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coaching change, but abandons a professional 

 coach for a graduate. Her reason, however, 

 is not the disapproval of professional coach- 

 ing but the non-success of Hanlan and the 

 availability of Goodwin over any professional 

 of reputation. She has always floundered 

 about without system since rowing was re- 

 sumed and unless signs fail will again bring 

 up the rear with Georgetown at Poughkeep- 

 sie. 



WISCONSIN IMPROVED. 



Wisconsin will be the dark horse on the 

 Hudson. Her crew will be of unknown 

 quality. Unlike last year O'Dea has always 

 had a sturdy lot and the chances favor a good 

 eight. 



Cornell professes to have fears of failure, 

 but the Ithacans have always plenty of ma- 

 terial and her continued successes prove the 

 efficiency of her coaching. She is pretty like- 

 ly to be there good and strong. 



Pennsylvania has a bright prospect with all 

 her eight back save one man and plenty of 

 good new material, while Syracuse, the cham- 

 pion, has all her men back. A rattling race 

 should be afforded by Penn, Syracuse and 

 Cornell, with the possibility of Wisconsin 

 cutting in. 



There is some doubt as to what George- 

 town will do without Dempsey, since the lat- 

 ter will return to his old love, the Vespers, 

 to prepare them for their Henley trip, and 

 will undoubtedly go abroad with them. 



The Vesper entry at Henley, by the way, 

 is quite likely to arouse much unpleasantness 

 when the personnel of the crew is made 

 known to the English stewards. If there 

 was a question raised as to the status of col- 

 lege crews abroad the make-up of the Ves- 

 per eight is not likely to pass muster un- 

 challenged under the queer English eligibility 

 requirements. These endless quibbles make 

 one almost wish that Americans would be 

 content with honors to be won at home and 

 leave England to the enjoyment of her ex- 



clusiveness. It is not an elevating position 

 to be continually knocking at a door at which 

 we have always been more or less politely 

 told we are not wanted. It savors, too, rather 

 of pot-hunting. 



DUFFY THE MUG HUNTER. 



Speaking of pot-hunting, the spectacle pre- 

 sented by Arthur Duffey, the Australian, 

 must make the collegian blush. Duffey is 

 so good as to be in a class by himself. It 

 would be pleasant to place him on a pedes- 

 tal for continued worship, but he lowers 

 himself more by his systematic pot-hunting 

 under amateur guise than if he deliberately 

 embraced professionalism. There should be 

 some way to break up the practice. 



The restriction of Stannard and Ritter by 

 Princeton, Cartmell by Pennsylvania, and 

 Rose by Michigan for scholastic deficiencies 

 is a step in the right direction, since all four 

 men are stars in their line and therefore the 

 temptation to overlook their failings is quite 

 strong. The sentiment may now be said to 

 be firmly established favoring the elimin- 

 ation of ineligibles from competition at any 

 cost. 



If some means can be devised to prevent 

 importation and bidding for promising ath- 

 letes by the offer of scholarships and other 

 advantages we may hope for absolutely pure 

 college athletics. Such spectacles as af- 

 forded by McCormick at Princeton last year 

 are sickening, but just how they can be pre- 

 vented is hard to see. The time must come 

 when a sentiment will be developed that will 

 make it impossible. An indication of it is 

 given by the distaste with which the en- 

 trance of college star pitchers into profes- 

 sional baseball has been received. Clarkson 

 of Harvard at New York, Allen of Yale in 

 New England, Crumley of Georgetown at 

 Detroit, and Caldwell of Pennsylvania at 

 Philadelphia are not applauded by college 

 men, though it is true the advent of colle- 

 gians in the professional game has raised 

 its tone. 





