The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-25
THE COLLEGE ATHLETES.
May 31st Will be a Red Letter
Day for College
Drawn.
Teams From Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton, Columbia, Pennsylvania
and Amherst.
Harvard Places Her Reliance ON Team
Work, While Yale Develops Stars
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! New York. May 2l.-Memorable days and
full of high hopes and sanguine anticipa-
tions have rounded ont the last ten wee 10
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strength and swiftness have stirred the en-
thusiastic gatherings on the college green
to unstinted arrlansa Newer ala contast
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m aM's 'la'n more i,eiuly IN advance OF the
lads have done in preparation for the SUI
preme test Of skill. speed and endurance,
which takes place next week, when all the
leading colleges will be pitted against each
other in the great intercollegiate tourney at
interesting even than the championship
series which ia to follow. for the intercolr
legiate 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 greater field than any other battle 81
the year.
The intercollegiate meeting of Nav II
will be the eighteenth that has taken blaze
since college track athietios received their
wear was held at Saratoga. These were the
DAYS when Yale's donrhtv man Of muscle
took almost ali the prizes in athletic sports.
for the other colleges had not then awaks
ical culture bevond simnie caIisthenicat II
1874 and 1871. Yale cantnred tha bnnora -
the intercolleciates. in the iatter venr
Gale, of rs, made the finest amateur Yumn
on record up to that date. clearing five feet
three inches. Sprintino WINS theI, but little
practiced, and long distance walks were the
order of the dayNthree miles and sevan
miles being the popular distances. '0'en
From 1877 to 1850 Yale sent no renre.
ha to o tae ooese and
the wane. From 1880 On. Harvard. which
| had uralnailv foraed ~ Tho fr",,t , won
tanned her lead. and when the Mott Haua,,
cup which had been nut up for competit;on
by all the colleges, was captured by Haryard.
with Columbia second and YaIa a waaI
third. IL was beiieved among COLLAGE man
that the tide had Turned ana that thanca-
forth the glory Of Yale had denarted Ard
it certainly looked like Il: for Harvard
through superior skili and sniend;d taar,
ORGANIZATION. contriyed to hold the tr"nhv
for thirteen successive years ninth
last season. when Yale AGAIN snc-
ceeded in winning Il. with the NaSy
York college pushing her closely for tha
longer be the prize for which the athletes
will struggle, however, for this year it will
be replaced by handsome new Gun. nre.
sented by the Berkeley association, the old
trophy going permanently to Harvard.
Besides Harvard, Yale and Columbia,
front as a formidable adversary in track
SPORTS will be one of the chief compekI
tors at the intercollegiate. Williams too,
will have a representation and SO will
Amherst and Pennsylvania. But, as might
pretty much monopolize attention with
their finely trained teams and their men
of prowess, for each of the four
can boast champion. First comes
les, 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 NAV
be able to boast, but they all fear her as a
II. l.. Green and g. Il. Fearing. Jr.. both
of whom are noted runners and iumpers:
w. G. Downes, the great auarter-mile run,
ner: O. W. Shea n new man who 10 On; ii r.
be q phenomenal shot-putter, and Green.
leaf, who holds the bicycle record.
Yale, as in former years, places much re-
lance on the work of individual memberso Of
her crews. The lessons she has received do
not seem to have altered her policy in this
particular. She comes to the front this
year with teams that possess many elemental
of undoubted strength, although some ~
the members are as vet undeveioped. as far
as record-making il concerned. Harmar.
her famous mile-runner, is gone. and 10 =
Shearman, who won for her the broad
jumping championship. G. II. Sheriff..
probably the gieatest of amateurs at the
1OO-yard run and the winner of the amateur
championship in 1887 at both that distance
and 200 yards, ia the recognized leader of
the Yale phalanx. He has a record of 10
seconds for the 100 Yards. which he ra-
newed week ago at the twelfth animal
spring games at New Haven. Wiiliams
another famous Splinter. has the record at
22O yards in ~ seconds. =
Princeton comes to the contest with
uniformly strong and well-balanced list
which includes Luther Cary. who will he
Sherrill's chief competitor in the Toward
run: p VredenburUh anotharca r;tnI 49,
ner; W. q. Dohm, one of the swiftest men
NJ quarter OF a mile in the amateur field,
ana II. n. Janeway, who took the shot
putung prize last year, with record of 36
[eet inches. 1t Is fairly certain that
frinceton will not be left out when the
awards are made
Coiumoia mas had many difficulties to
contend with In athletic matters, In the
hrst place, she has never had a proper gym
nasium or exercising ground, and this, to-
gether with the fact that her men are usu-
ally entered in college at a much younger
age than is the case in other colleges, puts
her at q decided disadvantage. Still, she
enters the intercollegiate contest with tha