| Show WY Wn By Sol Metzger L I I 1918 by Sol So Metz- Metz i t Copyright 4 rt ger cr I has not already already- Ji I I T Congress I J- J done one so O it is S likel likely tot to t t. t make eligible for the draft army who ho have passed the men t ti oun 21 since June 5 1917 H f j. j in age e of a Should that bill become a law in intercollegiate mIL in- in m- m i IL f sport will have ani an- an i L I other period perio of hysteria not unlike un- un which seized it immedi- immedi f J like ke that following t the e declaration ofu of u S.- S. it watch out In- In J iu HU jL ii j jiu t. t deed our aUf entire system of collegiate col col- col- col c education will pet get et a a. jolt that is H Ii bound to result in In fn further t i.- financial retrenchment t. t The re suits of such a draft law in increased increased in- in should our army be materially creased ged is bound to make big in inroads inroads in- in roads the ranks of trained college athletes It has hns already become an established fact face that y the athlete is the raw ra material from oni which l to mould an ideal sol dier What more could ld be asked then than such a law be passed 1 It would imme immediately make available available available avail avail- able for fighting purposes those of our youth perhaps best fitted for duty abroad and once more put it up 1 to f the he colleges to give gie every ery encouragement to the work i of producing more men of i the same type New Man Gets Chance Every err time a college athlete enters enters enters en en- the service no matter by ly what route the colle college e in ques- ques S tion lion has a patriotic duty to toper per perform per per- form fonn no matter how costly to its athletic prestige the loss of said star ma may be he This dut duty i is nothing nothing noth noth- S ing more than putting another in inS in'S S 'S his place on the team tb thus automatIcally autoS automatically auto auto- S giving in i the second man manS manthe manthe S the athletic f training which is found to be so valuable in in the theS S training of a soldier f This war is forcing us to learn leall learna a 8 great deal relating to athletics c we never imagined before j Dreams are arc actually coming true The draft law proposed w will Il hut but accelerate these dreams For i example example ex ex- b ample not long back this column dealt with what was a more or orless less Jess ideal conception of sport-for- sport all in the colle colleges es Its meat con con- on- on fisted isted in the proposition that varsity var var- 5 sity sHy teams should be he made up of SS members of the senior class only S thus making the Y varsity the goal goaland S. S and paving the way for a 1 more 5 general participation in all competitive competitive cornS com corn S arnes mes by un n- n ates This plan ian placed intercollegiate intercollegiate intercol intercol- sport at the top boti ns os a 4 stimulus for athletic efforts by byall all aU students an and as a n means mean by which money moncy could be raised raisel for forS S supporting supporting- the whole program S. S Although h our oui colleges arc not notS S thinking ing of of adopting any such i pr program gram t they he are arc now no being forc forced into o quite sim similar to it Vars ty teams are arc be beginning inning to to exist for one season sason only Penn Ienn J 1 for ff example has already had eight of its 1017 1917 football team enter service other colleges are experiencing the same thing At Harvard Princeton and Yalo Yale freshman teams arc supplanting the varsity Consequently the job jobin jobin jobin in athletics at nt most institutions today j i is to develop new teams in all sports each year That is good and it is iS serving ng the country country country coun coun- try too loo Need Competition Those who advocate sport-for- sport all and no intercollegiate competition competition competition compe compe- have hac not looked far ahead Continued on Following Page Pago IE WARTIME V SPORTS Continued From Preceding Page Where is the monc money to conic come from even in peace times limes times times' While that plan ma may be ideal in the thc army those engaged in promoting it atthe nt at the cost of sion contests conte and championships all al without prizes are having distressing difficulty dir dif in in supplying even a small part of the needed equipment Some odd facts have come to light in college sport since the tho war has Ilas been on 1 Younger O mger men are playing on teams than before Joe Strauss about as 35 good a back backas as Penn IIa had last fall celebrated hi Ms sixteenth birthday during the tho season Strauss likely holds the record as tile the youngest college football player Henry Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and and Jeffersons Jefferson's 5 star tackle one of the best who ever e filled that position in all timo time and who is captain of that for next fall faU was 17 years old during his first sea season on on that varsity Bailey W West est Vi Virginias Virginia's i a s 's captain and center last fall was of like age his first year on that te ten team As the the war goes on we will see much lunch more ot oI this Rowing Boosted College rowing is being boosted more or less this spring and there will be he man many e c events ts rowed on college college col col- col- col lc lege e waters Princeton is going to be up against it as Dr coach of the crew who occupies a chair in English has just gone into Y M. 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A work in one of the southern cantonments as ed educational ed- ed director Rowing will likely lose its feature fea Lea ture turc for all time as a result of the war The days daj's of the intercollegiate intercol intercol- e regatta were numbered before into active we got participation participation participation pation in this struggle le for racy All that had prevented a breaking up lip of or that time honored race over the Pou course was the fact that Columbia had gone to considerable expense in erecting a boathouse and dormitory dormitory dormitory dormi dormi- tory near the course The objection to this race was and is h based not upon the commercial com corn mercial side of the regatta True an observation train did follow the crews but the receipts from tickets did not go into the various college athletic treasuries but to the railroad The rhe objection to the tho regatta was that it was held after the various institutions supporting supporting supporting support support- ing it had closed for the summer and aud there was continual friction between n faculties and crew man man- over o holding examina examina- Also the thc cost of two or three week of training o over or r the course was a staggering bill Rowing seems seem destined to confine itself to term time races and re regattas regattas re- re gattas over o waters adjacent to the various colleges This will necessarily limit it to distances of two or 01 at the most three miles because neit neither Pennsylvania nor Princeton can train 11 for for longer rac races on their home waters The Tue hi big problem in l college e ow owing owing ow- ow ing is to standardize tile the shells shell to be used This fhi would facilitate matters more than at first sup sup- posed as it would eradicate the thc necessity of crews shipping their boats bonts from place to place That accomplished the Columbia crew could leave New York at noon win will or 01 lose to Princeton in a Princeton shell and be back home hoille in time for dinner and hours of possible study All that stands in the way is the prejudice oC of rowing conches coaches each of whom thinks the shell he lie designs may be bethe bethe bethe the reason for his crows crews victory As the object in college rowing is isto is isto isto to make it Jt n a t test t of rowing by oarsmen and not of skill in designing designing designing de de- de- de signing shells tile the thoe e earlier vc we boat bont all crews lew in Lib Liberty model shells the tile better for rowing J |
