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Colby University of Waterville, Me., will have a professional coach this year for their ball nine...
...strength of a team lies in its "battery" and its ability to hit good pitching. This ability can never be learned from an amateur no matter how faithfully the nine may practice. It is difficult to see why there should be any objection to a trainer who could coach the nine in batting and give them the advantages of good pitching. Gymnasiums have their directors and "crews" their coaches; why not the nine? If a man began the study of the classics or in fact any branch of learning unaided by an instructor, he would soon come to a stop...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-It is understood that the decision of the athletic committee in the matter of a coach for the nine, will be that the nine shall have no trainer and that they will go still further and say that the nine shall not play with any nine that has had a professional trainer. This certainly looks like taking the bull by the horns in earnest, and the committee have certainly taken a decided step. It is understood however that this was the unanimous decision of the convention in regard to athletics, held in New York during the holidays...
...education. We do not know that the commission of any professional or dishonorable acts has been imputed to Mr. Ward, nor that otherwise his standing as a gentleman has bebn impugned. Doubtless many of the other cases named are much of the same sort. The case of Mr. Bancroft, coach of the Harvard crews, is decidedly inapt for the Times' argument. Why Mr. Bancroft engaged in instructing Harvard students in one branch of athletics, should be pursuing any less respectable calling than Dr. Sargent engaged in instructing the same students in another branch it is difficult to see. Surely...
...meet other shells on the river. Many brushes take place with the class crews, and sometimes with the Union and other crews from Boston rowing on the "basin," all of which serve to show the defects of the individual members and of the crew as a whole to the coach sitting in the stern. The better the crew our eight chances to meet in this way, the more practice they derive from the spurt. Then the June regattas of the Union club are useful whenever they can get anything to match our eight. When the last of June comes...