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...large to learn the method of training adopted by the Mott Haven team. The team as a whole has been doing good work during the past month, perhaps better than ever before. Every day, soon after four o'clock, the running and jumping squad begins exercise on the chest weights. This is followed by jumping, vaulting and light dumb-bell exercise. As a large development of muscle is not conducive to lightness and speed, none of the exercises are long continued. They are expected to give the men suppleness; and without strict training to prepare them to get into racing...
Amherst is getting its forces together to make a creditable showing on the diamond this year. There are eighteen candidates for the 'Varsity nine now in active training under Captain Phillips. The daily work includes batting practice in the old gym, and the usual course of exercise with chest weights, parallel and horizontal bars and running. Four batteries are also kept at regular work, giving the rest of the men good opportunities to bat as well as to keep themselves in trim. The work has thus far been steady, systematic and thorough, and well entered into by the candidates...
...novel gymnastic feat is to see how low you can place the horizontal bar and walk under it on tip-toe with the head and chest thrown back...
...have now been in training nea four months, and although their progress on the machines has been as rapid as is usual for freshman crews, there is one thing, and a most important thing, that they have not yet learned to do, that is to keep time at the chest-weights. This may seem a matter of slight consequence to the men; but they will learn that time at the chest-weights is fully as important as time at the machines. If a man cannot keep time in one case, he certainly cannot in the other. It is not inability...
...Rows too jerkily; - should try to make his work smoother. Fails to use his stretcher and is slow in coming back. When he does come back, is apt to slump. Should remember to keep his chest well...