THE ETERNAL MUCKER The baseball series for the world’s championship between the winners in the National and American Leagues has ended in a fashion unexpected by dopesters, both professional and amateur. Most of the wise gentlemen who edit the sporting columns of newspapers had predicted a victory for the New York Yankees. The triumph, howe... continued
Women’s Golf Championship
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
YOUTH has been served in the women’s amateur National golf championship as well as in the men’s, for the victory in this year’s tournament has gone to Miss Glenna Collett, of Providence, Rhode Island. In the finals she defeated Mrs. William Gavin, of England, by five up and four to play. Four former American title-holders fell by ... continued
New University Athletic Code
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
YALE, Princeton, and Harvard have formulated an athletic agreement which is admirable. Of course this agreement does not indicate any radical departure from present practices, as some commentators would have it, but is very largely merely a codification of the public opinion of these three universities. It puts in explicit terms ideals which have... continued
Brothers in Football
November 23, 2009 By
SIMILAR POSITIONS on football teams have often been filled by brothers, we are told by R. E. Klingensmith, writing in The Journal of Heredity (Washington). He submits a list of 29 sets of brothers who are playing or previously have played college football under coaches who presumably knew the positions to which they were best fitted. This list sho... continued
Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 2
November 22, 2009 By
In skiing, as in most other sports, the right way is the easy and simple way. In the game of golf the unconscious, easy natural swing of the caddy boy is the despair of more than one perspiring, hardworking golfer. So, in skiing, the tendency of most beginners is toward work -instead of ease. Skiing is essentially a game of skill, not muscle. The a... continued
Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 1
November 21, 2009 By
ANYBODY can ski. (You pronounce it “she,” experts tell us, if you wish to be strictly au fait.) It is a man’s sport, and woman’s and a child’s, and the difficulty is chiefly in appearance, for, we are assured, “it is fairly easy to learn.” As in pronouncing the name of the sport, once you acquired the knack... continued
Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 2
November 19, 2009 By
In Russia, owing to the rough ice, a sail area of 600 to 1000 square feet is necessary, and ice-boats are heavily built with side-bars, and carry twenty people. But on the great expanses of ice smooth spots of about the size of an ordinary lake form and on these are used the lightly constructed racing craft of American design. In Stockholm, Sweden,... continued
Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 1
November 19, 2009 By
THRILLS, in variety and number not to be experienced anywhere else, can be found aboard an ice-yacht, with enough breeze to give about sixty miles an hour on spurts where the going is good. So says a veteran American designer of ice-boats; and, he considerately adds, there is little or no danger in the sport, for “statistics show that acciden... continued
Indoor Polo Develops a Little Theatre
November 19, 2009 By
IT IS AN intimate sort of thing, this indoor polo, that makes sport of the winter of our discontent, and gives a real “close-up” of the galloping game. From the time these lines appear until well past the Ides of March there will be something of a furore in the armories, East, West and North—New York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, N... continued
Little Bill Johnston Stays an Amateur
October 29, 2009 By
THE decision of William M. Johnston, international tennis star and Davis Cup defender, to remain an amateur in spite of the dazzling offer recently made to him by C. C. Pyle, the tennis impresario, to turn professional has about it something rather fine. William T. Tilden 2d, for six consecutive years National Champion, also characteristically has ... continued