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nerve to develop the principles of the
new game.

Transfer of a competitor who has rep
| resented one nation to the ranks of an
| other nation in a later Olympiad.
Restricting the number of entries.
Conditions. form and date of entries.
What are the Indispensable sports in a
category which should include athletics.
gymnastics. combative sports, water
sports. equestrian sports. Pentathlon?
Matter Of counting points.
Table of results.
Incidentally, many other points will be
discussed.
II would be well if this congress re-
Sarded as the main question to be settled
beyond and above any other considera-
ton-this: .Iiow can we get back two
ideas of the ancient Olympic. namely.
peace freedom from quarrels) and edu-
cation of judges
This Olympic congress must bear in
mind that if the games are to con-
tinue. international rivalry must not be
carried to the point of quarrels; that in
the old days declaration Of peace
throughout the country was the first
requisite of the Olympic games. Then
as to the other point, that no games
have been held thus far where the
judges down to the lowest man were
sufficiently educated in their work. The
old Greeks made the judges go to a
training school and prepare themselves
with quite as long a. course as did the
athletes
1 recommend the consideration Of
Il
Armour and Col. Thompson that the
American committee, headed by James
f. sullivan. Alfred Hill. Barlow Weeks,
Everett Brown, Joseph MacCabe, DIR.
ing, may be prepared to do their best
as delegates toward the accomplish
ment of these desired results.
The light blue of Cambridge showed
to the front as the odds had indicated
when her crew met Oxford for the
four and a quarter mile annual contest
from Putney to Mortlake. The time
was 20 minutes 23 seconds, and the
Oxford was somewhat over four lengths
to the rear. 1t was a little hard that
Cambridge should win the toss besides
having supposedly the better crew, but
this she did, and took the Surrey side,
which was somewhat sheltered from
the slight wind that was blowing. AL
though oxford got shade the best of
the start. it was the last time that the
dark blue was in front, for Cambridge
at Hammersmith bridge, which is ap-
proximately half way. had a length
of clear water between its rudder
and the bow of the Oxford boat. At
ahead and added another length and
a little over before crossing the finish
line. The result only confirmed the
fact that there is almost never a mis-
take made over twice by the sporting
element in accurately selecting the
Charles Courtney, usually rather nom
committal, talked quite freely at many
points on his western trip, and before
the Cornell Alumni Association of st.
Louis he described the evolution of the
stroke which has done SO much for his
institution.
He said. There is no such thing as
Cornell stroke. or Yale stroke. or Har-
ward stroke. We coaches all aim at the
question who can more perfectly achieve
it, as exemplifed in the work of his
crews
Tom Hall, an engineering student years
ago aided Courtney in working out this
problem.
Courtney's description of one of these
discoveries . is interesting. Hall and
myself. in 1895. equipped rowing ma
chine with steam indicator. similar to
that used ON a locomotive. We found
there was a break in the middle of the
pull which meant loss of power. The
break came on the pause as the slide
with the legs began to move. Immediate
ly our problem became to evolve stroke
which would give a sustained and equal
pulling power. We achieved that by
starting the leg stroke with the arm pull.
and we now have a perfectly sustained
stroke. This has become standard"
One of the painful jokes in rowing is
to have the second crew beat the first.
The worst of it Is that the second crew
almost always does win in any early tests
that are made. At three of our big uni
versities this is happening now. and it is
likely to happen a great deal in the next
month or so. Boat racing is far more
best coach in the world, if he picks out
a first crew in April and coaches it care
fully and consistently for two or three
weeks. and then puts 1t up against
second crew that has been coached by an
unknown or perhaps has Goa ached them
selves. is very apt to find himself beaten
by the second crew or scrubs. There are
certain reasons for this condition of af-
fairs and it does not always mean that the
first or varsity crew Is going to be poor
keeping a coach from becoming too
proud of his work. The first crew is usually
more 0r less handicapped by the effort to
remember all the instructions OF the
coach and put them into effect. while the
second crew is enthused with the idea Of
the race itself. and the chance to show
that they should be the first boat. Hence
the customary result
Our friend Christie Mathewson, and
other base ball golfers. it seems. can
count ON considerable sympathy at the
source. for John Heydler. the secretary
and treasurer of the National League. is
not only a golfer, but was a contender
in the north and south championship at
Pinehurst. Furthermore. he plays good
game and gets under 90 on the No.
course. at Pinehurst, which, as has been
remarked before in these columns. is
fair average work for a man who regards
golf as a pastime. and the writer has
seen men who pride themselves on their
game get over that 80 mark at times on
this particular course.
1t certainly seems sometimes as il We
were going mad on the subject of investi-
CATION and what Prof. Sumner has once
called THE absurd attempt to make
the world over"
Here. for instance, is the conclusion OF
to try to ascertain what the colleges are
doing to foster and encourage the types
Of physical exercise and healthful recrea-
ton that the student is likely to indulge
in after leaving college," and suggests as
q recommendation that academic credit
should be given for elective work in
intracollege sports and hygiene" In the
suggestion to create a love Of the sports
of later years by playing hand ball, volley
ercises, there seems to be an impression
that we would thus increase the love of
these sports in the older men. Now, az a
matter of fact. as repeatedly stated in
these columns, every age has its sport
from the cradle to the grave, and it GER
tainly is never going to be very effective
to endeavor to seduce a boy Of eighteen
rective exercises and away from the foot
ball which he happens to be crying for.
any more than it would be to get the old
man of fifty back to play marbles.