Official handbook .. . milar organizations. Another reason was that the students of these schools areall of very modest means, many of them earning their waythrough school, and are, therefore, unable to raise large guar-antees required to arrange games with the more distantNorthern schools and colleges who would Ije willing to playthem. Add to the two mentioned reasons the fact that in the insti-tutions for the education of the colored youth, athletics receivelittle or no aid from the institutional treasury, and that thereare very few alumni who are able to give any considerablesums for such p
Official handbook .. . milar organizations. Another reason was that the students of these schools areall of very modest means, many of them earning their waythrough school, and are, therefore, unable to raise large guar-antees required to arrange games with the more distantNorthern schools and colleges who would Ije willing to playthem. Add to the two mentioned reasons the fact that in the insti-tutions for the education of the colored youth, athletics receivelittle or no aid from the institutional treasury, and that thereare very few alumni who are able to give any considerablesums for such purposes, and it is easy to see that athleticsunder these conditions must live a precarious existence. With these facts before them, in 1906, a few public-spiritedmen, teachers in the institutions of learning situated in Wash-ington and Baltimore, met to devise means to afford the stu-dents in these schools a better field for athletic activities thanthey themselves had enjoyed while students of these same 1. Jyljii thiccyear A man in ff)ot ball and two-year A man ,utiaok events at Amherst College. Started competition iii M Street HighSchool under auspices of I. S. A. A.; 2, Edward Gray, foot hall A aSdtrack A man at Amherst College; third all-American halfback, 1908:I. S. A. A. record holder for low hurdles, shot and hammer events SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 17 Six men responded to the call for a mcetini::. They wereMr. W. J. DeCatur and Mr. W. A. Joiner of Howard Uni-versity. Mr. Garnet C. Wilkinson of M Street High School,Mr. Robert Mattingly of Armstrong Technical High School,Mr. E. B. Henderson, physical training instructor in the publicschools, and Mr. Ralph Cook of Baltimore High School. The meeting was held in the room of Mr. W. A. Joinerat Howard University. Discussion of the situation led to the opinion that thefield of athletics among these schools should be widened. Asat that time constituted, it included only foot ball and baseball; and for
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