The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
Eatsem College Baseball Players
Are Tuning Upfor Coming Season

coach. He played on the North Sgd
ney team and was picked for the New
South Wales team two years ago, but
was prevented from playing through
injuries. Young Higgins attended
st. Aloysius college in Sydney and
comes to the University of Southern
California as a transfer, which may
prevent his representing the univers-
ity in games with California or STAN
ford until a years time has elapsed.
He is reported to be a Splinter of
ability and valuable as a track team
asset.
Harvard crew authorities are much
elated over the successful outcome
of the negotiations with Coach Jim
Wray who recently signed a five-year
renewal of his contract with the
Cambridge university. Although the
terms were not made public it is
understood that Wray receives the
salary increase which he had re-
quested. The Union Boat club of
Detroit stood ready to engage Wray
had he failed to reach a satisfactory
arrangement with Harvard. The
Harvard Crimson in an editorial COM
ment states:
Whatever may be said against the
organization of college athletics to-
day, athletic success is one of the
factors of a university prestige. The
undergraduate department of a uni.
versity adds not only to it's own
standing, but to that of the whole
institution to which it belongs. by
a good name in the athletic world.
Consequently there is cause for re.
joicing to more than those primarily
interested in Harvard's athletic suc-
cess in the assurance that Coach
Wray will continue in charge of the
crews for at least five years to come.
Victories from the crews of Yale
in six out of eight years service, the
swinging of rowing supremacy Cam.
bridgeward, and a name for healthy
sport, have SO placed him that we
must make glad that he is to keep
On with his work" =.
The universities and colleges of
the middle west are preparing for
spring football practice which will
be held during the month of April.
Coach Yost of Michigan has already
looked over the situation and ordered
out the Wolverines on Monday, April
IS. Yost will be in charge during
all the training, and probably will
be in Ann Arbor on brief visits in the
meantime. He also recommended &C
ton of the athletic authorities in
again securing Germany" Schultz
to coach the Wolverine forwards.
Coach Andy" Smith of Purdue
at a recent meeting of the candidates
! for the 1914 eleven passed out print
ed cards which we're filled out by the
prospective players. The cards pro-
vide for information regarding grades
of the men in each of their subjects.
A space is provided for each months
grade. The cards will be collected
each month so that the coach will
know the exact standing of each man
at monthly intervals during the year.
The call for spring practice will be
made April first, according to Coach
Smith. He expects that a large squad
will respond to the call. documentary
instruction will be the plan of spring
practice.
The statements attributed to
Trainer Jack Coakley of Cornell re-
lative to the eligibility of the Oxford
university track team which is to
run at the University of Pennsylvania
relay meet April %, do not find
favor at Pennsylvania. The u%nivers-
ity daily in an editorial review of
the point states:
"Of course the Englishmen have an
advantage if they have no One-year
rule, but the using of the Rhodes
scholastic matter how long their
residence at Oxford-is a legitimate
advantage, if it is one. In the case
of Tabor and men in his position
there is nothing which violates the
spirit of the One-year rule.
why not let the Englishmen use
their advantage? The sporting pub
lie, we are sure, wants to see them
send over the best team they can
All the more credit to the American
team that is able to defeat them.
All the less bitter the defeat should
the Englishmen carry home the title.
After all, Pennsylvania is striv-
international race that can be ar
ranged. Oxford may have an ad-
vantage in n respect, but if the
idea develops into M of England
versus America, hasn't this country