. Outing. man hockey team,then the university basketball, then thefreshman basketball, then the crosscountry team, then the call for wres-tling, then the water polo men, the gym-nasium team, and last of all there isa notice of a meeting of the Corinthian 658 THE OUTING MAGAZINE Yacht Club. And these are simply onedays notices! From this one can gather some im-pression of the new idea which extendsall these advantages to every man in col-lege and gives him something to thinkof in the way of definite physical de-velopment combined with is all very well for a man of fortyor fifty to
. Outing. man hockey team,then the university basketball, then thefreshman basketball, then the crosscountry team, then the call for wres-tling, then the water polo men, the gym-nasium team, and last of all there isa notice of a meeting of the Corinthian 658 THE OUTING MAGAZINE Yacht Club. And these are simply onedays notices! From this one can gather some im-pression of the new idea which extendsall these advantages to every man in col-lege and gives him something to thinkof in the way of definite physical de-velopment combined with is all very well for a man of fortyor fifty to take methodical exercise. idea of the rapidity with which thisphase of college and school life has de-veloped. Rowing as an intercollegiatecontest is the oldest, but that did notbegin until 1852. Baseball was takenup by the colleges in the early sixties asan intercollegiate contest. Track ath-letics followed but not until ten yearslater, and some nine years after thatthe first intercollegiate championship. WOMAN S CHAMPIONSHIP IN TENNIS. The boy from the time he has a chanceto test out his strength against anotherboy longs for competition, and unlesshe gets some of it with his sports, hewill have none of them. Everything is being made the mostof. It is the remarkable team per-forming in public and making a namefor itself in athletics that leads everyyoungster to wish to excel in somethingsimilar; holds before him a goal, it maybe of minor importance, but whichmeans much to him and leads himsteadily on to the full development ofall his powers. When one stops to think that noneof our intercollegiate sports is muchover fifty years old, he can gather some tennis tournament was held. The othersports are children compared withthese, yet in any one of the big collegesto-day squads for each of these sportsmay number over one hundred, some-times in the early part of the seasonrunning up to nearly two hundred. There is still another side to it. Thisnew idea that has come into school and
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