ON THE CAM AND THE ISIS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16749, 2 January 1915, Page 13

ON THE CAM AND THE ISIS.

Sport at the Universities, at all events in a competitive sense, is dead. Almost without exception athletes of every branch have been claimed by the Officers' Training Corps. At both Oxford and Cambridge khaki is the only wear, and what little sport is indulged in is regarded merely as an aid to fitness in the military sense. There have beon rumours that tho Inter-’Varsity football matches under both codes, ltugby and Soccer, would take place after all, but there is not tho remotest i banco of either being played. Football, in fact, is not iu an organised state, for whilst some of the public ii bools have been played, most of the matches have been between _ scratch Jdes. Rowing is being carried on as far as possible. At Oxford wet bobs have usually three afternoons a week free from 0.T.0. training. At Cambridge there hardly seems the same C v/i!’tica, but the river has all its old J >.*cination for the men who can spare u\ hour or so from their military duties. As In rowing, athletics are regarded only as a form, of exercise. A little ' ore enterprise has been shown by the Cantab, and whilst tho Freshmen’s sports aro still being held in abeyance, it is likely that some inter-collcgiate events will bo arranged.