Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-30
Sporting Gossip Of the Day
No Change in U. of P. Rowing
Training--Basketball Champion
ship UndeCided-=Yale ''Y"==NOtes

New York, March 2s-Whatever may
be the training customs in English
athletics it is evident that Vivian
Nickalls, the new crew coach at the
University of Pennsylvania, does not
intend to depart radically from meth
DDS in vogue at Pennsylvania in past
years. 1t has been frequently stated
abroad that the English amateur ath-
lete and oarsman does not train with
the. same care or nervousness that is
observed in college athletic circles in
this country. 1t is explained therefore
that the success of the American ath-
1ete is due to the fact that he makes
a business of what is viewed abroad
as play or recreation.
Coach Nickalls does not apparently
share these views or at least believes
in the proverb When thou art at
Rome do as they do at Rome" He has
laid down as strict set of rules and
instructions to govern the crew candl-
dates as Charles Courtney or Jim Rice
could prepare. The printed rules COW
er the entire working hours of the
oarsmen and even the diet of the men
is outlined. Permission can be gained
only from Nickals should it be deem
ed necessary to temporarily break
these rules, which are in part as fol-
lows:
"Hours-Bed 1890; rise in morning,
$50; breakfast, SIS; lunch 1; dinner,
7.30; (while on the river, earlier II pos
sible). Every man must run before
breakfast. the distance to be prescrib-
ed by the coach. Those living in col
lege must get together and run on the
track if possible. Those living at
home must get out and run on the
road.
mo smoking allowed on any pre-
text whatever. Chewing of gum is also
deprecated. Lemonade, barley water,
tea and coffee may be used for drinks,
but use of sugar in moderation. Don't
drink water with ice in it, and don't
drink milk. Ice cream after meals may
be eaten but once day. Don't eat
pork, veal, duck, goose. wild fowl, oys-
tiers, crabs Holsters or any shell fish.
Don't eat too much bread. Chew your
food we'll and eat slowly.
IF you wish to break any of these
rules apply to the coach; i. e., you
might want to so to a dinner; he will
give you leave, but don't go without
leave Don't dance. If you are sick,
tell the coach. If any of these rules
are broken by anyone, whoever, he
may be, and it comes to the coach's
notice. that man will be discharged
from the rowing squad. You are on
| your honor Be true to yourself and
remember always that if you do not
| obey these rules you are hurting not
only your self-respect but every mem
| Der of the crew of which you are a
| part"
1t is more or less of a coincidence
/ that the publication of these training
, rules as laid down by Nickalls should
be made the day on which Oxford and
Cambridge meet in their annual boat
race on the Thames. Niekalls gained
his initial reputation as an oarsman
while at oxford and in after years
| coached the Varsity crews that rowed
against the Light Blue He was with
hic brother Guy Nickalls, now coach
at Yale one of the best oarsmen ever
developed at oxford during the peri
cd of the inter- Varsity races which
extends back to 1s4l.
Since the initial race that year the
eight-oared crews of oxford and Cam
bridge have met seventy times. On the
eve CT the list race of the series the
score shows that oxford has won SO
races; Cambridge go, while the race
of 1877 resulted in a dead heat. The
course is IA miles and the best time
ism 29s made by oxford in 1911. Amer
lean college regatta records do not
touch these figures for the intercollegi-
ate regratta record made by Cornell
in 1901 is ism SO 1-5s, for four miles,
while the best time for the Harvard
Yale regatta was made by Yale crew
of 1883 when the Blue won the 4-mile
race in pom los. That the Thames
course is faster than the New London
stretch would appear to be indicated
by the fact that the Harvard crew of
1906 was defeated by Cambridge by
two lengths in ION 1ss, on Sept of
that year, after Harvard won from
Yale in four-mile race at New Lon
den by a margin of nine seconds in
23m. Is. June % of the same year.
Another intercollegiate basketball
season has closed with the champion
ship five undetermined. In the east the
race of the intercollegiate League,
consisting of six of the leading col
leges of the section, ended with CO.
lumbia and Cornell tied for first place.
Each team won eight and lost two
games Yale was third with six games
won and four lost. Princeton, Penn
sylvania and Dartmouth followed in
the order named. Because of faculty
restrictions no attempt was made to
play off the tie for first place, although
both Cornell and Columbia players and
undergraduates were eager TO see the
question of supremacy. settled.
In the middle west the Conference
race championship was won in i'm
pressive style by the University of
Wisconsin five, which played the H.
game schedule without meeting de-
feat. OF the nine college teams engag-
ed in the titular tournament Ohio state
finished second, Illinois third and Chi
cago fourth. Northwestern, Minneso-
ia, Purdue. Iowa and Indiana complet-
ed the order of final standing. The
Wisconsin team apparently outclass-
ed the other Conference fives and the
supporters of the Badger team would
have been willing to back the combi-
nation against the winner of the east
ern tournament had such an intersec-
tional contest been possible.