New-York tribune., 1909-02-15
COMMENT GOIF& HOCKEY LAWN TENNIS &BOWIING

leges, where the second nine is almost as strong
as the first If the theory OF play and not work is
TO be carried out. It strikes that the Harvard
scheoule Is quite long enough TO give the men al
the practice and all the play they need, without
running the chance OF interfering with their col
ieg1ate work The reduction OF the number OF
games beyond certain limit. say twenty, might
seriously Jeopardize the success of team. as sew
eral games likely to be cancelled account
OF rain, a wet diamond. but otherwise a nine
should not be handicapped III playing against
team with longer schedule. for the reason that
there is quite much II not more danger in giving
the men too much to do too little. All things
being equal, would prefer 10 follow the fortunes
Of the team with twenty-three games scattered
over period of less than three months than the
team with thirty-fve.
Captain Fish of the Harvard football team did
well. In my opinion, TO drop the Carlisle Indians
for Brown, inasmuch choice had to be mace
between the two elevens for the only date left on
the Harvard schedule. The Indians not anna
teurs in the true sense of the word. and their
actions the field in some games last year were
not Of kind to command respect The Indians
have always been a big wing card at Cambridge
but fortunately this was not considered. II II
was it did carry enough weight TO lead Captain
Fish and the football authorities 10 drop Brown In
preference.
II Columbia puts a varsity and freshman crew
on the water this year It will be after much threat
ening much persuasion and one might even say
much coercion. Either one crew or the other has
been in trouble since college opened last fall First
il was lack Of funds, then Il was lack of candf-
dates, It is lack of funds again-at least for
the freshmen The first trouble was overcome by
the threat OF PAY the debts crew." A little
persuasion was used the debts were paid. and
Scyna was passed Then came the threat. Rice
viii resign If more candidates don't report for
practice More persuasion and a little coercion,
and enough men reported TO pass Charybdis safely.
Now that both scyIla and Charybdis are behind
tho .lf14ec E1rOF1G
obstacle will loom UP. Columbia had good crew
last year. and was beaten by only narrow mar
gin at Poughkeepsie in desperate finish with
Syracuse That should have been incentive enough
for the undergraduates, without the need OF prod
ding. Perhaps after all, Columbia wants win
ming crew for a change to awake the proper en-
thusasm
Foster Sanford, OF Yale, who once coached the
Columbia football team. and with marked success
so far as winning games concerned. will not
agree with the suggestion that Columbia needs
winning 1 once overheard him say that II
was poor policy to turn out q winning team at
Columbia, for the reason that, instead Of arousng
fresh interest bringing out more candidates 1t
had the opposite effect. But everything else aside.
Columbia has winning basketball team this year.
1t don't know what defeat Is
The Brown baseball team without Nourse will be
sadly weakened this clever pitcher is one of the
best in the college world, IN my opinion. Evidently
college work is not always suoserVlent 10 coIlese
sports even with a athlete, some would
have us believe It is hoped for the sake of the
Brown nine that Nourse will be able to find enough
time from his studies TO play little baseball
Edmund Lamy has few if any equals on the steel
blades He has more skating titles this winter
than cat has lives. His remarkable success is
due primarily TO his speed, but his keen judgment
of pace and constant TO keep in condition
count also TO a large degree
The horse was hailed, the automobile was
crowned the dog had his day, and now comes the
motor boat. Three weeks ego wanted an auto
mobile; last week 1 was wishing for a Boston ter
rier; this week viii be coveting speed launch
Some ,ersors are hard to satisfy HERBERT.