THROWING THE HORSE-SHOE

At this moment there may be a centipede or a salamander which will some day dispute with man the mastery of the world. Thus says H. G. Wells in his chapter on evolution in the "Outline of History". Indeed, football's salamander has already come to light--the University of Pennsylvania has taken to horse-shoe pitching as a sublimation of the athletic complex.

Present-day psychology puts the ameboid sport in a fair way to become a dangerous rival of the gridiron. Only last year the question over the candidacy of coeds for football managerships and some athletic teams harassed the masculine element at Cornell. Fortunately, the new sport solves the problem, for a girl can throw the horse-shoe as well as any man. Faculties have long complained of the high costs of athletic teams but horse-shoe pitching Pennsylvanians supply their athletic needs at the nearest smithy. So enthusiastically have the students received the sport that Pennsylvania's "Big Quad" now tinkles with the merry clank of materialized good-luck. A freshman tournament later in the spring is to determine who is the "Champion Freshman Horse-Shoe Pitcher" at Pennsylvania, and keen competition for the title is expected.

But a word of caution! Professionalism menaces even the horse-shoe pitcher. There are two leagues: The National Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and the American Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and professional coaches are already in the field. The tournaments are apt to draw large crowds, and in Florida the intense excitement of the game was fatal to one of the spectators. It looks as if football, outstripped in the race for the favor of the fickle public, were doomed to an early demise. But alas! It also looks as if the colleges were simply going to exchange one unruly child for another.