The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-08

the detractors Of that system, toward
| the special development physically OF
the men who perhaps need that added
development least The inducements
of the training table are surely ar
ranged upon the side of leading great
er number to try to make" some
| team, The prospect Of college glory is
an incentive to that effort. but the
training table adds very materially to
that incentive, especially in the cases
| Of men who are working their way
through college, or who, from financial
| reasons, really cannot from their own
resources indulge in hearty meals.
But the abuse of the training table
enters as soon as the spirit OF the
thing is lost sight of and men are TAX
en- at prices lower than they should
be, or the period of time during which
the training table is continued is made
Unfortunately long, or the number of
men increased beyond reasonable
numbers. In such cases the charge Of
hiring athletes may well lie against
the arrangements, for the very essence
of such a charge may be found in fur
for which he gives his athletic services
to the organization. Many plausible
excuses have been made for long-con-
tinued training tables and for low pay
ments by persons taken to these ta-
bles, and from such excuses and mis-
taken ideas as to the real nature of
honest amateur sport a tendency-for-
tunately as yet only a tendency-has
grown up to- violate the ethics Of col
lege sport. For instance, man pre-
vious to his entering the sport may be
paying for his board in some other
way than by actual money payment.
He may be waiting on the table.
When he goes TO the training table,
what should be his status as to pay
ments? Another may be acting as
steward at some boarding-place pre-
vlous to his being called upon to go to
the training table. What, If anything,
should he pay? But these cases can be
met by investigation and settled with
out infringement Of the spirit Of the
law.
1.-THE actual amount of good roast
beef that a table of athletes will con-
sumo" writes Walter Camp in the
June Century, 'is something appalling
to the uninitiated. Three members of
a Yale football team once went to
Cambridge to watch a match between
Harvard and some other team. These
three men stopped at hotel for their
Among other things, the
spokesman of the party ordered three
portions of cold roast beef. But, sir
said the waiter, two portions will be
a great plenty for all three of you
The giant of the party looked up
blandly at the servant, and said, You
bring the three portions, and then
watch us eat it
when the writer was captain of
the team long before the days Of spe-
cial method in management, the eleven
were to play at Cambridge, and leav-
ing New Haven the afternoon of the
lay preceding the match, went to a
Boston hotel for dinner and the night.
Most of the men were readily collected
1t one or two large tables, but GER
ain rusher, being late, had seated
himself at o table in A distant part of
he dining-room, and he was told by
he manager to order his own dinner.
That boys dinner, and it is needless
% say that it was without wine, came |
o the extraordinary total of $13S5. He
vas quite able to pla ythe next day |
however. walter Camp in the Cen |
ury.