The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-18
PRINCE OF WALES A PIPE SMOKER;
 QUEEN IS vEXED
London Truth Admits Sportmanship of Ameri- cans Is Something Fine Unionist Party Unable to Find Parlian1ent Seat
 for Kipling

E sISondon. July 1s-The4 Prince oI E;xVales who has Just completed two ] ears eIt Oxford: is finding his exploits
 at that i1stft tuition Of learning under
 critical review in the newspapers An l .un derecraduate, who has had an op- 1 portuni ityssto see much7of this future l ling. Of England. notes his impressions Edn a seemingly frank manner. 1 viewed irnpartia1Iy,'' z. he says, t.'the Princes career has been neither bet
 ter nor worse than that of the average titled undergraduate He has en1- parked on many of the many sports of Lyouth, and exceI1ed in none Perhaps 4he best comment on his good spirit | and hisslaclx of aide was the fact that
 he played consistently at Association football with the .Magdalen College 1 second eleven.
 |, ,ass'F'or long lime he was the des-
 pair OG his equerTy but as a conces-
 sion to popular opinion expressed and ! une1pressed, he has acquired some | skill in the saddle, and with 1t some
 Of the standtn E that falls only to- hunt- | ing men: at Oxford
 { .sgThafs the Prince should take an lequaI footing with all in undergradz uate life wass of course an, innova-
 tion Attended, as one might expect l by advantages and drawbacks. The fcur4ous inter est with which he was 1 pestered in his early weeks soon wore
 of but the natural desire to be tnti- lsHately associated with a. prince sU Eeasy of access was harder to kill
 sslGa9daien second eleven last sea lson proved far more attractive to
 ma.ny men than the college senicr < ktearn.sgf Little or no concession has .Rbee11- made. to his royalty. I saw him 4 lthE other; day waiting at the door of I one of the leading doctors in Oxford On the other hand, he has had frec- dom and ease which he will never again en joy; he has mixed unostenta- l.tiously with people of all rankss he l has endured bravely and well the dis
 comforts of camp life as private, | and he has been treated with a quiet,
 we'll bred respect by every member of l the university''
 The Prince has rather startled his | university companions lately by talk ling to the pipe and giving up, for the
 moment, the cigarette. A picture of i him with the Oxford officers train
 ing corps shows the Prince pulling at I a great bull dog pipe, and apparently enjoying it. The next day, however, | he left his regiment which had not I hnishe its training, and came to Lon don Gossips are saying that Queen Mary having seen the picture sent for i him.
 l M The London Truth. discussing fIster- 1 national sports. declares that while for | years it has been an article of faith with the British that Americans are
 not sportsmen, one thing after anoth- I CT lately has gone to disprove this 1 charge. The writer reviews many in- ] stances of friendly competition, in | c1uding the recent polo matches when l the Americans acted from a spirit of I sportsmanship which was ideal" in
 insisting upon the postponement of Ethe first match because Captain Cheape had been injured in practice. I In the line of athletics he recalled | r1<.
 seen at the last Olympic games. and added:
 ..Bounders in sport there must be on both sides Of the water. But taken lah round the average American ath- | lete is & better class man than his
 English antagonist.''
 He continues: sT am so sick when l ladVocating rational Improvement in
 athletics of hearing the twaddle about
 specialization, especially as practised out that without specialization 4-and
 Organization that (pozo) cup would
 never have been lifted
 He pointed to the success which l Guy Nickal1s, the past president of
 the Oxford University Boat Club had
 had in reorganizing rowing at Yale l along English lines.
 Tt was a big tob,'' he said, eft
 seemed practically impossible that
 success could attend his first efforts lUndergraduates are Cckllsh people to
 deal with, even though their loyalty
 and good will may be assured. We'll | Yale has won, and I believe with fix | ed rowlocks, but only by a foot. They must have learned to finish race, and lthere was one good old Etonian row F ing for Harvard. If Yale is wise they
 will once again get Guy NickalIsl to
 help them if he is prepared to do so And if they do, and if they get hold | of our English styt1e, then there will be an occasional international uni i+versity boat race worth seeing.
 s'The way in which these altera-