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THE GAMES AT LONDON.
There was plenty of good feeling at
the games at :ondon. <The < best
spirit seems to have prevailed. On that
feature of the occasion we can dwell
with satisfaction. If we can forget that
Yale had anything to do with it, we can
follow the events, uncertain to the last,
with an absorbing interest. There were
some great contests, and, no doubt, on
the purely athletic side, no little good
will come of the meet.
On the still more important’ side of
athletics, of a mutual understanding and
a substantial friendship between the
universities concerned, the meeting has
helped things still farther along. That
it also has contributed not a little to
further strengthening good feeling be-
tween good people of both countries is
apparent. ; ;
We offer our compliments to the win-
ning team of Oxford and Cambridge,
and beg to express the appreciation of
Yale of the very cordial hospitality
shown to this university’s men.
Yale’s performers were altogether un-
fortunate, but gave no occasion for
individual criticism. |
YALE ATHLETICS.
As to the present situation in Yale
athletics this much ean at least be said.
Neither undergraduates nor graduates
are trying to make themselves feel bet-
ter by being ungracious and ungrateful
to men who worked hard and did their
best, often under impossible conditions. |
Thev are not condemning losing leaders,
who have themselves in the past done
great work for the Blue.
When it comes to such a sport as
rowing, in which there was more of a
system of codperation between under-
graduates and graduates than in any
other sport, they are just as far as pos-
sible from visiting wrath upon good
coaches. They have nothing but grati-
tude for Dr. Gallaudet, whose labors
have been heavy and unselfish, and for
Mr. Cowles, who has given the next
greatest amount of time and effort to
the Eight. These men are both of the
quality demanded by the best standards
of University athletics. Yale has been
well and successfully served by them in
the past, under different conditions, and
Yale confidently counts on their aid in
a better conditioned future. And so
they feel towards other coaches—towards
Dr. Hartwell and Dr. Bolton, and
towards Messrs. Ives and Armstrong
and the others who have lent a hand
willingly. And there is, certainly hope-
ful gratitude for the services of Mr.
Rodgers, whose record with Freshman
crews, including this year’s race, is, on
the whole, remarkable.
But the Yale mind is centered on
general conditions, which are not what
they ought to be and which must first
be remedied, before any permanent gain
can be secured in any branch. And
points are now clear, which were before
disputed. Yale is disorganized; her
parts are not working together. The
attempt to run the athletics of a Univer-
sity of more than two thousand five
hundred men, on the plan of a compact
college of half the number, is at last
a demonstrated and plainly demonstrated
failure. ,
We are devoutly glad that the thing
is clear at last, and that nobody can now
venture to talk of “letting well enough
alone,” or “the value of occasional de-
feat.” Yale standards of thoroughness
and determination: have been weakened,
the Yale name lowered, the Yale reputa-
tion impaired—not by mere defeats, but
by performances in the name of Yale
that have not been up to the Yale stand-
ard. .And men admit that this is so.
If all the records of the last few years
were necessary to make them admit it,
then we do not regret these defeats and
disasters.
For now Yale is determined to do her
work well again—and her men are wil-
ling to call back the forces of the past
by the same reasonable treatment of
present conditions as was applied to the
conditions of ten or fifteen years ago.
What may come of the present attitude
of the Yale mind and the Yale heart; it
is yet too early to say; but if something
practical, definite and decisive does not
result from it, then we will. have to
revise our opinion about the Yale mind
and the Yale heart.
“VALE YARNS.’
Almost anything has to be expected in
the “silly season,” particularly when
sporting editors and editorial writers
have such an imagination-stirring spec-
tacle as that which is offered by a
University of formerly unequalled ath-
letic fame, flat on its back in. every
branch of sport. The Sun conjures up
a line of professional coaches leading
our eleven, our crew, our nine and our
track team. Tompkins, Hartwell, But-
terworth, Hinkey, Adee, Rodgers, Mur-
phy, and other men supposed at one
time to know the game, are not to otlide
Yale elevens any more. They may talk
a little at practice and walk along the
side lines, but the virtues and the glory
of football are henceforth to be safe-
guarded by some imported professional
specialist. And so with Dr. Gallaudet
- ing up the rear.
and Mr. Cowles and Mr. Rodgers and
the others who used to row. When it
comes to real business, they must keep
still and look dignified and shed ancient
glory. They must not interfere. Mr.
Ten Eyck or some other man of his
profession, who spends six or more
days of the week for fifty-two weeks
of the year, at the end of an oar, shall
henceforth create the might and_ skill
and poetry and enthusiasm and pluck
of a winning Yale eight. The baseball
men—youths just going out of. their
teens and yet impressionable—shall sit
at the feet of the quiet men of the Na-
tional League and learn real sport.
All of which is simply a reminder that
Yale’s friends must be prepared to read
anything about her in the papers. Won-
derful things were said when Yale led
the column, but if you remember still
more wonderful things were being said
at the time of Harvard, who was bring-
Good newspapers do
not mean to print fakes about Yale,
but some of the best of them have been
fooled in trying to analyze the Univer-
sity’s present discreditable and anoma-
lous condition in athletics, and it will
not be surprising if they are misled again.
It is hard for anyone to analyze it intel-
ligently. Let no one be troubled too
much about what is said, but rather let
all concern themselves about what is
done. When that is right, the rest will
take care of itself. When things ma-
ture a little more a plan will be offered
in which all may help. :
Bie, Fi ext
Outing, in its review of the boating
season, in its August number, gives a
large share of the credit of Harvard’s
success in rowing this year to the influ-
ence of Mr. Lehmann. - Other well
informed critics have reached the same
conclusion. ‘This verdict is without dis-
paragement to Mr. Storrow, whose
splendid services are accorded the ful-
lest appreciation. The point is that
Mr. Lehmann made a boating spirit at
Harvard. He turned indifference into
positive and general enthusiasm and
broke up conditions which favored the
development of the few against the
chances of the many. Scores of men
went to the boat houses for the simple
pleasure and exercise of rowing, and
those who would not have thought of
entering the competition for places in
University or Class boats appeared
towards the end of the season as strong
rivals of veterans. A fast set of crews
was sure to come, sooner or later, as the
result of such conditions. It must be
confessed that it is a good thing for
college athletics generally that such
conditions produced good results.
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The New York Times can send Mr.
Walter Camp to Europe to negotiate
with Mr. Cook for his return to Yale
to take charge of rowing, or in any other
way indulge in extravagant fiction, dur-
ing the quiet vacation hours. Yale sub-
mits. But we respectfully demur when
it exploits a careless ignorance concern-
ing the Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twichell,
of Yale 1859 and of Yale of all time
since. The Times was enumerating
after-dinner star speakers and naturally
tried to include him. It called him
“Professor” and it spelt his name
with a “t” in the middle. The error
of spelling was only careless ignorance.
The title was an affront—in this case.
Mr. Twichell makes a more or less
regular annual business of refusing
honorary degrees, and objects to being
called “Doctor.” The Times would be
more agreeable to the friends of the
popular preacher of Hartford and the
honorable Fellow of Yale, if it called
him by his first name and left off the
last syllable of that. He carries the
simple title thus remaining with great
dignity. The Times also spoke of him
as “of Yale.” That is in one sense true,
and at any rate, the accident of his resi-
dence is not a proper subject, in these
columns, of comment or criticism. _
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