The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

sports. Baseball comes out about even,
track athletics result in a slight loss and
rowing in heavy deficit. for there are no
receipts whatever to help pay the large
expenses connected with the University
Boat Club. There are between 400 and
soc students in regular training for rowing
during the season AS many as thirty
two eight-oar crews were practicing on
the Charles river the other day, In addition
to number of singles. pairs and fours.
This is the largest number Of crews ever
In practice at one time at single college
iE America. In addition TO the University
Boathouse there is a second boathouse,
presented by Mr.. George Walker Weld. for
the use chiefly of students not engaged
in regular crews, which is the headquar-
tiers of the Weld Boat Club; while its
friendly rival in stimulating interest in
rowing, the Newell Boat Club uses the old
varsity boathouse.
The football season is now over, and
the work of the crews viii be confined TO
tank and gymnasium work for several
months, but athletic expenses will go on
and the graduate managers staff of clerks,
janitors and caretakers of grounds will
continue busy, to say nothing of the track
teams and baseball practice.
In addition to the varsity and class
baseball teams there will soon be prac-
ticing eighteen or twenty scrub mines,
which compete with each other for the
Letter cups, which mark the scrub cham
picnships. From these teams are selected
players for the class mines, from which are
chosen players for the varsity team.
ba<. will he neil HI
from the baseball games, il will not be
sufficient to pay all the expenses. The
track athletics also make heavy cali
for which small returns. except in glory,
will be received.
SYSTEMATIC METHODS.
The same watchful care and thorough
system which characterizes the supervi-
sion of athletic expenses and receipts at
Harvard marks the treatment of the ath-
letes themselves by the university. Upon
entering the university each student is
entitled to an examination by the
director of the gymnasium, in which his
physical proportions are measured. his
strength tested, his heart and lungs ex-
amined and information solicited con-
corning his general health and inherited
cured special order of appropriate ex-
ercises is made out for each student with
specifications of the movements and APP
paratus which he may best use. After
working on this prescription for three or
six months the student is entitled to an
other examination, by which results of his
work are ascertained and the director en-
abled to make a further prescription. No
student is permitted TO take part in ath-
letic contests without a special physical
examination by the director of the GYM
nasium and his permission so to do.
Thanks to the control by the athletic
committee, there is not the slightest tinge
of professionalism in athletics at Har-
ward. The travelling expenses of members
of the teams are paid by the committee.
| which also furnishes uniforms, sweaters
and so forth to the members of the Var
| sity squads. The committee also provides
| a special training table, but the student
| has to pay the same amount he is in the
| habit of paying under ordinary conditions
| for his board.
In former days there Were "junkets" of
all kinds. but now only players and bona
fide substitutes whose hard work, other
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| reward, accompany the eleven to New Ha-
| ven, Philadelphia or West Point the track
| teams to New Haven or Mott Haven, the
| nine to New Haven, Philadelphia or
Princeton. and the crews to New London.
| Every expense nowadays is accounted for
| and paid only on formal voucher submit
! ted for approval and payment by the un-
| dergraduate managers of the several or
| CARNATIONS to the graduate manager.
| AS rule these undergraduate managers
furnish the material from which is drawn
| each year the paid graduate manager, who
this year is Eliot Spalding, 1900. His Of
flee, at IS Gray's Hall, has been g. busy
place up to to-day, with applications for
| the big football games TO be cared for;
but from now out it will drop back into
| the regular decorum and routine BETTING
the financial and business department of
such a large institution as the combined
/ athletic interests of the university