The entries for the big games at the Madison Square Garden on the 28th
will have a most cosmopolitan character. I spoke recently of the
Connecticut athletes who intended to compete, and I have heard that
several Bostonians are in training for the occasion. The Central
High-School of Philadelphia also expects to send representatives. It is
likely that the team will be composed of Frazier, Mekenson, and Hunt in
the sprints; Thomas, Hunt, Frazier, and Freeland in the relay race;
Thomas, Freeland, and Hunt in the half-mile; Thomas and Rutschman in the
mile; the Gillender brothers in the walk; F. Gillender, Halderman, and
Bay in the shot, and Buckley and Eyre in the high jump.
It is reported that St. Paul's School, of Garden City, is making
arrangements to withdraw from the Long Island Interscholastic A. A., and
join the new organization recently formed by Lawrenceville, the Hill
School, and a number of other large institutions, which from their
situation may properly be called "country schools." It seems to me that
St. Paul's is doing the right thing in joining the new league, for at
present it is competing with institutions not at all of its own class in
many respects. St. Paul's will doubtless at first be the weakest member
of the new league, but that should not be a reason for discouragement.
In the revised constitution of the New York Interscholastic A.A. a
penalty of $5 has been fixed for the forfeiting of any league contest.
This law should be strictly enforced, for there has been too much
forfeiting of games by teams that thought they stood no chance of
winning, and had not sufficient sporting spirit to appear upon the field
and do their best. If the five had been made double the amount, this
would not have been too severe a punishment. As it is, the treasury of
the N.Y.I.S.A.A. will doubtless reap considerable benefit during the
coming baseball season, if matters go as they went in the past. The
difficulty may now come in collecting the fines. It may be found
advisable to insert a by-law which shall make the fine for forfeiture
payable within a certain very limited period--say, before the date of
the next game scheduled for that team to play--on penalty of suspension.
Such suspension should be made to apply to the members of the offending
team, not to the school. The players who then found themselves debarred
from participating in other sports--track athletics, for
instance--would soon see that the fine was paid, and after one such
experience they would probably abstain from forfeiting.
ALBERT GEORGE, JUN., NEW YORK.--The ROUND TABLE will offer no
All-round Sports Medal this year.
PERCY HOLDSWORTH, ROCKVILLE CENTER, L.I.--An approximately accurate
table of interscholastic records was published in the ROUND TABLE
of July 9, 1895. Since then several of these records have been
broken, and another table will not be prepared until later in the
spring.
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