Evening star., 1935-04-11
COACHES GET NEW
SLANTS ON SPORT
Bergman Tells of Benefits.
Golf, Base Ball Making
Strides on Campus.
BY II. c. BYRD.
BY III. C. BYRD.
--OOT BALL clinics should be
~ one of the greatest stimu-
lating agencies connected

OOl BALL CllIllCS SAoulu NC
- one of the greatest stimu-
lating agencies connected
with the game" said Coach
Dutch Bergman this morning IN
speaking of the gathering of high
tomorrow evening and Saturday morn
ing at Catholic University for general
and technical discussions. The two
sessions will be joint yunder the man
agement of Catholic University and
local sports goods establishment, rep
resented by Ace Leonard. former
chairman of the Athletic Committee
of Colgate University.
When coaches get together" con-
tinued Bergman, for discussions
about various phases of foot ball new
noints are brought out and almost
everybody profits. I never have at
tended one of these clinics, frequently
held in the North. but have brought
avay from other discussions new
viewpoints about some technical sides
of the game that never before hao
occurred to me- And another thing
about this kind of a gathering, the
coaches get to know one another more
personally, and that makes for better
feeling on the field and in other insti-
tutional relationships.
High school coaches get good deal
out of these discussions. They not
only pick up points from the talks
given by prominent coaches but also
get close personally to the best minds
in the game and from those personal
contacts acquire information that they
never could get in any other way
Interest Is Great.
~HE meetings at c. u, to be held
in the Music Building, will be-
gin tomorrow night at o'clock
and Saturday morning at 9. From
reports that have come from various
schools in this section, both colleges
and high and prep schols, the gather
ings should be very representative and
large
ANDY Kerr, head coach at Colgate,
Is to be the principal speaker at both
meetings. Tomorrow night he is to
talk on offense and Saturday morning
on defense. At each meeting repre-
sentatives of local colleges, Georgetown,
Catholic University, George Washing
ton, MARYLAND. and of Navy will pre-
sent a general outline of the systems
of coaching they use to supplement
Kerr's lectures.
~OLF is making a good deal OF
II headway in the colleges as an
intercollegiate sport, if letters
to local schools requesting matches
are a good criterion. From North and
Siuth almost daily come missives from
some institution, and intercollegiate
teams in this sport now are becoming
the usual rather than the unusual.
University Of Michigan's base ball
team is here to play today and tomor-
row at Maryland.
The battles out at Maryland should
be about as even as college ball games
usually are, which means that they
may or may not be well contested.
College ball is one sport in which any,
thing may happen at any time.
MYTH an increase in the Cadet
w Corps at West Point from
1900 to 1900 practically a GER
tainty, through congressional action,
it seems that athletics at the Point
should get quite a stimulus
This increase would mean more
men to pick from and, with the strin-
gent entrance regulations, both phy-
sical and mental, it would seem that
many of the additional 600 cadets
should be good athletes or have the
makings of good athletes.