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...coaching, and they were to meet a crew whose little training had been exclusively devoted to four-mile pulls, and which was, therefore, unqualified, other things being equal, to cope successfully with men whose strong point was a mile and a half spurt. Nevertheless, this crew, with their professional trainer and his methods, was beaten by Columbia. She, in her turn, was disastrously defeated in a race covering her pet distance on the Thames by Harvard. This places the university at about the bottom of the list in college boating...
...sports will be exceedingly close this year, and every effort must be made to retain the emblem which we have held for so many years, it seems a good time for training more carefully than heretofore a team for this event. We can of course have no regular trainer for this purpose, but some student might be selected to captain the team or have general charge of it, in whose hands the selection of the team could be placed. With our many facilities for indoor training it seems humiliating to be beaten in this event by smaller colleges with fewer...
...good as last year. All these events need long and careful preparation and constant practice. We are therefore much surprised that the Athletic Association has not taken any steps as yet in regard to helping and urging on those interested in these events. Of course a trainer, if we had one, would do much of this work and would take much trouble off the hands of the Athletic Association. But 'till we get one the Association must do a great deal of tiresome work in getting men to train. As far as we know, though there are several gentlemen...
...regard to a professional trainer nothing has been decided as yet, but both Matthews of the Athletics and Hines of Providence have been taken of. Base-ball interest is very quiet; no very great interest is felt because, probably, of the poor showing last year...
...Harvard Faculty Committee is beginning to see the folly of its raid against playing with professionals. After having given athletics a good set-back by driving off James Robinson, they deprived the nine of a trainer. Yet they have a professional gymnast in charge of the gymnasium, a professional instructor in sparring and fencing, and allow the nine to play under professional rules, with a professional ball and under professional umpires. [N. Y. Clipper...