Show 1 War Levels I I S Distinction In Athletics By Sol Metzger i 1 1 AH n Is 15 a t great le el r Looking Loon Look w wn VV ing trig at nt sport matters In lit a abIg abl bl big and broad wa way with all points under consideration and the fu future future fu- fu u- u ture turo In mind we are aro of ot the opinion 1 I it that tills this war Is to tn havo o a long longtime time beneficial effect There Thero aro two 1 reasons for tor this First t. t tho war var Is shattering and arut breaking down our long established methods of or sport Second tho the people country and especially those In tho mould popular arm army who will opinion In Iii America after the theal war al are aro rapidly r developing a n altitude attitude toward our athletics than we WO ever or before held In short tills this war ar I is hi bringing ng us m. to lo a clearer understanding un Un- of sport Wo We 0 aro are getting getting get get- ting down to bedrock In our oC ot k thou thoughts even en In lit tho the realms recreation Two facts acts will wilt suffice to clear m my point When tho the government lIed applied its Ita work worle or fight order to baseball tho Stars Star and Stripe tho tim newspaper published hd by br the A A. 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F FIn In lit Franco France stopped publishing it Its big league ba baseball news It frankly frankO frank frank- O ly h. stated that thal a new nOd and finer 7 l mold old of oC hero had supplanted tho the American baseball god sad On or about tho the same lame time an o odd incident happened In France Franco Several Sow Sev the collegiate world eral years cars ago was stirred over o tho the George Georte Brickley Brickley Brick Brick- college Hart lIart- Trinity l ley y case caso at ford tord Brickley Brickle a brother of or tho tile famous Charles Brickley Brickle of or Harvard Har- Har yard vard had bad been bean tried out by Connie baseball 1 Mack as a n professional proCessional JJ wantIng wanting want- want player and had been found 1 a student student student stu- stu to enrolling as Ing Ins previous dent at Trinity At Trinity George GeorgeI Georgef I played full tull back on tho the el elevens eleven enL s f 0 and andr George Georgo also ao was wall a fine tine r L L' L a n. clean cut likeable bO boy had athletic athletic ath ath- About ever every coll college e that letic letle relations with Trinity went on ona a a. strike Trinity was accused of or breaking all nil the laws and covenants covenants cove cove- I nants of ot Intercollegiate athletic S ethics Trinity was tabooed b by its 5 New England associates and friends s and athletic relations vero severed But Bul Trinity stood firm through it all It announced that its code coda of or sport was based upon S h. h scholastic standing standing- an and manhood colors N Yos cs- cs i v and it stood b by Its leyan college was one ono of ot tho the Institutions S S which dropped Brickley Its president was foremost In this move It now seems that the tho learned j t prex Proxy went overseas to do Y M. M CA C.-A. work Worle Somewhere in France ho addressed a n. hut full ull of or Yanks s s one ono night As he ho closed his bis remarks re- re marks he was waB greeted with a. a Wes Wes- 1 i followed leyan lean song Bong Then the Trinity batS battie bat bat- Neath the Elms S tie de song Prex was as amazed and j S ill but overcome Who ho are you OU fellows ho he Is reported as sayIng say say- ing A A. sturdy bo boy in khaki stepped forward ard and held ou out t a big bronzed hand Im George Georgo Brickley of or said S Trinity he Now how would you OU have liked 5 1 I being in tho tile shoes Pretty P ticklish situation eh eli Imagine S. S feelings A as he ho looked into f r rs young Brickley's eye und and was held Sl by that firm han handclasp Back In InS S W th the states he had bad been lIeen raising cain caln t be bc because ause this tIlls young oung fellow tellow had hadr r dared to e assume that ho he e was WOIth worthy worthY wor- wor thy th thY of oC playing football against t Wesleyan Over In ill France Brick Brick- 5 1 Ie Icy ley wore tho the cloth of or a a. real hero had offered one of or the tho boys bors who I his all In a great cause J j But proxy pre was a man When hen ho he came amo back lack home homo he ho told the story ori on on himself S. S Countless incidents like this ate afe happening in l France rance each cach and andA It A every cla day American boys bos from fromA Yale to both amateur A 4 S. S i and pro are vying with each cach other in iii deeds deeds of or valor which tar far exceed ethe e the hon home run exploits of or J. J Franklin FrankS Frank Frank- lin Un Baker watermelon king or org 1 S S e that but who ho never S. S g Jet got their names In iii the papers of or them will remain for Alas man many nil fLit time somewhere along alonS' the road or v to to Berlin n. n r Was Wab it not in III a a. certain baseball ball 0 brief that one of or the learned learne magnates mag- mag nates of or the game expostulated to tol the effect that big league results l J were eagerly awaited in our trainIng train train- 4 ing camps in this country Amuse Amuse- 4 ment meat seized us when we read tho the thoi i lines Being then in Inn a training t. t camp within sixty miles of at four S cS w big league teams we recalled the q tv trouble we had gone to in arranging In ing to get got telegraphic results of oC oft t big league games with the names name of ot the batteries We c were cro going 5 to post them In all the Y M. M C. C A. A buildings each night A care careful Cui survey ey showed tile tho boys bos were not eAgerly awaiting this news There was as other news though that they did take to One night In Jul July a big in this Ihla camp was packed to Then Then-it It that headQuarters headQuarters' headquarters headquarters head head- capacity was quarters Quarters' got the news that the fighting Yanks were b bending back 1 tile the Hun salient allent The movie show how 1 was was going full blast every pair pall of or eyes tyes was following Douglas Fairbanks Fair Fair- t. t banks in a a. thriller In the darka dark- dark n ne 8 a old man entered near the stage stase He lie was unnoticed With the quickened eager cager spring of a a. bo boy ho he moved mo before the tho jr a-jr screen and rend read with emotional voice olce the tlc telegraphic dispatch l L. L Three thousand Yanks bent on gor go- go r f Ing overseas O overseas were Instantly fint on fin ss t their benches yelling and pound- pound I v L Ing each other Ty ly Cobb in his 5 days never heard such lIuch n. n din Tho The boys bos knew tho the home homo team was wa at bat and eVer every man of oC them j. j wished it was his turn next WeS Wo We S t t. t i rever er even get el baseball results They rhey dont don't want them But the boys O want sport want l J It t in abundance and as ns often as ns asS the they can get et It Thc They go KO In for It S J 1 with a vim and dash with all the ther r energy they can command But flut ff thC they don dont don't l take their sport oual U R is 18 recreation for tor them S 9 r r recreation spelled with a a. big bigOtt nr R. R r 1 You Ott 1 OU wont won't see Bee any army almy gridiron warriors crying as they leave lea the tho thov v field i iv ct Watch them boxing J Knockouts X L galore alore and 1 all ll that And boxing followers anti and promoters wonder hY they dont don't get killed Pad t fr your Your our rings ring the they toll us us but we we dont And AntI alt all b because we limit k v i the th time of or fights to three two two- round W We Wa also abo tj kc keen 1 ring size down dowil Put lut two of or them hem hemin in one toot eighteen rings 8 for fOl such uch a n short limo timo and you ou got get ct sparks IH and fire firc sparks and fire No Nu ono one gets tired and worn vorn con con- iv ii up ono one gets badly b hurt who dies In H Its HH the tired lI fighter lie ring Dont Don't for forgot forget ot that Yet this war var IB Is going oln to be he a n. great reat leveler In sports sports- It I is going to give o I us an entire entirely different viewpoint In title this matter Wo We arc going to give el liP up athletic hero horo wor worship hir for one thing and we are aro all going to recognize sport as tho the means to the tho ho end of oC physical effi oUI- efficiency and mental alertness for Cor another tiling thing Wo Ve e will have hae all kinds of sport after this war but so 50 much more of or It that tho tile tapers papers will not Ilot bo be able ahle to give gl much mitch space to such lIch uChi small matters as a n world or a n Yale Harvard football game bame all because nearly everybody will witt be bo playing In what to them Is Just as aa Important a match I l Copyright ht 1918 Sol Metzger er |