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Show COACH GUY NICKALLS FAVORS 4-MILE RACE Safer for Man's Health and General Gen-eral Fitness. Heart Trouble la Generally Traced to Shorter Contests Doctor Spaeth of Princeton Would Race Yearly Year-ly Over Two-Mile Course. Guy NIckalls, head coach of Yale crews, would abolish short races, as he finds them more dangerous to the health of the participants and a poorer poor-er test of oarsmanship than a four-mile four-mile row. In a special article In The Harvard Crimson Coach NIckalls says : "The four-mil race Is safer for the man's general health and physical fitness fit-ness than the distance of one mile and flve-slrteenths. Heart trouble Is gen- ft W Coach Guy Nickalls. erally traced to the shorter races and seldom to the longer races. Had I my way I would have no races under four miles for Interunlversity contests." con-tests." Doctor Spaeth, Princeton's coach, favors the shorter distances and Is desirous de-sirous of seeing Harvard, Princeton and Yale engage In a trliiiiEulnr race yearly over a two-mile course. |