Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

deuce not less than seven times. This
made 1t two sets all. Larned started
at 2I. The Englishman then made 1t
t2-2 and followed this up to the dismay
Of the onlookers by taking the fifth game
against the American service, which lead.
as In the former set, he managed to keep
to the end and thus he obtained the
match, the last game being love game.
The fact that Cornell defeated the first
| eight Of Yale at Lake Cayuga and the
Harvard Varsity eight on the Charles
| has taken some of the edge off the New
London contest. For all that, much in
| terest is centering on the showing that
! Yale will make under the new regime
There have been troubles at New Haven.
which were only to be expected from any
| combination. But Yale crews. varsity
| and freshmen, have made advances. ana,
| While the opinion of rowing sharps de-
cidedly favors Harvard to win, there is
general feeling that Yale will make a
| better showing than for some years ana
] that she is on the right track in develop
| ing rowing talent at New Haven anu
should eventually come back to the point
| where the race at New London was not
| as it has been for the last several years,
! a foregone conclusion that 1t would De a
victory for Harvard. AS to the foush-
| keepse race. there never was such an
opportunity for speculation upon results
| Syracuse won last year, but this spring
| was almost outclassed in the American
| Henley in Philadelphia. Penn defeated
Annapolis only to go back later. The
work of Cornell, as stated above, cou-
| pied with these two forecasts. gives
Courtney's crew the strongest backing.
The University of Washington made
fine showing last year and this year has
run away from everything on the Pa
cific coast. Rice. at Columbia, is said to
be pretty well satisfied with the develop
ment of his boat. Hence, altogether,
that regatta on the Hudson promises the
r-f fy,for fry-y ~
the rowing critics from far and wide.
\ while ago, Rice the Columbia crew
coach, was accused of copying Courtney
OF Cornell, because he was not in favor
of racing crews to death and there was
quite little jealousy stirred up. Rice
is reported to have spoken as follows:
II have been coaching twenty-five years.
and. while | don't profess to know any
thing. l think it is too late now to start
mimicking Courtney'S policies. Column
bias crews will work lightly simply be-
cause they cannot stand heavier sched-
ule." And this suggests that 1t is too
much the fashion here to accuse one
coach of copying another, especially in
crew instruction. Furthermore, there is
a tendency to stir up bad feeling among
coaches by what is really unfair COM
ment. Jealousy of this nature is no part
of amateur sport. and it engenders
spirit among the contestants themselves
that is SO foreign to the friendly though
earnest rivalry that should prevail that
II is the duty OF every one interested to
discountenance it.
Corncil's wonderful work under Coach
Moakley made a runaway Of the inter-
collegiate athletic championship in the
Harvard stadium The Ithacan team
scored no less than 43ls points. Penn
second with 81. The Michigan team did
remarkable work. securing third place
with y20H points and very nearly tying
Dive l-.,Nl IL, frS
of the meet was the still further lowering
of records. Two of the Cornell men were
the heroes of the occasion-Hofnire ran
the two-nile in minutes % 40 seconds
and Caldwell shaded the record in the
half-mile by covering 1t in 1 minute 50 rs
seconds, upsetting John Paul Jones rec
ord by two-fifths Of second. It was
killing finish between Caldwell of Cor
nell, Lrown of Yale and Meredith OF
Penn. When the final sprint on the home
stretch came Brown was in the lead with
Meredith following and Caldwell ON the
outside just behind these two. A little
over 200 yards from home Caldwell set
sail, and, passing Meredith, went after
Brown The two men, who are known as
having the best sprint In the country at
the end of a half mile. came down the
straight as though they were running a
hundred Ten yards from the tape CAD,
enough left to just beat him out, Mere
dith getting third.
Rather an interesting sdelight on the
development of athletics in Germany is
the dispatch from Berlin from kraenz-
lein, in which he says:
college men are too fond Of beer and
restaurants to give any time to the work
of training as athletes. Even If they
should change their habits, as some of
them have promised to do, We cannot
expect such good material In the short
time lett in which to get them in condi-
ton for the contests.
with the object of stirring up interest
in the games throughout the empire, we
have been holding fortnight.s course
of instruction in six central cities Each
a trained athlete. To these centers men
have come who are the hope OF interest
ed communities. all anxious to learn the
rudiments of training.
next week. Six hundred entrants will
be tried out, and from these few will
be selected. There will be a fortnight's
work in Berlin under my supervision.
after which there will be similar try
outs at Cologne, Hamburg and Nurem-
berg"
There are some things to be said for
our colleges in this country yet, in view
of this.
Meantime we shall e able to tell
something about how AL COPELAND is
coming on with his AUSTRIAN athletes.
as there is dual track and ned meet
between Austria and Hungary at Buda-
pest July IL. which formerly has been
an easy win for Hungary. COPELAND has
always been good trainer, and was at
Yale at the time when the joint teams
of Yale and Harvard went over and
competed with oxford and Cambridge.
and, owing to the sickness of Burke of
Harvard, lost by one event.
Guy Nickalls, the Yale rowing coach,
is certainly a remarkable instance Of
the continuation of athletic ability,
power and physique well into middle
life His record as an oarsman is some
thing phenomenal, and he is still quite
able to keep up his reputation there
He is a class swimmer can do credit
able work on the track, is good whip.
and, altogether, one Of the best all
around men.
Copyright 1914. by Otis F. Woody