The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28

New YOrk, March Z8-WnaLet0r 1I1oy be the training customs in English athletics it is evident that Vivian Nicka1ls, the new crew coach at the lJniv ersity of Pennsylvania, does not intend to- depart radically from methods in vogue at Pennsylvania in past years. It has been frequently stated abroad that the English amateur athletic and oarsnan, does not train with the same care or rig orousness that is observed in college athletic circles in this country. It is explain ed therefore that the success of the American athlete is due to the fact that he makes a business Of what is viewed abroad as play or recreation.
 Coach Nickal1ss does not apparently share these views or at least believes in the proberb, When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome He has laid down as strict a set of rules and instructions to govern the crew tcandidates as Charles Courtney or Jim Rice could prepare. The printed rules cover the entire working hours l of the oarsmen and even the diet of l the men Is outlined Permission can be gained from Nickalls. should it be deemed necessary to temporarily break these rules, which are in part as follows: Hours-Bed o:3o: rise in morning, f7:3o; breakfast, s:15; lunch, 1; dinner. z: 30 s(while on the river, earlier if poss-
 fb1e). Every man must run before breakfast, the distance to be prescribed I by the coach. Those living in college
 must get together and run on the track
 if possible. Those living at home must
 set out and run on the road.
 No smoking allowed on any pretext
 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 a day.
 Don't eat pork veal, duck, goose, wild fowl, oysters. crabs. lobsters or tany shell fish. Don't eat too much
 bread Chew your food well and eat slowly.
 eff you wish to break any of these Irules apply to the coach; | e., you might want to go to a dinner55 he will give you leave, but don't go without leave Don't dance If you are sick. 1 tell the coach.''
 tIf any of these rules are broken by anyone, whoever he may be, and it Icomes to the coach's notice, that man
 will be discharged. from the rowing Isquad.'' .s
 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 Z you are 3, part
 It is more or less of a coincidence that the publication of these training Irules as laid down by NickaI1s should Ibe made the day on which Oxford and lCambridge meet in their annual boat Trace on the Thames. NickalIs gained his initial reputation as an oarsman
 while at Oxford and in after years Ecoached the varsity crews that rowed | Hr7a.- -~ his brother Guy .Nicka1Is. now coach at Yale, one Of the best oarsmen ever developed at Oxford during the period I of the inter-varsfty races which ex- tends back to 1841.
 Since the initial race that year the Ieight-oared crews of Oxford and Cam bridge have met seventy times. On lthe eve of the seventy-f1rst race of | the series the score shows that Oxford has won thirty-nine races; Cambridge, thirty, while the race of 1877 resulted lin a dead heat. The course is four andz one-quarter miles and the best time Ism 29s made by Oxford in 1911. American college regatta records do mot touch these figures, for the inter college regetta record made by Conneu in 1901 is Ism B 1-5's for four miles, | while the best time for the Harvard lYaIe regatta was made by Yale crew of 1888 when the Blue won the four Emi1e race in 20m los. That the Thames 4course Is faster than the New London stretch would appear to be indicated Iby the fact that the Harvard crew of t19O6 was defeated by Cambridge by l two lengths in Ism 1Ss, on September I8 of that year, after Harvard won from Yale in a four mile race at New lI4ondon by margin of nine seconds in 23m 2s on June 2S of the same year. | Another intercollegiate basketball season has closed with the champion ship five undermined. In the east the race of the intercollegiate League, con sistineS of six of the leading colleges of the section, ended with Columbia and Cornell tied for first place. Each lteam won eight and lost two games.
 Yale was third with six games won and four lost. Princeton, Pennsyl-
 vaniaL and Dartmouth followed in the order named. Because of faculty re- ] strictions attempt was made to play off the tie for first place, although both Cornell and Columbia players and 1 undergraduates were eager to see the question of supremacy settled.
 In the middle west conference the l championship was won in impressive style by the University of Wisconsin 4 five, which played the twelve game Ischedule without meeting defeat The
 record of these cast and west games shows that a slight advantage rests with the west at present. In 1905 the teams of Columbia and Wisconsin, the title holder of that Sears met in New York, and Columbia won the game by l a close score. At the close of the 1907-s season, Pennsylvania, winners of the eastern league series met Chic ago, the Big Nine'' champions in an lintersectional contest. One game was played in Chicago and one in Philad- Ielphia, and in each case the western five was the victor by few points margin after a fast brilliant display of individual and team basketball.
 A revised list of alumni and under graduates entitled to wear the Yale .'Y'' shows that the aggregate total of lvarsity letter winners is 1900 Of this
 number, 1,O53 are graduates. 92 are non graduates and the remaining 55 are under graduates. The various groups