Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-13

New Haven, Feb. 12.-OYer 100 men are hard at work in the rowing tank, at building-up exercises in the gym, and in short runs out of doors, in the winter practice for the university crew Almost as many first year men are out as candidates for the freshman crew. And so, at the outset of the new term, and the beginning of the seasons row ing, there is a lot of crew spirit in the atmosphere. It's a time of year. of course that is drudgery with the oars men, but it's also a time when Yale men take new brace, remind them selves that another chance is fresh be- fore them, and go in with hope in their hearts of doing up" Harvard at last. It is so every spring in New Haven, and it is more so this year get down to the boathouse and launch their shells in the Quinnipiac.
 Of course. the overthrow of the old coaching regime and the coming of Armstrong, Nickalls and Giannini give the biggest impetus to rowing. The right kind of coaching is about all that any Yale squad needs. With confi- dence in coaches and captain, any Yaie squad, these days, is willing to work it's individual heads off to got back to the old rowing standards.
 Head Coach Armstrong is clear-cut in his statement of plans. 'HThere will be no delay of effort" he told the crew squad, mo postponements of decision in the work laid out for this crew, In other words, we are all in accord as to what is to be done and when to do 1t. You must have the same faith we have that what we are teaching you will win"
 For the Princeton Cornell race in the latter part of May, the main race will be kept in mind, but every effort will be put forward to win the midseason race that does not interfere with the training of the crew for the four mile.
 In view of the agitation that summer baseball is making among the colleges and the prominence 1t has been given in discussion during the past few weeks at Yale, the News having pub lisbed the opinions mostly favorable, of a large number of captains from the colleges of the east. the view that President Hadley takes is noteworthy and It Is sane as well. President Had ley would leave to the individual inSti- tuition the right to settle the question of whether the members of it's baseball team should play in the summer for compensation. Between institutions the question should be of standards of playing and of ideals of sport which apparently, the president, like many others, does not believe summer ball playing, say as a means or earning one'S college expenses, will seriously initiate against. If two colleges should llnQ I0enSS1NeS OH OppOSllS SaQ6S Ol the fence in regard to summer ball, 1t would not mean, then, that playing would have to be suspended between them. It would mean that in sports manlike conduct the summer playing men would have to measure up to the standards of the absolute amateur. It is a solution that is constructive, and points the way to a removal of some things that in the past in many places, but very rarely in Yale, one is proud to say. have cast rather a cloud on this major sport.
 And if the accommodating criticisms of the athletic spirit in colleges gener- ally are to be answered and fought down, there must be some standards definitely set. Yale, her graduates and her students feel has been doing her part in uplifting the morale of college athletics. Yale athletics are growing cleaner every year. Captain Ketcham is the type of man that Yale wants to lead her teams, a, man who advocated doing away with football coaching from the side lines, refused t9 let his men even write their views for the newspapers, and discountenanced all sIugging on the field. Harvard and Princeton cooperate. Yale would rather lose a fairly fought out game any time than win by underhanded strategem and the same is true of them. The conduct of the Yale nine on the diamond is sometimes in quite glaring contrast to the coaching meth ods and wordy team support of visit ing hines. And it's very often inter estiifg to see how those teams rise te the occasion and to the Yale standard.
 It really seems to be the smaller college that deserves these shafts of criticism against unfair sport, but it is certainly up to the larger colleges and universities to set up the ideal And Yale men believe that this is the spirit of her athletic life, the great thing. come success or failure with her rivals.