New-York tribune., 1909-03-01
COMMENT GOLF LAWN TENNIS BOWLING OTHER SPORTS

Of ice perhaps, to develop that team play so nee
essary 10 success Yale worked hard from a poor
beginning 10 turn out winning seven. but the
champions Of last year were also badly handi-
capped by the lack Of practice Dartmouth de-
serves almost equal credit with Harvard, and only
lost the championship BY a single goal
Billy Lush Is back at Yale and that means that
Yales one seasons trial OF graduate coaching vas
suggested in this column that Tad Jones. who
had been named as head coach. might resign. and
that Captain Fred Murphy would 60 back 10 the
professional system Of coaching in an effort to win
e baseball championship at New Haven. or at least
defeat Harvard There IS R feeling at Yale that
something must be done halt the Crimson forces
and # is little wonder that Captain Murphy Is IN
willing 10 continue experiment that, while
theoretically good one, is 10 a large extent I'm
practicable under the conditions that obtain in
baseball Some Of the Ills which have grown up
IN the college athletic world be traced directly
TO professional coaching. A coach has reputation
TO make or 10 hold. and a rule success is meas
Ured By his ability to out q winning To
secure this END many professional coaches have not
hestated 10 go out and look for material If
teraI vas not at hand, and out OF this the evil Of
proseIytizng grew and fourished at many colleges
The coach was not erdreIy responsible, however,
and there are means of regulation without cutting
off the proper instruction which the whole only
a professional give IN baseball When Yale
instituted graduate coaching last year It felt
tnat long step had been taken in the right direc-
ton The reforIners may think that the return Of
Lush means step backward. but this does not
follow Yale is fortunat0 in having a Walter Camp
10 act as advisory coach and in Captain Muir
ply. 20 direct the policy Of the team This rob
professional coaching Of It's chief terrors. but IN
sures 70 the players the best instruction. which
except in rare cases. IS said before. only e pro-
fessicnai. particularly men like Lush and E5 Walsh
csn give.
A few DAYS ago Nourze. one - the best pitchers
IN the college world and of the best ever &C.
veIoped at Brown. announced that ns would
he able 10 play baseball this year on sCcount Of
the press Of college work. On top Of this comes
the announcement from Pennsylvania that Harry
Dean, captain Of the varsity feels callsd on
TO resign because his hours this year
ranged that it would he impossible for him TO come
ont for the crew Without losing his degree Once
more the Calamity James must acknowledge that
athletics are not necessarily the alpha AND omega
OF ell college and that sacrifices can - made
Il is hoped that Dean may re he 10 hold his seat
n the shell without taking chance Of losing his
degree. Men Of his stamp can I'll be spared
After losing five Of the strongest PLAYERS on the
nine IN en effort 70 eradicate the summer baseball
evil and professionalism, Pennsylvania is now
having internal trouble over the election Of cap
tain Looks bad for the nine
7 j. rather surprising that the Cc1urha crew
management has not been flooded with checks for
$500 70 pay for the new shell IN which the varsity
crew will row victory in the intercollegiate re
gar1a AZ Poughkeepsie next June. II IS almost
shocking that the honor OF having ones name IN
gilt letters along the bow winning shell should
b heId SO chezplv. feel tempted 10 irlrnortaze
r77-eeIF lust for rhA sake Of -ha bargain But no,
that would not Re fair 70 some poor but worthy
son OF Columbia
Pr,nce-on's new advisory committee on football
made happy selection. n M opinion, in naming
= ? Mccormick as coach Of the eleven next fall
Mccormick was captain Of the Princeton team n
1901 and well deserved his place al fulback on the
All-Ar2ertcan eleven He was q forceful leader and
one Of the best plunging hacks ever saw. The
Tigers have made : good start.
t Is cause fc- congratula-ion that tce executive
COMMITTEES q the United States Golf Association
has framed new amateur rule. L Is only neoes-
ssr 70 enforce i 10 free the sport entirely from
the near amateur who does far more harm than
The professional 50 far golf or any other sport
Is concerned 7 IS distinct improvement over the
rI5 r7J1e several points concerning which there
was mora or less misunderstanding have been
cleared up
-77srls largely 70 Heyniger. Princeton has Ton
the so-,aued baseball championship two years IN
succession but this year the star pitcher has been
declared ineligible on account OF conditions in his
studies Princeton without Heyniger may oe
ltlzened n Pittsburz without wagner, or TO the
New York Giants without Nattv. HEfSbbRi-