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Show ; SCHOOLS AGREE TO SUSPEND ALL FORM OF SPORT i i Athletes Will Be Expected! to Take Military Training; Train-ing; Yale Crew Will Row Last Race Today NEW YORK, April 6. Representatives of the athletic associations of the leading eastern universities and colleges met here today and decided to suspend, for the time being at least, all intercollegiate eport competition as a result, of the declaration dec-laration of war. Inasmuch as many of the universities already had announced discontinuance of athletics in the event of war, a letter was sent to Major General Leonard Wood asking for his advice in tiie matter, to which he sent the following reply through Major M. J. Pickering, graduate athletic manager of the University of Pennsylvania: Pennsyl-vania: $W your young men to stick to their resent duties until such time as the ftovernment calls for men. This it undoubtedly un-doubtedly will do when its plans are announced. an-nounced. You have at Pennsylvania a training corps and an olfirer of the regular regu-lar army assigned as instructor. The most important service men can render KJ-elr country now Is to stay at their uTV'erslty put In all the time possi ble under a military Instructor in preparing pre-paring therrieslves for probable servloe. There Is no reason whatever for the men discontinuing their college work until the government's plans are definitely announced. an-nounced. "Sincerely yours, "LEONARD WOOD' At the conclusion of today's confer-, confer-, ence it was announced that military training in the Institutions represented had received such an impetus through the present national emergency that most of the athletes were taking instruction to such an extent as to Interfere with intercollegiate inter-collegiate competition. For the present Yale, Princeton, Cornell. Harvard and Columbia have suspended all intercollegiate intercol-legiate competition. PHILADELPHIA. April 6. Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Yale will cross oars tomorrow in the first and probably the last regatta re-gatta between eastern colleges in 1917. When he called his crews together after their final practice late today, Guy Nickalls, the Yale coach, told them that, because of the war, it was probably yhe last race some of them would ever row for Yale and that he expected them to put forth their best efforts. Nickalls announced an-nounced that his varsity boat would be composed of youngsters, the veteran crew having been beaten in the trial races. |