The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-17
Comment AhoM Outdoor
Amerlca
CANNED
BY cASPAR WHITNEY.

HE only unhappy incident of the spring season is Yales return toll
professional coaching for her baseball The reason for doing &, as
frankly Stated by the captain OF the team. is an extra effort TO win
a baseball Championship at New Haven, r to at least defeat Harvard
That's the curse of college athletics; that placing of he mere winning above
an other considerations and the gate receipts and the professional coach
are Its apettors When our college ia culues TN committees teach lad in
s) that just IS much fun and benefit and glory comes out of baseball that
st developed to the ultimate degree Of excellence, then they will evnce some
comprehension of undergraduate aHe uc-physcal equfrement and we shall
LAY play IN the amateur basis of sport for sports sake. college teams do
not reach the standard of professionals and they never will, n matter how
muc professional coaching they receive. 1t isn't that 1 inveigh against the
professional in his own legitimate field; it is hat the employment of a pro-
fes %iona1l coach at once changes thu sprit of the men and the atmosphere Of
college ball it puts h desire to win as the SOLE raison detre of thu teams
ton for the university. Yale car hardly BE criticized for returning o pro-
iesslonsI cocachtng, sine her chief rvais also employ them and It's asking a
grat zeal of boys to stand steady TO a principle in the face of defeat by
fivais WI are violating hat very principle with no repdmand
gentlemen, sticking to principle, lin spite OF he'll anu high vaterp us worth WORTH
more to you than mere winning If a game; sticking % principle, lighting for
it is a garne-the greatest game nal plays Try it.
Some day somebody in the college world win have the nerve to step
forth and fight FOR a principle ever if he fights ii fight alone Meanwhile
we are developing canned baseball at u colleges. If you don't believe it,
watch the next Yale game n see every batter as re goes the plate take
his instructions from Lush, the profes sdonaI coach. The professional coach
in college baseball is destroying the initiative of the batter.
And speaking of men who fight fol a principle reminds me of the George
more than a boat shouse; ii is a nenoria1 to George a Adee' than whom
10 man did more for Yale, and who had the principle and the courage to
fight for a worthy object regardless Of cost.
CUT OUT THE CRAFT.
r NOTE with pleasure that the several emtwhfe warning automobile associa-
tons have settled their differences and agreed upon a reorganization tol
control racing 1t is quMe right the automobile manufacturers should
have a n important, If rot a controlling voice in such government because it is
the racing and the endurance tests which mark the progress Of he American
manufacturers product While offering my congratulations, I wish also to-
add that if the manufacturers would get together and stop the graft Of the
as much for the sale of their machine as through he racing agreement they
have lone for its trying out AT present the owner of an automobile is buncoed
garage. 1t is the supply shops who sednce the chauffeur, n III manufac-
omrissdons, etessq quite IS easily a they hav handled the racing situation
and with much credit to Themselves
MARATHON MANIA.
Y< THE Marathon craze continues We shall have to inoculate the A. AL u.
4 with an English bacillus AS usual we are running the thing into the
ground What is at bst a freak event, only justified N sentimental
grounds acoympie games, for instance has been made an everyday amuse-
not then, unless he has undergone a physical examination To allow school,
boys to enter these longdhtance races is riminal-cohers.