The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-25
Drawn OF THE COLLEGE.
MAY 81 A RED LETTER DAY
AMONG ATHLETES.

Princeton, Columola ana OtnSr Ool-
leres to Battle for Supremacy-Some
Team Leaders.
CCopwightD
NEW YORK, May 24.-Memorable days
and full of high hopes and sanguine antici-
nations have rounded out the last ten weeks
among the hundreds of track athletes at
the various colleges. Many feats of strength
and swiftness have stirred the enthusiastic
gatherings on the college green to unstinted
applause. Never did contestants train more
rigidly in advance of the Olympian games
than these brawny college lads have done
N preparation for the supreme test of
skill, speed and endurance, which takes
place next week. when all the leading col
leges will be pitted against each other in
the great intercollegiate tourney at the
Berkeley Oval in New York City. More
interesting even than the championship
series which is to follow, for the intercolle-
giate decides who, of all the men from the
half dozen leading colleges, are entitled to
enter the final struggle for the higher
honors, and the work of selection brings
out a greater field than any other battle of
the year.
The intercollegiate meeting OF May 81
will be the eighteenth that has taken place
since college track athletics received their
first impulse in 1872. The meeting IN that
year was held at Saratoga. These
were the days when Yale's doughty
men Of muscle took almost all
the prizes IN athletic sports, for the other
colleges had not then awakened to the i'm
portance Of a system of physical culture be-
You'd simple calisthenics. In 1874 and 1915,
Yale CAPTURED the honors at the lntercolle-
giates In the liter year, Gale, OF 1873,
male the finest amateur jump on record up
TO that date, clearing five feet three inches.
Sprinilng was then but little practiced, and
long distance walks were the order OF the
day-three miles and seven miles being the
popular distances.
From 1877 to 1850 Yale sent no represen-
tatives TO the meetings, and athletics at the
famous old college seemed to be on the
waue From 1880 on Harvard. which had
gradually forged to the front, maintained Der
lesd. and when the Mott Haven cup, which
had been put up for competition by all the
colleges, was captured at Harvard, with
Columbia second aud Yale weak third, it
was believed among college men that the
tide had turned and that thenceforth
the glory of Yale had departed. Aud it
certainly looked like it; for Harvard,
through superior skill and splendid team
or animation, contrived to hold the trophy
for thirteen successive years until last
season, when Yale again succeeded in win
ming it. with the New York college pushing
her closely for the victory. The old Mott
Haven cup will no longer be the prize for
which the athletes will struggle, however,
for this year it will be replaced by hand
some new cup. presented by the Berkeley
assoc alton, the old trophy going perma-
nently to Harvard
Besides Harvard, Yale and Columbia,
III Al
front as a formidable adversary in track
sports, will be one of the chief competitors
at the intercollegiate. Williams, too, will
have a representation, and SO will Amherst
and Pennsylvania. But, as might be ex-
pected, the four great colleges will pretty
much nonopolze attention with their finely
trained teams and their men of proves, for
each of the four can boast a champion.
First comes Harvard, winner of many VIC
tories, better disciplined and claiming to
be stronger than ever. Harvard's strength
lies in her team work: there are fewer stars
among her men than the other colleges may
be able to boast, but they all fear her as
rival, nevertheless. Her strongest mel are
III. L. Green and G. R. Fearing, Jr., both of
whom are noted runners and jumpers; W.
c. Downes, the great quarter runner /;
O. w. Shea, new man who is said to be a
phenomenal shct-putter, and Greenleaf,
who holds the bicycle record.
Yale. as In former years, places much re-
lance on the work of individual members
of her crews. The lessons she has received
do not seem to lave altered her policy in
this particular. She comes to the front
this year with teams that possess many ele-
ments of undoubted strength, although
some of the members are as yet undevel-
oped, as far as record-making is concerned.
Harmar, her famous mile-runner, is gone,
and so Is Shearman, who won for her the
broad-jumping championship. G. II. Sher-
rlll, probably the greatest of amateurs at
the 100-yard run, and the winner of the
amateur championship in 1887 at both that
distance aud 200 yards, is the recognized
leader of the Yale phalanx. He has a
record of 10 seconds for the 100 yards.
which he renewed a week ago at the twelfth
annual spring games at New Haven. F.
W. Robinson, of 80, is also reliable Yale
sprinter, and Williams, another famous
Splinter, has the record at 220 yards in 81
seconds.
Princeton comes to the contest with a
uniformly strong and well balanced list
which includes Luther Cary, who will be
SherrilPs competitor in the 100-yard run
p. Vredenburgh, another capital runner
w. {. Dohm, one of the swifrest men at a
quarter-mie in the amateur field, and H.
II. Janeway, who took the shot-putting
prize last year, with record of IS feet
lncL6S. IL Is larry certain That Princeton
viii not be left out when the awards are
made.
Columbia has had many difficulties to
contend with in athletic matters In the
first place she has never had proper gym
nasium or exercising ground, and this,
together with the fact that her men are
usually entered in college at a much
younger age than is the case in other col
leges, puts Ter at a decided disadvantage.
Still, she enters the intercollegiate
contest with the strong hope Of winning
at. least one trophy, and DOS
sibly two. In the broad jumping con.
test it is claimed that there is no one who
can hold his own with Victor Mapes of
Columbia, unless it be A. H. Green of
Harvard. Mapes has record of clearing
% feet inches. while Green at recent
trial made 81 feet inches. The New Yorl
college has chance, too, of holding LITTLE
better than her own in the tug of war, for
which her team has been steadily practicine
for several weeks past Herbert Mapes, a
brother of Victor, the jumper, is relied upon
to pull through in toe 120-yard hurdle
race. although he will be pitted
against such good men as Fearing and
Brown of Harvard, and Williams and
Deming of Yale. He won this event last
year. but be will have to beat his own rec
ord TO repeat his triumph now.
Pennsylvania and Amherst are not as
ambitious as their bigger and better-trainec
competitors, but still tnev expect to make