Three Sports Unite in Fund Raising Plan

Fund raising appeals for three spring sports are being consolidated into one combined drive, it was learned yesterday.

The Department of Athletics has already sent letters to Varsity Club members and former participants in baseball, tennis, and golf, asking for money to defray the expenses of the teams trips to the South during spring vacation, according to Carroll F. Getchell, business manager.

He described the project as an "experiment," which next year may be expanded to include all sports in a comprehensive drive.

An endowment fund, to be called the "Friends of Harvard Athletics," will be set up as soon as $3000 is collected in addition to the money needed for the trips, Getchell added. Interest from this capital fund will be used either for general purposes or by particular sports, he said.

The consolidation of the requests for baseball, tennis, and golf will cut down the separate appeals to the donors, but will still enable them to specify the sport or sports they wish to aid.

Teams taking spring vacation trips must finance them, because they are not included in the H.A.A. budget, Getchell explained. Crew has its own fund raising organization, and has decided to remain separate for the present. Track is testing opinion on a plan similar to the new combined solicitation.

The endowment fund will complement the fund raising program. It will be built up by the transfer of the excess funds of specific sports at the end of each year to the credit of the particular sport in the capital fund, and by direct donations.