The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-07-18

Wales, who has just completed two
years at oxford, is finding his ex-
ploits at that institution of learning
under critical review in the newspa-
pers. An undergraduate, who has
had an opportunity to see much of
this future king Of England. notes
his impressions in a seemingly frank
manner.
Viewed impartially," he says,
"the princes caree has been neither
better nor worse than that of the av-
erage titled undergraduate. He has
embarked on many Of the manly
sports of youth, and excelled in
none. Perhaps the best comment on
his good spirit and his lack of side
was the fact that he played consist
emily at association football with the
Magdalen college second eleven.
For a long time he was the de-
spair of his equerry, but as a conces-
sion to popular opinion, expressed
and unexpressed, he has acquired
some skill in the saddle, and with it
some of the standing that falls only
to hunting men at Oxford.
THAT the prince should take an
equal footing with all in undergrad
uate life was, of course, an innova-
ton attended. as one might expect,
by advantages and drawbacks. The
curious interest with which he was
pestered in his early weeks soon
uyora off hut tho natural dooiro f0
be intimately associated with a
prince so easy of access was harder
to kill.
"Magdalen second eleven last sea
son proved far more attractive to
many men than the college senior
team. Little or no concession has
been made to his royalty. saw him
the other day waiting at the door Of
one of the leading doctors in Ok
ford. On the other hand, he has had
freedom and ease which he will new
err again enjoy; he has mixed osten-
~tatiously with people of all ranks;
he has endured bravely and well the
discomforts of camp life as a private,
and he has been treated with a quiet,
well-bred respect by every member
of the university"
The prince has rather startled his
university companions lately by TAX
ing to the pipe and giving up, for
the moment, the cigarette. A picture
of him with the Oxford officers train
ing corps shows the prince putting at
a great bull dog pipe. and apparent
ly enjoying it. The next day, how
ever, he left his regiment, which had
not finished its training. and came
to London. Gossips are saying that
Queen Mary, having seen the pic
ture, SEM for him.
The London Truth, discussing in
ternational sports, declares that
while for years it has been an article
of faith with the British that Amer
leans are not sportsmen, n thing
after another lately has gone to dis
prove this charge. The writer re-
views many instances of friendly
competition, including the recent
polo matches when the Americans
"acted from a spirit of craftsmanship
which was IDEAL" in insisting upon
the postponement of the first match
because Captain Cheape had been in
jured in practice.
In the line of athletics he recalled
the traces of old prejudice that were
seen at the last Olympic games, and
added:
"Bounders in sport there must be
on both sides of the water. But TAX
en- all around the average American
athlete is a better class man than
his English antagonist"
He continues:
81 am so sick when advocating ra-
tional improvement in athletics Of
hearing the twaddle about SPECIALIZE
ton, especially as practiced by the
Americans. that I want to point out
that without specialization and or
%ganization that (polo) cup would
never have been lifted"
He pointed to the success which
Guy Nickalls, the past president of
the Oxford university boat club had
had in r~eorganizing rowing at Yale
along English lines.
"It was a big job" he said, ut
seemed practically impossible that
success could attend his first efforts.
Undergraduates are ticklish people
to deal with, even though their 10y
atty and good will may be assured.
Well, Yale has won. and I believe
with fixed rowlocks, but only by a
foot. They must have learned to
finish a race, and there was n good
old Etonian rowing for Harvard. If
Yale is wise they will once again get
Guy Nickalls to help them If he is
prepared to do so. And If they do,
and if they get hold of our English
style. then there will be an occa-
casional international university
boat race worth seeing.
"The way in which these altera-