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President Conant has been wise enough to realize that colleges must train the undergraduates for living--not for the grandstand. --Syracuse Daily Orange...
Princeton, April 11--Wide awake to the necessity of finding new revenue to balance athletic budgets, Princeton has brought forth a plan to put crew on a semi-paying basis. Asa S. Bushnell, graduate manager, has announced that the Carnegie Lake course will be reversed and a grandstand erected at the finish. A large area of open meadow, which will be roped off, is expected to yield substantial income...
...Bingham have caught the end of the rope that their colleagues are afraid to touch. If they succeed in climbing it, other colleges may try to forget the mad insanity of the twenties by discovering that they too want to train their undergraduates for life not for the grandstand. In Cambridge, at any rate, athletics will be put on an athletic basis...
...enormous (300,000) crowd at Aintree were the Prince of Wales who climbed down an embankment from his train to escape the crush; a boisterous young farmer named Agnew who tried to clear the 16-ft. water jump in front of the grandstand and fell in; John...
Hardest steeplechase in the world, the Grand National is 4.½ miles, twice around a course laid out over dreary, treeless flats near Liverpool, over 30 jumps, huge hedges & ditches wide as little rivers. Only the 300 yards in front of the grandstand are clearly visible to most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...