Evening star., 1933-03-03
THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

game Is today"
LAS an experiment" suggested,
why don't you hold q small tourna-
ment, the entry list consisting Of six
or eight leading pros, three or four
high class amateurs, and six or eight
average golfers who play from 80 to
los, and see just what would happen?
It would at least be an interesting ex-
periment-to see their scores and to
get their reactions from a 5la or q
6 inch cup"
"rn see If can't put that over"
Sarazen said. "And I believe it
would attract a lot of interest. Ill
start working on that idea right away"
A LMosr every Winter there
n arises the old debate as to
n which is the fastest same-the
game that demands the most
continued action.
One correspondent goes beyond this
debate In asking that these games be
listed in order.
The list must include foot ball. basket
ball, hockey, base ball, lacrosse, track
and field. tennis, golf, wrestling, squash,
water polo and boxing.
When it comes to combined speed and
aCllOQ, SuOulQ say L1ldt llUChCy COAuCS
first and basket ball second.
There is much more continued speed
and action in hockey and basket ball
than in foot ball or base ball.
A foot ball game usually takes up two
hours for the four 15-minute periods
But in this time only IL or 13 minutes
ever find the ball moving.
Tennis isn't far from third place.
When it Genes to rough action, water
polo is close to the top.
The main feature Of foot ball and
boxing is the punishment handed out.
But when it comes to q matter Of speed,
action and Furnishing effects hooked to-
gether. hockey is well in front Of the
list And lacrosse, another rough, swift
moving game, isn't so very far away.
IT has been a long time since the
i track knew an athlete as versatile
as Billy Carr, the Pennsylvania run
ner, who ended the 440-yard and the
400-meter reign Of Big Ben Eastman
last Summer.
Carr was picked as the smoothest
piece Of running machinery in the
Olympic gaines as he cracked the old
47-second mark at almost every start.
Now Lawson Robertson, his coach,
says Carr will be returned to the old
100 and 200 meter distances next
Spring.
sprinter," Robertson said. Il switched
him into the longer distance because
he had stamina as well as speed and
we had all the 100 and 200 meter
entries any Nation would want.
II won't say that Bill will set any
new world records at the shorter range,
but he will always be hard to beat.
There Is almost no waste motion IN his
running and with his durability he
will be especially hard to outrun over
the 2o0-meter route"
Carr's final sprint at Palo Alto and
later at Los Angeles, slipping by East
man without the slightest show OF extra
effort, remains a picture OF form per
lection which few who happened to be
present when the Arkansas Traveller hit
the trail will ever forget.
THE ideal recently suggested by DR..
i s. v. Sanford of the University Of
Georgia is worth looking over.
He has suggested that scholarships in
American universities be awarded on
the Rhodes scholarship plan, under
which both scholastic ranking and ath-
letic ability are taken into considers
ton.
AS the case now stands all over the
country, hundreds of scholarships are
given out where foot ball ability Is the
main Ingredient involved.
Certainly there should be no restric-
tions of scholarship awards because the
recipient happens to be good athlete
or q good foot ball player.
But there is little amateurism left
where the award is almost entirely on
the basis Of athletic ability. And this
has been taking place all over the map.
Preference always should be given to
those who have the combined qualiflca-
tions And the safest way to handle
this is to put it under faculty control
to put each scholarship up to the
faculty board. This places the respon-
sibility where it belongs.
Almost any system would be better
than the one now used in so many col
leges, where hypocrisy has the leading
role.
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