The evening world., 1890-07-01
OF THE ATHLETES.
The Reason OF Harvard's Poor
Showing Against Yale.
''Nunc" wallace Wants Another
$50" with the Colored wonder.

Several graduates of Harvard living in
this city when asked how they accounted
for Harvard's present poor showing in
athletics said il was because Harvard had
no Robert ]. Cook to teach them 10 row,
nor any Walter Camp TO instruct them in
football, and no class" or I" college ="
feeling to urge on her athletes to strain
every nerve to win. Each expressed him.
self like the others, and they undoubt-
eddy represent the true state of feeling
among both graduates and ~undergrsdu-
ates.
One of them said: This makes
Harvard's sixth consecutive defeat by
Yale at New London in the boat race.
The reason is perfectly plain to me. At
Harvard the whole crew has nothing more
stable to fall back upon than the vagaries
of some student coach who thinks he
knows II all. Yale has the advantage Of
one settled system of owing, with the
originator of that system as guardian
angel over their training.
I'm the old days, until the last five
years, Capt. Bancroft acted as the Bob
Cook of Harvard, and we used to win q
race once in q while. But the Faculty
objected to q coach who was not a stu
dent, 80 we have had to get along without
him latterly, or rather not get along.
Bancroft graduated from Harvard in the
class of 10.
The members of Harvard's athletic
teams do not work as hard as Yale's be-
cause they lack the incentive arising
from the desire of each of the four classes
to excel the others in prowess. A Fresh
man or Senior on Yale team or crew will
do his best to win glory for his class.
] nave often thought that the men on Har-
ward teams and crews care but little
whether they win or lose-the justly called
feeling of Harvard indifference As
long as this unworthy spirit prevails Har-
ward will never win"
The Scottish-American Athletic Club
will give exceptionally handsome medals
to the winners of their Fourth Of July
games. This step wa taken to secure o
brilliant array Of entries, and has proved
successful.
So we'll ~patronized are the lawn tennis
grounds of Central Park that IL IL iinpos-
sible to find space for q court after mid
day. An army Of tennis costumed ex-
perts cover the meadows. .
Private dispatches Il friends in this
city from American sports who witnessed
the recent Dixon Wallace mill say that
the E~nglishman feels very sore over his
defeat. and claims that he can do better
another time. II is said that he will aver
visit this country for the sake Of getting
on another match with the colored wonder
Of Boston.
The Manhattan Cricket Club. of Brook
lyn. now claims the championship of New
York by virtue of its many victories this
season. It was generally believed that
the Staten Islands would wear the title,
but the latter have been much discour-
aged by the loss Of several Of their best
men.
That was q pretty race which the plucky
four-oared senior shell crews Of the
Atalantas and Nonpareils rowed last even
ing on the Harlem. 1t wal nip and tuck
most of the distance. and the repeated
spurts of the Nonpareil BOYS to reduce
the lead of their antagonists elected
hearty rounds of applause from the boat
Ing men who thronged the lighthouses.
The Atalantas won by a length.