BINGHAM LAUDS HOUSE SPORTS, GIVES PRIZE TO KIRKLAND PLAYERS

Presentation of the Straus Trophy for Intramural athletics and trophies in Tennis, Baseball, and Crew were made to Kirkland House at dinner last night. William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, handed the large silver urn to Walter E. Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, and Master of the House, after a short speech.

Bingham stressed the "system of change here and said that he was glad that the Houses were coming to use the A.A.'s facilities increasingly. He recalled the opposition which met the A.A.'s early "paternalistic" attempts to provide the necessary machinery for House sports.

Speaking of the "joy of winning" Bingham said he hoped he wouldn't live to see the day when it disappeared from House athletics. He prophesied that the University would have much better teams in the next two or three years and stated that "we have turned the corner in football."

This will be done, he said, with "football teams made of Harvard men who play football, rather than football players who are incidentally going to college."

Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, attributed Kirkland's success to efficient managing pointing to the record of not a single default in tennis this spring.

The Alexander Agassiz Cup, presented in memory of a man who rowed on a crew here with ex-President Charles W. Eliot, was given to David Tufts '37, president of the House Boat Club