Evening star., 1932-05-13
HOPE FOR BUSY DAY
AFTER RAINY SPELL
Base Ball, Track, Lacrosse,
Tennis, Golf Listed-C. U.
Mum on Scholarships.
BY HI. C. BYRD.

T OCAL college athletic teams
probably will be able to get
L. back in competition to-
morrow. Hardly the least
chance exists that games can take
place here today, as the rain has
left the fields in such shape that
1t should be next to impossible to
get on them. With clearing today,
the fields ought to be alright
for contests tomorrow, although
tracks are bound to be heavy.
The only competition the local schools
have had in the last few days is the
ball game yesterday at Boston, in which
Georgetown whipped Harvard to open
its New England trip, Richmcrd Uni
Verslty was here Wednesday and yes
terday for games with Navy and Mary
land, but went back home late yester-
day afternoon without playing either.
Two tennis matches also were Sched-
uled but they also went by the boards.
Virginia Military Institute also will
find it impossible to play its base ball
game with Maryland this afternoon and
the Georgetown courts will be in no
condition for a tennis match with
Lafayette.
wide variety of competition is listed
tomorrow. GeorgetownS base ball
team remains in the North for a game
with Holy Cross. The Blue and Gray
is to meet Boston College today. Mary
lands Lacrosse team left today at l
o'clock for Penn State, where it plays
tomorrow, and its track team is to go
to Annapolis tomorrow for a dual meet
with Navy. Catholic University enter
ta'ns Wake Forest here in dual meet
and Gallaudet has the Lynchburg Col
lege cinder FATHERS as its guests.
Georgetown's golf squad is at Boston
to play Harvard and Dartmouth.
TATHOLIC UNIVERSITY is expected
~ to take the measure of Wake
Forest IN the dual meet. The
Rrooklanders have developed rapidly
this Spring, ard Coach Dorsey Griffith
is pleased over what the team has
seems to stand better than an even
chance to show the Lynchburg College
runners a clean pair of heels, maybe
several clean pairs would be a better
way to express it.
Maryland ought to get an even break
In the two competitions in which it is
to take part. 1t should win from Penn
State in lacrosse, but has no chance
against Navy in track. The records of
the Midshipmen so far this Spring in
dicate that they should make a walk
away of the affair
TWO days ago in report of a meet
l. ing in New York BY the colleges
and universities of the Middle At
lantic section, the subject of which was
to establish a regulation whereby the
rating of institutions as standard COL
1eges would be affected by the giving
of athletic scholarships, the writer.
stated what was expressed as the senti-
ment of the Catholic colleges there rep
resented, namely, that the Catholic COL
leges expressed themselves as against
the policy of doing away with athletic
scholarships unless the colleges were
willing to go the whole way and do
away with all kinds Of help for athletes.
In this connection it has been called
to the attention of the writer that
Catholic University, while represented at
the meeting, did not express its feelings
either for or against the proposed action.
The writer is glad to correct this i'm
preston, as the Catholic University
representative, Dr. Maurice Sheehy,
made no statement whatsoever. The
institutions the representatives of which
expressed their views were Georgetown,
Fordham, Canisius and St. Joseph's.
FRANK DOBSON, director of ath-
L letics at the University of Rich
mond here yesterday with his
base ball team has little patience with
those that decry the future of college
athletics. 1t is Dobson's opinion that
college athletics has hardly begun to
develop and is in no danger of break
ing down.
These people who try to create the
impressions that college athletics is
breaking down and the future will see
good deal of ping pong and whatnot,
either do not stop to consider the his
tory of the human race or have some
ulterior motive in their attempts to be-
little sports. For thousands of years
human beings have watched contests
between individuals and between groups
which test the physical and mental
worth OF the individuals and groups,
and, unless some great castaStrophe
takes place, such contests will continue
for another few thousands of years.
Another thing in connection with
physical education. Every step taken
to build UP play activities in the COL
leges for the general student body Just
creates more enthusiasts for athletics.
The first thing that play group in a
college wants, once it gets organized.
Is to meet a similar group from some
other college. Instead of hurting COL
lege athletics, the development of gen.
eral play and health programs will
serve to stimulate college athletics.