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...leading universities and colleges of America decide to make lawn tennis a major sport, as now seems likely, the action will mean almost as much to the future good of the game as an entire season of interesting competitions...
...some reason the importance of college games still depends largely upon their possibilities of physical injury rather than their potentialities of skill, and the spectators as well as the governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however...
...just such a condition that the traditions of collegiate major sport would remedy. A man wearing his college let- ter would think twice before allowing himself to be beaten simply because he was weary and out of breath. A little more of the never-say-die spirit, as promulgated by the collegiate code of honor, would help both the standards of tennis and its popularity with the "red-blooded" variety of sport lover...
...means let tennis be recognized as soon as possible as a collegiate major sport, where it belongs by every law of popularity, of physical demands and of standards of skill, so that eventually the last vestige of that stigma which has so long marked is as "a mere social diversion," will have been removed forever. New York Times
...undergraduate members of the University track team who have won their "H" in that sport are eligible for the captaincy in the election now being held through the mails. In an erroneous report yesterday it was stated that only the "H" men in the Senior Class were to be considered as eligible...