Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-11
HARVARD WANTS
TO MUzzLE THE
DIAMOND GAME
Crews and Football EIevens TO
/ Have to Cut Out the
Slang
fly Latest NALL
ny HERBERT REED.

lnaIFtns GCaen and graduate alike frem
the baseball bench was foreshadomed
some time ago at the annual meeting
iof the National Collegiate Athletic AS.
ISOLATION. when both DIR. Nichols and
Dean Briggs strongly supported tho
new idea.
The radical departure will shock
many old timers who believe that
enough pep has already been ~.
moved from baseball An along the
line. however, there has been move.
ment against the professional coach -
held general on the day Of the
game. and indeed even against the nm.
salaried graduate who has been in tho
habit OF directing the play from the
bench. -
The captaincy Is now a heavier
burden than ever before, and ant 10
Aecome more so AT the same time
tnat the duty of running the game
mas been placed on the captain. there
mas been q movement IN the direction
CT barring all coaching. The Nnfional
Collegiate Athletic Association has
gone ON record In favor Of Regulating
even what players shall be allowed Is
talk and even what they should sav.
~ Is certain that this system viii
hardly make hit with the men who
mayed the game along I'M the early
J0s, many Of whom look upon MOI.
ern college baseball as borderlnr ~
the Gillette. Bad grammar means r6od
baseball as rule, said one Of fhe9e
oia-tlmefs today Il like TO hear fho
anird baseman calling to his pitcher.
You're workin' nice. II he said mice.
" I'D fire him off the. squad.G
Practically all Of the old-timers s..
lieye IN what Is known as etalkinr Il
up. and the man who swings under
the NY with the yell, n got IT. makes
bigger lift with the coach than the
CHAP who announces. Il have It a
small thing In many games. hut An.
parentfy big thing In baseball.
'That-a-boy" Is another slogan fh.s
seems 70 be doomed at Harvard and
otner institutions, and Il win be m.
teresting to learn just what its ban.
lsnment from the game WIN mean.
baseDali has always been 4 taking
game, and the best coaches nowaaaye
are working hard 10 get more an
into football Polo. as most n6ohIo
know, Is q game of bad language. an6
z the Harvard idea Is 10 be carried
put to its logical conclusion some man
VIII have to 60 into the game eoniD.
PED with a gag. ~
Ever hear the coxsWain oaIIlnr ~
his crew. Yes7 Well. ia 6fef(S
strong stuff And there a NOT tn,,ch
iouot that It helps to disconcerf 4 Fl.
raj crew that happens to be at ali sen. \
iitiye. - -. ss'''s
Muzzling a nine. or eleven or An
light, doubtless Will make for a high.
Z ideal in sport. but there are fhosa
sho doubt Ii 1t will make for eff
iency. =
Perhaps the most curious .aIkers an
ne field are Carlisle Indians. Carl
landefs, who coached al Carlisle
Fhile Warner was at Cornell. save he
FEVER could tell when his football
cam would develop into an eleven 81
hatterers and when ii would relapse
1to stolid silence. However. the
indians played better football when
hey talked than when they were sE.
mt and that Is apt to be true or any
sam today. The unwrittan history of
olege sport Is full OF the sayings Of
ne star athletes sayings that the
Id.timer stoutly believes had 4 deal
DO with the outcome Of the game
In the old days of football most Of
lie talk consisted Of what has come
De known as trough stuff" which
as been largely discarded. but q Ger.
I'm amount Of talk. and sery useful
Tx, remains Two OF the best ends
! the country in the ninaties made
abit Of betting on downfield work.
lie winner being the man who made
70 tackle incidentally. the system
orked well.
But to get back to coaching In base
I'll from the college bench. Too oft.
professionals forgot that their men
ere not Of big league calibre and
ere unable to carry out such orders
Hit the first ball" or "Wait him
It, Perhaps an outfeIder OF the old
Iys, such as Cote or Poole of Yale.
Itman OF Princeton, Mount Pleasant
Carlisle, or one of the numerous
ars turned out at the University Of
inois, might have been able to fol
W such instructions, but the. pres
It batch would find il extremely diff.
:ult, fear
Talking on the field, so long as II
es not degenerate into mere chat
r, has the sanction of most amateur
well as professional coaches, and
ii be very hard to eradicate, even
Harvard, whence so much impetus
ward ideals in sport has come.
However, if the Crimson is looking
the extreme of politeness In col
&c baseball, it might well investi-
te the system in vogue at a GER
IN famous New England school AT
is institution even the organized
eering is carefully marked out, and
len the home team begins to find
? ball there are cries OF Batting
ly, batting rally" but no one in the
md is allowed to go it alone in the
liter of encouraging the team.
As at many of the eastern colleges.
s school is always careful to ap
Iud good plays by opponents. but
: carried the maffaP RI or1ah q