“PAMPERED IDOLS"
VARSITY OARSMEN
Training Methods Under Fierce
Criticism TOO MUCH HERO-WORSHIP. (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn. —Copy right.) Received Alarch 27, 11 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Alarch 27. The girls’ idols —University boat crews—a‘e at present the centre of severe criticism, and their methods are variously described as old-fashioned and inadequate. The fact that three lesser crews, coming direct from office desks to compete in the head of the river race on Saturday, lowered the Oxford trial time over the same course has caused prominent oarsmen to scoff and say that training should be drastically curtailed, two months being adequate, instead of the crews being locked up and pampered until they are bored with one another.
Collet, the Cambridge president in 1924, asks; “Why four coaches, anyhow?”
The general feeling seems to be that there is too much hero-worship and insufficient commonsense in the methods employed-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20107, 28 March 1928, Page 7
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