Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1932, Page 44

D4 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . C, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1932. SPORTS. History of Athletic Competition in United States Is Comparatively Brief SPEED INCREASES INRATIOTOMEANS Changed Conditions Cause of Sprint Development as Toppino Sees It. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. Flyer, said recently that he thought the reason why there were an increasing number of sprinters who could run 100 yards under 9 4-5 seconds, was that they started younger and were better trained. There are more schools and more coaches. A school coach today frequently is as good as a college coach. EWE’I'I' TOPPINO, that Dixie ‘ | sippi eight years before. Bu* the Great 1626. George Washington was inau- gurated in 1789. In 1831 Martin Van Buren was President. That was the year the first train drawn in the United States by a steam locomotive ran from Albany to Schenectady, although the Savan- nah had crossed the Atlantic under steam and sail, and the first real steamboat, the Virginia, had made its way for over 700 miles up the Missis- Western, first regular transatlantic steamer, was not yet built, and the first telegraph line, laid between Washing- ton and Baltimore, was & dozen years away. APANESE athletes were at Lake | J Placid this year for the opening of the Olympic Winter sports, but Japan was not opened to international commerce by Commodore Perry until 1854. The ancestors of those great California foot ball players and track men had not crossed the Continent. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. Colleges have been a tremendous fac- | tor in the growth of sport in the United | States. Previous to 1700, just two of | our colleges had been founded: Harvard | and William and Mary. Yale was founded in 1701. B 1800 there were 23 colleges and universities. By 1831 they had increased to 56. The Uni-| versities of Alabama, New York, Deni- | son, Wesleyan, St. Xavier College and | Organized sport in the United States | the La Grange College for Women, in/ really is not very old. Let us try, for | © example, to see what its development | ynjversities of record. We | tercollegiate sport has advanced from start with the assumption that the | nothing to a huge financial and edu- has been in the last century. growth of sport is governed by such matters as competition, equipment, in- vention and transportation. So in tracing the advance made by sport in the last 100 years, it is necessary to consider the general condition of the United States in 1831 eorgia, were founded that year. | Today we have over 600 colleges and | In a century in- | cation problem over which members of | faculties and institutions knit worried brows. T | ONE of the simplest methods of dem- | onstrating the growth of sport in| this country in the last century leght»Huvles in Supporting Cast | collegiate contest, but Rugby was not | played between Yale and Harvard until | 1875, and our present game dates from about 1882. That was the year downs and a certain number of yards to gain were adopted. IS was brought from Bermuda in 1874, and court tennis arrived two years later. Casey, an Irishman | figrsoduted hand ball to Brooklyn in| 5. | Polo, a game at least 2,000 years | old and the most ancient of games with stick and ball, was not brought to America until the late ’70s. Its name is derived from the Tibetan word, “pulu,” meaning a ball .In its prim- itive form the game was valued mainly | as requiring horsemanship and skill. The Persians, who first described it, played four on a side under organized rules. It is still played by teams of four. | Polo spread to Constantinople, Turk- | estan, Tibet, China and Japan, but the | o first Anglo-Saxons to adopt it were English regiments serving in India. It was brought to England in 1869 by the Tenth Huzzars, and four years later organized by the Hurlingham Club, which in 1877 drew up a code of rules. Side boarding was introduced by the club because of the irregularity of its grounds, and has become almost uni- versal, greatly affecting the develop- ment of the game. EBBETS BOXES MANNING | of Maier-Nichols Bout. | Chicago, March 11 (#)—Harry Ebbets of Brooklyn, and Roscoe Manning, New Jersey Negro light-heavyweight will meet in a 10-round bout on the Dave Maier-George Nichols light heavy | title program at the Chicago Stadium ESPITE the fact that a couple of | is to observe the sports which did not | March 18. wars had been fought, neither a very large nor old Na- | vented by At that time the United States | Cooperstown, tion. had neither annexed Texas nor Ore- gon, and California, Nevada, Utah, this was exist 100 years ago. Base ball was in- | Gen. Abner Doubleday, at, N. Y., in 1839. The first | real match game was played on a dia- mond in 1846. The National League (James J. Braddock, New York heavy- | District .. Arizona and New Mexico had not | was founded in 1876, and the American Jjoined the Union. Remember that St. Augustine was not founded until 1565, nor San Gabriel, N. Mex., until 1598; that Virginia Dare, first child born in League in 1900. The first world series between these two major leagues was contested in 1903. Boat racing is ages old, but the‘ America of English parents, did not | America won her cup in 1851, which arrive at Roanoke, Va. until 1587; |started international yacht racing. The that Jamestown was not founded until | first modern roller skate was designed | Joseph Bolton Andrews, jr., of Newport, | Pub. H'th Women's 1607; that the Pilgrims landed in 1620, | by J. L. Plimpton of New York in 1868. | Ky., has been elected captain of the | vVet. Bu. Women's. vand 'that Peter Minuet bought Man- | Princeton and Rutgers played a game | hattan Island from the Indians in'of foot ball in 1869, the first inter- e e TAUBMAN ‘Nlore Power lo Along with the main event and the Ebbets-Manning bout, two other 10- rounders have been signed, involving Baxter Calmes of Oklahoma City, and weight, and Ben Jeby of New York and Frankie Battaglia, middleweight | from Winnipeg, Manitoba. CAPTAIN OF CAVALIERS, UNIVERSITY, Va, March 11— University of Virginia swimming team | for 1933. | the Otto Stol's on the inauguration VISITING TENPINNERS Bowling Duffers Start Play TAKE A. B. C. TURNS 256 Detroit Teams Finish—Otto Stoll Quint Out Front With Score of 2,747. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. OWLING'S bashful, blushing and | unsung duffers—brethren in that | great fraternity of sport folk who make all recreational sports, whether it be duckpins, golf, tennis or chess, the games they are—will have| their moments tonight, for at 7:30 o'clock a sizable gathering of the little| knowns, unknowns and would-be knowns | u ke e ubo : congregate at the Lucky Stril e o DS, Pa: arinette, | glieys for the opening of the annual Bill e 1 - 309 | Wood Dub Sweepstakes. Pa., are scheduled to bowl at | Jers with league 10:30 pm. Competition in the doubles | o, %07 &"eeg e 107—the bowlers :r;gm:tmgles event will open on Sat- | TR ey operators, o ::;P ;?:‘ ‘total of 25 weil known wolf f{rom the —are | mep"'fi?nnfip h;fit;gnslzm‘::;? t:fix; expected to line up tonight for the sé‘ng since the opening Tuesday night. The |Of the 15-game ust!. M?in : apeead o | local fives are rolling for special prizes, m;ez‘rétzai\: and Saturday: | apart from the regular prize fund of et S $87.300, and at the same time breaking | N0 other special pin el\esr[t.rws)l‘:végf‘ in the new alleys for the regulars. | €xception of the annual Star toutne: Despite the heary bombardment upon | TR U8R SURCEET, B Stakes, and the th vles, the 2,747 serles 7 |as the u kes, & Ot TAT Series posted by | 0 ractiveness of this year's has been | enhanced considerably. Not even the| By the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 11.—The first con- tingent of the out-of-town entry list of 1,151 teams will take the drives in | the thirty-second_annual tournament | of the American Bowling Congress to- night squad continues to top the tourney. g 5 o OUIEY. | Veriest of the league duffers will carry | | that_“sap” feeling into the stakes, for | Hamilton College will play but |a half a dozen minor prizes for the high | seven foot ball games next Fall. | game and set of each block will be | ek v e o A ik o Pin Honor Roll Last Night || In Wood Tournament Tonight awarded to those who finish out of the money. A bad set along the route may spoil chances for a major prize, but a good game or set along the way can bring back at least the entry fee. ‘Tomorrow another squad will get under way at the Lucky Strike. The event will continue next Friday and Satur- day at the King Pin and will wind up the following week end back at the Lucky Strike. The entry fee is $5, plus the cost of games. RELIMINARY steps toward the or- | ganization of & 20-or-more-team Veterans of Foreign Wars League will be taken tonight at a meeting in room section’s best doubles combinations competing in the first annual Atlan Coast Doubles Sweepstakes. Interest in the double stakes is run- ning high. for it will include the best duos of Washington, Baltimore, Rich- mond and several other cities. It will start at 2:30 o'clock at the Lucky Strike and wind up at 6 p.m. at the Columb; Ten games will be rolled in all. Y VOLLEY BALLERS WIN. The Y. M. C. A. representative volley ball team triumphed over Baltimore “Y" tossers in a close match of th: Tri-city League match last night at the local “Y.” The local players won three out of five games played. The scores were: 15-12, 15-13, 13-15 10-15 and 17-15. By a coincidence, each team scored a total of 70 points. Baltimore players were Paul Gabl Clff Slegrist, Robert McCahn, Robert 716, Colorado Building, at 8 p.m. To- | Breighner, Joe Hirschmann, Hardigz night's confab principally is to lay|Sexton and Norman Kaufmann plans for a tournament to be held dur- ing the latter part of April, by is for the foundation of ity bowling and in league competition. As Chairman Abe Grudd puts it, “This outfit, with 14 posts, cne cootie pup tent, an Overseas Band and an Over- |5 seas’ Drum Corps, should be able to form at least & 20-team league. Front Line Post already has three teams, Equality-Walter Reed Post has two and so has Advance Post. The T. N. T. Pup Tent, Military Order of the Cootie, team has been skirmishing with the post teams and should be able to put in a league entry, too.” WHII_E the dubs will occupy the pin spotlight tonight at the Lucky Strike, tomorrow they will be forced to share it with about 20 of the interest in | Th: local boys were John Loehler, Darr Smith, Willlam Lansford, Charles Sta: fer, Charles Sample, Joe Huntt, Harry Purse and Paul Damsbo. The Washington “Y" team will meet the Hagerstown team here tomorrow at p.m. ‘The interstate volley ball champion- ships will be decided in Baltimore on Saturday, April 9. TAYLOR TRIES PRO .BAI.L. Toby Taylor, former Eastern High third baseman, will try for a berth with the Youngstown team of the Middle A lantic Base Ball League, it has been an- nounced. Drury College, Springfield, Mo., resumed track and field activities. Dollar Hizh Ind. Game. ..Dixon . . 148 Lea Agriculture Automotive Commercial . Daylight . Dixon .. Nelson Crane . Eckloft 3 Daly Federal Women's. . 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