| Show CAMP CA MP DILATES DILA TES ON A MA TE U R RULE R lEE A AND ND GOOD OLD DAYS PA YS OF FAR SHOT TO SIMPLE SPORT DAYS OF LONG LONGI J I AGo AGOt OPINES CRITIC Football Has Become Game Ganze of Intricate Technicalities Requiring Competent Interpreters to Explain Its Points all Jl Many Confusing THERE WAS r AS NO AMATEUR l QUESTION IN TAG Jf By TT Walter alter Camp CUTUp t t Alas how much we read rend I tt We V c read The jumbled of creed and creed v With endless controversies feed Our groaning tables a n. month twelve a ago o a great body of representatives of all kinds No U O of associations met in New York to solve the amateur problem effect their confidence confidence con con- had difficulties upon amount of warnings warning as to the any from front sat satisfactory solution and yet we wo seem to bo be further now a than en ever r. r that almost as ns much time and nna Our sports have havo become so o complicated tt Associations attention is spent by hy tho the Boards Board of Control Leases Rules Committees like indoors in in regulating these sports as is spent out of doors in ill playing them thern Think Chink of the simple days of ot long ago ngo I 1 asked A fine old Now New lander Englander who still active c at 90 96 was good evidence for his day and generation to tell me what were the outdoor games of ot his youth He lIc wrote down for me nic the following definite list of the games he lie het t laved 01 Outdoor Cricket quoits wrestling wrestling- foot Coot races tag ball ames as baseball one flone old cat eat two old cat eat strike e and catch throwing hammer hammer hammer ham ham- byo bye running vaulting mer Jumping There were few team or group croup games as at the present time but on election da days s 's training training- days das and other holidays men would come together toe at some sonic public pI place nee appoint two captains who would choose sl sides es estrom from men present and have exciting James games o of cricket ba baseball quoits or I bye closing closing- with supper furnished b by bythe bythe the losIng sl e. e In country countr schools tho the older boys and sometimes the girls engaged In various running games as fox tox and geese and c. be In the winter snow forts were built bult and battles fought with snow balls I asked ed him further about In Indoor amusements and he enumerated the following which he called the house games of his da day In somo omo towns town and cities cards and dancing were popular with the young but In much of New ew England there was prejudice against them especially in church circles In their place wore were In social circles such house games gamos as checkers chess fox tox and geese Jack jade Jackstraws jackstraws straws hide and seek Beek dominoes blind blindman's mans man's buff when the farmer sows his seed ona cna mena mina mo me and several lIe sev everal ev- ev eral mathematical games and scientific puzzles and experiments experIment How strange It would scorn to return to the goo good 1 old times to play one old oid cat to pitch quoits In the back yards yards' instead of ot playing a game gime of ot football before people to play ena en mena mina mo and fox Cox and geese In the back parlor instead of ot dancing dancing- at the tho cabaret and waiting for the sun aun to rise before going to bed Where In those days ays was tho the amateur question T TAnd And yet et there was probably in every eYen community some somo genius who could bat better than all an the others and some sl sly evening evening- champion whose hose fox and geese game was suspiciously good Th The Men Who Are Making Football One ma may not write the final words of or tho football season just closed without without without with with- out more lucre than a passing comment upon those men to whom probably moro more even than to the officials and tho makers of or rules Is attributable the high plane of or orthe the game and Its Yer very wide annual In Increase Increase increase In- In crease In popular regard as well as popular understanding I refer to the thIr y 0 ball Is IB a game pame ame of ot man many and Intricate I 1 technicalities It Is a game that must even though the rules and customs aro are crystallizing moro more than ever before require a a. certain amount of ot tation The public is n a too busy crowd to spen spend 1 a a. groat Ireat deal of ot time In readIng reading read read- ing over tho the actual letter of ot the rules They hey leave that to the coaches to the players and to those men who have detail de de- de- de tall tail of ot the tho sporting pages to provide And it is this third group that Is 18 re responsible re- re for the public understanding of this sport that has bas under their work grown so great as 85 to tax to the utmost those thos bowls and stadiums and grandstands grandstands grand grand- stands that are aro being added to annually annual annual- I ly still without finding a limit to the demand of or those who vho wish to witness these contests Flint t Yale Princeton nekton Game When Yale and Princeton played their first game of or this American n adap adap- tion of or rugby football at St. St Georges George's orge yield Held Hoboken a a. tow low hundred most of or them entering not by means of ot the tho a admission ad- ad 1 mIssion gato gate but through a a. break in inthe tho the fence gathered in a fringe about the field and so little money was taken In that the tho president of ot tho the Yale Football Football Foot Foot- ball ban association himself advanced sufficient suf sut money to buy the tho team n a dinner din din- ncr ner in New Now York on tho the way home And later when Yale and Harvard first Ir t erected stands at Hampden park Springfield for tor their annual game there the full fuU seating Beating capacity was less than On the Saturday before Thanksgiving ing i this s year car people watched the Harvard rale game gamo at tho the Yale Yalo bowl bowland bowland bowland and more moro than tho the Navy Army contest In New York And best of ot all aU the tho huge crow crowds s of ot today have a a. far clearer understanding of ot the tho rules and methods of ot tho sport than thon had tho the smaller bands of ot enthusiasts In tho old lays days notwithstanding the tho fact tact that the rul rules s have o grown three times as long lono and ten times more complicated And this appreciation of ot the tho sport port has come not from a a. detailed study of tho the rules for tor oven tho the mon men who arc but a year or two out of the tho game c-ame will not sacrifice s tho the time to this but from the perusal of ot tho the summary of ot the rules committees acts and ond from the dally daily running comment throughout tho the season season sea sea- son lSon Upon upon the gamo itself Practically every paper laper in tho the country how has haa some one on Its staff start competent to perform this task of interpreter to the who read the sports pages paes and who through pages follow tollow th the progress of ot playa plays and players through h tho the season seaon up to tho the culmination of Interest In the final b games gomes ot or Year In Athletic Game The hero ot of tho the year ear In track athletics ath nth was without question Ted led Meredith Mere Mere- of the tho University of ot Pennsylvania In fact tact it Is 15 extremely doubtful If It any J r man will ivill be able to duplicate his feat teat of ot breaking the quarter qu and half mile records in n n. n single afternoon True Trues It may be dono done for even our most ro- ro a le performances ma may bo bC eclipsed In another decade but hut It Is not a question question ques ques- tion of or a L single record but a double one b by the same man and all condition conditions condi condl- tion will have to be favorable to make mako that possible In the Cornell won overwhelmingly lp with Yale second and the two visiting team teams Leland Loland Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford and tho the University of California third and fourth Tho The points were Cornell 4 46 Yale 29 9 9 Stanford Stanfor 22 California 20 Penn 20 Penn IS Dartmouth H 14 Michigan an 1 13 12 Harvard 11 11 Prin Princeton 10 Bowdoin 5 Syracuse Z L Penn State 2 Massachusetts Institute of or Technology I 1 1 Meredith of or Penn above noted note broke the tho record In both the quarter and arid halt half making a now worlds world's record in the 47 H 5 2 seconds beating beat beat- quarter s. s an and lug ing Maxy Longs Long's old previous record of ot September 29 25 29 1900 of or 47 5 4 and was vas only two fifths w. w of a second behind 1 I JULL OS' OS I U II L 11 17 7 st s. s Murray lurra of ot Stanford broke high hurdle record with 15 seconds High Quality of Performance A very ery Interesting commentary upon the general quality of or our Intercollegiate athletes is tills this ye year r found In the fact tact that taking tho the records up to tho the date of the intercollegiate trials there thero were were no rio less than ten men who had done 10 seconds or better In tho the hundred hun bun dred nine men who had done 22 2 or bettor bettor bettor bet bet- tor In the eight men mon who ha had 1 done 50 O or better In the quarter ten men who had beaten 1 minute S fig seconds In Inthe inthe the tho half nine men who had beaten 4 minutes 30 seconds in the mile seven men who had beaten 10 minutes In the thet t two mile ten men who had beaten 16 seconds se in tho the high hurdles six men inca who had beaten seconds se in tho the low hurdles seven soven men who hn had 1 beaten 6 feet teet In the high Jump seven men who had bad cleared over 22 feet foot 10 Inches Inthe in inthe inthe the broad Jump six elx men vho ho had done one I better botter than 44 feet In tho the and six men who had done better than H feet teet In tho the hammer and no less than thirteen men men who who had cleared 12 feet teet in the pole Iole vault To look lock at tho the matter In another way there were twenty men who ho had run the hundred In 10 5 2 or better fourteen men who had done the in tn 2 22 2 5 or better twenty-one twenty men mn who had dono tho quarter In 51 6 4 seconds s sor or better men who had run the half mile in 1 minute 59 seconds or orbett bett better r fourteen men v who ho had done tho the mile under 4 minutes 33 seconds nine men who had done on tho the two-mile two In 10 minutes and 5 6 seconds twenty men who ha had run tho the high hur hurdles In 16 1 5 3 66 h u UI or U L 1 In men n wiio W nu were c 26 In the low hurdles a dozen men who had done dono 6 5 feet 11 or better In the high Jump eighteen men mon who ha had 1 done clone one 2 22 or better bettor In tho the broad nineteen men who had Imd put tho the shot 40 0 feet 11 Inches or better hotter fifteen men mon who had done dono over feet fact In throwing the hammer and nineteen men who had gone gono over 11 feet teet 6 inches In the pole vault Dartmouth Again Winner In the tho No Now England Intercollegiate association Dartmouth a train again aln won on the tho championship and although lacking somewhat In stars tho the Hanover tc teams team's ms m's score was 50 points Tho University of ot Main was second with 32 Bowdoin and Holy Hoh Cross tied at 18 Tech and Williams tied at nt 10 Middlebury tl Trinity Trinity Trin Trin- It ity and Colby gathered 3 I points each Brown and Tufts 2 2 and Worcester Tech 1 J Kelly of or Holy Cross beat two of theold tho the old New ew England records going 9 4 5 In the hundred an and 1 21 2 5 In tho the O. O Savage broke the third record b by doing do do in ing 24 2 2 5 2 In tho low hurdles The Thc University of Wisconsin repeated repeat ed their victory O of ot last year car In th the Conference track meet scoring In i 1 12 3 of the 16 events and nd being 11 M points point 5 ahead of their nearest competitor Illinois Illi JIll nois Tho Thu scores were ld 49 J 1 1 3 5 Illinois 3 35 Missouri O California 1 12 Purdue 12 Mississippi A t M. M fi 5 5 Kansas Ian Kan sas 4 45 H Notre Dame 4 Minnesota 3 2 33 Oberlin 3 Nor Northwestern 2 Indiana 2 2 Ohio 1 and Ames 1 Bob Simpson the Missouri hurdler was t the thc Individual star of ot the meet winning the high hurdles In 14 5 3 and the low in 2 23 4 n. 4 and taking the second place in the broad Jump Smith of ot Wisconsin took first pla place e In both hoth the sprints and Binga Diamond Chicago's oa great reat negro I runner equalled Ted Merediths Meredith's world mark of or 47 7 2 5 2 In tho the quarter while Scott of Mississippi A. A M M. L equaled r rho r the ho eastern intercollegiate of nf 1 53 5 31 5 1 In tho half Mucks o of WIs- WIs broke the conference record in Inthe n the he discus with 55 65 feet teet 2 Inches The records made In the National A A. A U U. meet Were as follows Track Events yard ard dash dash dash-A. A. A E E. E Ward ard Chicago A. A A A. 4 yard ard dash dash dash-A. A. A E. E Ward ard Chicago A. A A. A 21 21 l 3 3 s yard T. run T. T J. J Halpin Boston A. A A. A 4 40 4 5 mlle 1 Don mlle Don Scott Missouri Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural college ge 1 54 Mile L. Milo L. L A. A Meyers Illinois A C 4 mlle B-mlle mlle mile Jole na Ray flay unattached 20 11 11 3 3 yard ard hurdles hurdes Robert Simpson Missouri 14 4 5 20 yard ara hur hurdles hurdles hurdles-F. les-F. les F. F W. W Murray Olympic club chili 21 L yard HO hur hurdles hurdles W W. W A. A Hummel Multnomah A- A A. A 5 44 I 4 5 4 a 4 3 mile walk walk walk-G G. G II Toronto W W. C C. 2 2215 H f 4 5 Field Pole vault vault vault-J. J. J D. D Nagle N. N T. T A. A C C. 12 feet teet Shot put put put-no n. n A. A Shepard Irish 42 feet 5 53 Inches HI High h jump jump ClInton Clinton Larson un unattached unattached un- un n attached G Ii feet Hammer throw throw Y W I tz Irish Irish- Amer Amor feet 7 74 inches Broad jump jump Frank Frank French X N. Y 1 A. A C C. 21 re feet t 73 ii 6 Inches CO lb Ih weight weight weight-I. L R. R Gear N. N T. T A A. C C. 30 feet 22 inches Hop step and jump jump jump-J J. J F F. Un lIn Boston A. A A. A 4 44 t feet i n inches Javelin throw Lour Karimo A A. A A 1 lf 7 feet U 13 Inches Discus L. I I R R. R Bagnard Los Ios Angeles A. A A A. A feet 10 Copyrighted 1910 Otis F. F Wood I I i I |
