Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-12
YALEATHLETICS.

The Football Team Prospect - The
 Coming Races-The Return To Lake
 SatonstaI- An Agreeable Change
 The Ladies Like It-The Inter-Colle-
 giate Tennis Tournament.
 Football practice at Yale is booming and every other muscular man on the campus walks with becoming limp and is adored by the fair sex in consequence of his sup posed hardness, endurance and bravery.
 This years rush line is called excellent. The men are not what is esteemed heavy for football players who require plenty of brawn, but they are as active as cats. If they only prove as hard to kill, Yale stock will have 8 wonderful boom There has not been much encouragement for aspirants for the half backs positions in past seasons, as the play CTS occupying these places have been regard ed as phenominal, but, since they are both out of college now, there is chance for am- bilious gentlemen. Some members of last years team are left, and among them are Captain Peters, who rows in the university eight in the spring to keep him self in good condition to wear a canvas jacket on the Polo Grounds on Thanksgiving day, and Coxe, who weighed two hundred and fifty pounds when he came to college and hasn't lost any flesh since. It was said that there was popular | theory at Harvard that the young giant was | fed on very rare beef for a year to make him fierce enough to face the Princeton rushers. Wesleyan has been admitted to the league, but nobody can tell whether Harvard's facul- | ty will allow @ Cambridge team to play championship games. Princeton is restrict ed to playing college grounds, but when ever she plays she is Yale's chief opponent. Their game is the meeting of Greek and Greek, although all the language used on the occasion is apt to be Anglo-Saxon and ex- pressive of much in few words.
 The class races will be rowed at Lake Sal tonstall on the 14th.
 This is a matter of rejoicing among many l outside of Yale, including their fair friends, as it is so much more enjoyable for the ladies and everybody else to witness the races from the wooded, sloping grassy banks of the lake than to try to snatch a glance now and then at the crews out on the wind swept, cold, dreary harbor. The har- bor races have been so dull and spritless to sight-seers, especially the ladies, that but few ladies have of late attempted to see them, and thus the interest in the races has deteriorated. Formerly, if on a pleasant day, the races were viewed at Lake Salton- stall by hundreds of the elite young ladies of the city and scores of the finest livery and private teams were at the scene, and there
  to the races. The boys rowed for all they worth of course with so many bright eyes upon them and so many fair ones wearing their particular colors. The lake is four miles from the city. The trouble and ex- pense involved in transporting boats and crews over the distance between the college and the lake caused change to the harbor, where rough water, passing vessels and light winds proved great objections. Moreover, 1t was impossible for specte tors to see much more than the finish. These disadvantages have caused return to the old plan, and again the ere ws will try their skill in fresh water. It luckily hap pens that the Shore Line railroads tracks cross one end of Lake Saltonstall, and spec ial train in former days will save the weary old-time tramp over dusty shell roads or along aggravating crossties.
 On October 15 will begin the intercollegi- ate tennis tournament, whose games will be played on the fine courts of the New Haven club. The meeting will probably last three days, and will bring together some of the best players in the country. M. P. Knapp, 's6, who did we'll at Newport last summer, is Yale's champion, but he is said to be playing poorer game than he did some time ago The class base ball games, usually played in the fall, have been postponed until spring with the object in view of creating greater rivalry and putting more spirit into a series of games which have attracted little interest hereto fore. The University nIne's treasury is well filled and part of the surplus is to be spent for temporary building 75 feet long, to be used for winter practice. The cost of the structure will be from $500 to $500.
 Among the instructors recently appointed are: w. E. Waters '78, tutor in Latin; Will liam Price 83, tutor in French; s. E. Bar ney, Ph. B., instructor in civil engineering; w. E Lockwood, M. D., assistant in chem Sfr e ha 1a1i iofo of 'S4 instructor in German. Prof. Rich ards is still in the Adirondacks It has just been announced that hereafter special honors will be given students who devote specified amount of time to eel tain branches of study. This is something of an innovation to Yale.