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Show TO BAR PROFESSIONAL COACHES IN BASEBALL The agitation to eliminate tho professional profes-sional baseball coach during tho playing of later-varsity games is at present the subject of correspondence and discussion discus-sion among a number of eaotorn colleges. It is the contention that the nines should play tholr game without tho field assistance as-sistance and advice of tho professional coach, lfx it is to bo a purely amateur contest. Tho Harvard Alumni Bulletin expresses tho following editorial opinion on the subject; Tho object of these athletic teachers teach-ers is to prepare tho men for tholr final tosts, Just as Instructors In othor departments prepare the men for the final examinations. Only in athletics, however, does tho teacher lend a hand in the final examlna- , tlon. Tho slnglo sport In. which he doos not is rowing. Would it not be advisable to adopt In all the branches of sport some measure which would leave the men to thomselves In the final test? In this way leadership for the captain and responsibility for all tho players would bo more fully developed, de-veloped, Also tho results of the contests con-tests would dopond more upon tho intelligence in-telligence of the competitors and less upon the clovorneaa of the coach. . |