Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
YALE NEWS.

Track Athleflcs-Au of. Last Years
 Team Hack But Williams and
 Ryder-Another Coxe to Throw the
 Hammer-The Exeter Club Elects
 Its Officers for the Year-A Bicycle
 Club to be Formed on the Plan of
 Yale,s old One-The New Men on
 the Glee Club.
 The track is rapidly getting into good condition. It is rolled and watered every day and begins to be quite fast. Dole, the trainer, thinks that it will be over three seconds faster before the end of the sea- son. The new house, though sadly de- layed, is now nearing completion and when the staircase is finished and a final coat of paint put on, it will be nearly ready for use. The team has sustained great loss this year in the graduation of Williams, the holder of the worlds record at the ! high hurdles, and Ryder, who has twice broken the intercollegiate records at Yale vaulting. There are hopes, however, that the freshman class will develop some good | track athletes, and the new feature of holding freshman games in the fall has | been adopted for that reason. The men on last years team who are l back this term are aslfollows: Lassell and Jones in the sprints, Leonard and Scoville l in the quarter and Wright in the half 1 Wright, the captain of the team, it will be remembered, holds the intercollegiate | championship for the half mile this year, l and also broke the Yale record last spring. In the mile A. Williams, Ellsworth and Curtis all did good work last year. Will Hams especially developed well, showing l form equal to 4:35 in several races. It is l feared that Curtis, who holds the Andover | record in the mne, will not run this year on account of hesrt trouble. 1 Yale will be represented in the hurdles l by Van Ingen and Lyman and in the pole
 vault by Briggs and Cartwright. All 1 in the Ya1esHarvard meeting or at the 1 Intercollegiate. In the high and broad l jump are Mitchell and Hammond. There are also some men in the freshman class from whom very much is expected. Coxe, a brother of Coxe of 'S7, who was 1 for long time the holder of the intercol- 1 legiate record at hammer-throwing, is in college this year. He has been carefully coached by his brother and will probably l do good work with the hammer this spring. ! Allen and Sanford, both '94 S., are men | who are counted on for the short distances next year. Day, Goss and Stoughton, all ! N-A | der training.
 | The Exeter club held meeting Wednes- | day evening and the following officers were | elected: President, Colt '92; vice-president,
 Hammond '92 S.; secretary and treasurer, A. P. Lord '93.
 Efforts are being made to start bicycle 1 club ct Yale to promote both safety and
 high wheel riding in connection with the l Athletic association It is hoped that in
 this way material may be trained for the l bicycle races.
 The following new men have been ap-
 pointed to the Glee club: First tenors,
 Morris, '92, and Nolan, '94; second tenors,
 Cravens, '93, Green, '93, Bartlett, '94, and
 Cole, GAS. In thefrst bass no new men
 were chosen, in the second bass Reyes, '92,
 and Swayne, '93.
 The N. Y. A. c. hold their annual games
 and ladies' day on Saturday, October IF, al
 Travers-I Island on -the-Sound. The games
 are scratch, with the exception of the ,00(
 run, which will be handicap. Admission
 is by invitation only, and large crowd is
 expected. Most of the Yale athletic team
 are members of the N. Y. A. O., but few
 will go down Saturday on account of lack
 of training.
 l MerIden Man Skips With $1,5OO. MER1DEN, Oct. 15.-Hugo Croker, book
 keeper and agent for Rawitzer Brothers
 mill, has skipped with $1, 800 of the frm'l
 money.