GREAT ATHLETIC ACTIVITY REPORTED FROM COLLEGES

Reports from Columbia, Cornell, and Annapolis show that these institutions in common with many others throughout the country expect and will prepare for renewed activity in all forms of athletics.

Increased athletic activity, which it is believed will make itself felt at Columbia immediately after the opening of the university for the Spring term in February, has caused the athletic officials to begin to cast about for athletic fields to supplement South Field, which at present is the sole exercising ground of the university. It is felt by some of the men prominent in Columbia sports that it will not be more than a year or two before it will be found necessary to begin work on the long-neglected project to build a stadium on reclaimed ground at the foot of West 116th street.

South Field provides accommodations for only one baseball team, half a dozen sets of lawn tennis players, and the track team. While these sports are going on all other sports must cease, and for this reason the University Athletic Committee found it necessary to withdraw first from intercollegiate lacrosse and then from intercollegiate soccer.

The future at Cornell is bright. The student body promises to support athletics, financially. Many prominent Cornell athletic, who have been overseas, have returned.

Athletics at Annapolis have an even better prospect. The present fourth class has already made a showing in athletics. Its members have done excellent work on the football and basketball teams, and now many are going into the winter sports or looking forward to those in the Spring.

The coaches and officer drectors of the Winter sports--swimming, wrestling, gymnastics, and fencing--have already secured a number of likely men from the class for their special branch. It is known that there is much good rowing material, five eights having been formed last Spring, while baseball, lacrosse, field and track, tennis, and rifle shooting are sure to get valuable recruits.

Football and basketball were greatly strengthened by the material which the new class afforded.