in university life.
1t simply will supplement that with
system sufficiently comprehensive 10
reach every student and to aid the hlgh
schools by providing them with profess
sionally trained physical education
teachers both men and women.
A MEXICAN UNIVERSITY'S basket
~ ball team will strive to make Ran
dOlph Macon it's eighth straight
victim when it plays the Vtrginians in
the A. U. gym tonight.
The invaders have not shown the
strength that would indicate that they
would give the Methodists anything
more than a good game.
University of Maryland will be with
out the services of Rufus Vincent,
sophomore center, who is leading the
Old Liners in scoring with 70 points,
when Catholic University is met tomor-
row night in RitChie Coliseum at Col
lege Park.
Vincent hurt his ankle in the game
with Virginia Poly last Saturday ana
It is possible that he will not be avail
able for use against North Carolina
Saturday.
Jack Norris. regular center last sea
son. who also is playing fine baSkeS
ball will be at the tap-off Job against
the Cardinals Otherwise MarvlandS S
team will start as usual with Shorty
Chalmers and Ed Ronkin, forwards
and Bozie Berger and Bucky Buscher,
guards.
It may be that Wilbur Wright, guard,
will return to the squad. He is waiting
the results of the midyear exams and
Is hopeful that he has emerged from
his scholastic difficulties that have had
him out of athletics for time.
While Maryland and Catholic U. are
having it out at College Park tomor-
row. the Georgetown qulnt will be over
at Baltimore tackling Loyola. The
Hovas are hopeful of getting away from
the hard luck streak that has cost them
a ,,u,,,her of CaneS nv narrow narginS