For Fair Play

Germans, recalling how he took chemical patents from them as Alien Property Custodian during the War, and later exploited them as head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly apt exponent of the spirit of Fair Play. But affable "Pat" Garvan is a sportsman as well as a patriot. Last week he made two moves toward an end which he thinks important: transfusing the spirit of Fair Play from U. S. sport to U. S. business.

One move was to donate to Yale University, already the recipient from him of enormously valuable Americana, one of the world's finest collections of sporting art. It includes Thomas Eakins' famed prizefight picture, Taking the Count; Frederick Remington's picture of an early football game; a pictorial history of baseball since the Civil War; hundreds of prints, statues. Donor Garvan named it the Whitney Collection, in honor of two late famed Yale sportsmen, Harry Payne Whitney and his brother Payne.

Move No. 2 was to reveal some details of a plan, suggested by school coaches, for promoting Fair Play through competitive sports in U. S. schools. Said he:

"For 15 years these coaches have been summer visitors ... at my Adirondack camp where they have trained boys in both competitive and health exercises. One result is competent medical opinion that if we can give school children spiked running shoes and a place to practice . . . 80% of leg troubles will be straightened out. . . . Simple Delsarte exercises will do much the same thing for the body above the waist line. . . . They will learn the lessons of fairness of the sports field. I think a generation so trained will carry into business some moral principles. . . ."

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