-EXTRAORDINARY ACTION”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1065, 1 September 1930, Page 13

-EXTRAORDINARY ACTION”

PICT TO SYDNEY SCHOOL OARSMEN fIJST NOT TRAIN FOR RACES ■ _ e "Sydney Sun” makes the followeditorial comment on the recent 'ouble in Sydney over the secondary pools' rowing championship: iC In the absence of any detailed explanation Of its extraordinary action in II daring no race the eight-oar chamLshiP at the last Great Public schools regatta, the Athletic Associa- ' which governs these affairs may ” fairly said to have resting the old nursery song: j “.Mother may I go cut to swim? Yes you may. my daughter! Hang your clothes on a mulberry tree But don’t go near the water.” „ enunciates, in effect, the principle t W hiie boys in the Great Public Itbools may row in championships, ’ must not train for tliese races, acause the boys were absent from ; ir lessons and on the river during Ljool hours. their races must be «med not to have taken place. It might have been thought—if in■ei the absence of boys from lessons ‘ training purposes be the dreadful I lienee it apparently is—that certain ii vs would have been laid down regu."g their training hours and con:sns in future. Surely that would I . „ been a less hysterical manner of I -itine tlie situation. It is trin* that ... are so constructed that all play i no work make Jac k an illiterate “ just as truly as all work and no .J, rnike him a dull one. training needed in rowing Medically it is highly desirable that vs rowing in these races should be ■ w thoroughly and sicentitically lined. No sport results in such a rain as a hard-fought boat race. It should have been possible to preT ibe certain training hours which S ould not conflict with the school work, itra days could bo granted as the ice drew near. It is not a question • "professionalism,” but of seeing that , 9 bova are fit to row. At all events, e action taken appears to have been -calculated to help very much. It has ea lt a very heavy blow at CJ.P.S. rowa blow which the gain in lesson ours hardly seems to compensate. It is apparently formulated no rules to j ■[ the crews know what they must do to the ideas of the associa>n. The sooner the association tells tartly what it wants, the better for all concerned.