Show All Sports Have Dave Tragic i I Incidents Camp Says Death of Jerome Recalls Incidents of Note In Other Branches BY WALTER C MI C dent Correspondent of ot The Tho Stand stan Stand 1 awl ard Copyright 1924 by the t dated dated Press Association I EW ORK ORK Jan Frankle 26 25 26 Frankie I sut- sut suffered su Jerome's death from Injuries in a bantamweight bout In New ew York has stirred renewed op- op opposition opposition op opposition position to professional boxing but butle headed i le headed sportsmen will III not butI be I stampeded into judging this par par- particular particular par sport on an accident I In the value of ot a sport aport where judged ed in that way ny and every sport which has haa caused n II death were banned there thero would could be no sport tod today All of or them have hale had thor tragic tr Incidents and most of or th them m mIln e been under attack For instance years cars ago aso an at- at attack attack at attack mI I tack was made mado upon rowing In InI Ingland A complete completo Investigation by Dr Morgan of ot Oxford showed that out of ot some men who ho had 10 towed ed on Oxford crews crows Injuries II could be traced to no more than 6 5 per cent About the same samo time football was being Investigated In InthIs inthis Inthis thIs country The Tho probe brought brout tOI forth th proof that the benefits of the game tar outweighed in the the Injuries suffered A As these thee Investigations were wore being be- be beIng be being ing concluded Ironic point was Jh given en to the investigators defense ot of the tho sports by the following In- In Incidents incidents In Incidents Five rh e young oung ladles ot or the tho North North- North Moody Moody field school went lIlg The horses ran away One ot of o the young oung women was as killed one was fatally Injured and the three others were seriously hurt That sam same ears day fI fire fIe e Harvard students student went sailing Their boat bont was upset ina In 1 squall and all five were drowned The life of ot a a boy is Just one sue sue- succession suc succession cession of ot risks from the tho time he heI I I gets his hl knife jack-knife climbs a cherry tree trpe goes calling lIIng or hunting plays playa ph s football baseball and other sports until unlit he reaches man s estate It Is practically impossible Im- Im possible to select vigorous sports that tb t involve no risk In tact fact Adams Lindsay Lindsly Gordon the British poet once nce wrote Tor no game g-ame was ever yet worth wortha orth a rap 1 For a rational Ional man nyan man to play 11 Into which no accident no mIshap Could ever find Its way t The real question should alwa bo be not whether there Is a chance of accident but whether hether that chance chanco Is so great rent as to overshadow the advantages of ot the sport aport Now Jow as a 0 matter of ot fact boxing t and and perhaps not boxing alone alono alone has often orten been credited by Its de- de de devotees with Ith more moro virtues than tt it possesses There Thre may be some point In iii the cont contention nUon of o Its opponents that Its object Is to Inflict lour injury Injun i II though this depends upon how the tho sport Is conducted But boxing booing certainly has merit That tact fact was as never more clearlY exemplified than during thear the war ar ardas days das when hen the sport did so much good in training camps and service stations Bo Boxing has a good record In the army and the navy and when hen properly controlled has great possibilities of ot benefit bene bene- benefIt benefit n fIt fit There Thero should be no hysterIa 0 oter cr an untoward unto ard accident A boy boyas was as killed 1 In a hockey game at Princeton Pr a few tew da days s after Jorome's Jerome's death but no cry went ent up to ban that sport iGol Golf Colt has Its lis chapter of ot accidents but nobody wants to ban golf Bolt So has baseball So has rowing An Important Yale Har Harvard Yale ard race was as abandoned one year owing to the death by b by drowning of ot Dunham one of the Yale crew on the evo eve of ot the therace therace therace race But that very cry ery death caused the formation of ot the Dunham Boat DOLlt club a a rowing organization Uon that obtained tor for many years sears ears at the uni university Away Ay back bick In the eighties n a student died at Yule Yale after alter a 0 box box- box boxing boxIng ing lag bout and for tor a time limo boxing was abandoned there But Dut It Is now flourishing again and promises to toha has ha o 0 a long life Hunting accidents I occurred In largo numbers I le er since tho the old days but ut still the sport goes on unabated SO with Ith sailing Bl bolting boating coasting coasting- I I skating and a host bost or of others which hate o been tho sports of youth for tor centuries But those sports continuo and will always be bo In vogue But all th's tha doe does docs not mean that every reasonable precaution not be taken to render sport both safe ae and sane And It Is l true that today loday such precautions are aro more numerous and more mon scientifically taken than ever before In athletic I That means that parents I of boys at school and college as aswell aswell well as communities In general jor Ibe may be sure that such risks as can be eliminated without emasculating em the sports are carefully watched land Ithe and legislated against so that on the holo the tho factor of safety Is higher than ever eter In the history ot And for that reo reason on there is less danger of ot hysterical and ill con legislation passed In the I heat of emotional nce b |