ATHLETES’ LUXURIES.
“UNGENTLEMANLY” BILLS
The sporting world of America is greatly stirred by the .publication of a report by Mr. Le Baron Briggs, president of the Harvard University committee on the regulation of athletic sports, denouncing the low ideals animating Harvard athletes. Mr. Briggs’s chief complaint is the gigantic extravagance of the student members of the football and baseball teams, whose bills of expenses he describes as “ungentlemaniy.” Despite enormous gate receipts it is., Mr. Briggs asserts, barely possible for the Harvard Committee to meet its bills owing to the sums spent by the athletes out of the gate money for equipment, shoes, sweaters, expensive hotel quarters, luxurious dinners, wine, cigars, souvenir photographs, keepsakes, taxicabs, and; theatres.
He describes these expenses as “bear--: ing about the same relation to the. health and' success of our teams thatja-silver-mounted bridle bears to good horsemanship.” He exhorts the under-> graduates to practise “the simple hour.: esty and common sense, abandoning the*, pampering, even pauperising, and certainly enervating luxuries obtained by the aid of the gate money.” - - j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3203, 26 April 1911, Page 3
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174ATHLETES’ LUXURIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3203, 26 April 1911, Page 3
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