The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-25

van oil the Princeton betting contingent.
He got even money that Yale would
not score twenty points, and offered
one to three and four that Yale would
win. He got few takers on this latter
basis. However, as the Yale men did
not care to bet that way, the spectators
were early on hand and selling admis-
sion at s. and 81 with swollen eyes,
husky voices and tired limbs.
The vicious shouters for Yale and
Princeton tumbled out OF their beds
this morning and in perfunctory man
ner made ready for the most exciting
event Of the college year; As the morn
ing advanced the neighborhood OF the
big hostelry in the center OF the city
were rapidly filed and the common
everyday resident had to take to the
streets ii he desired TO move rapidly
from one point TO another. The Fifth
Avenue hotel seemed the centre OF at
traction for the townsmen and collie
giates. All the Yale team was there
with its small army OF coachers, rub.
bers and trainers. and after a frugal
meal they strolled into the corridors,
where they were immediatelysurround-
ed by pushing, swaying crowd OF
young men who wanted personal
glimpse OF the men who were intended
to carry the blues to victory. All sorts
OF questions were fred at the smiling
athletes, and then coachers and train
ers were rounded up and corralled in a
corner OF the big reading-room. The in
formation given, while not of boastful
nature, was colored with go much self
reliance that even the Tigers who had
been drawn into the maelstrom were
forcibly impressed.
INSPIRING SCENES.
Tho greatest crowd at 10 O'Clock was
in tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, but the
noisicst was in the Art Gallery and the
corridors OF the Hoffman House. II was
in the latter place that the yellow and
black gathered in the largest numbers,
and they we're go outspoken in their
confidence that from time to time Billy
Edwards had to request them to move
on, gentlemen, move on; you are block
ing the passage way" One resort after
another was visited, and in going TO and
iro the students marched like military
regularity and sangand shouted us they
marched. Sometimes it happened that
crowd OF Tigers would pass string Of
Yalensians, and then the way they
hooted each other was caution. At
times bevy of Harvard men, wearing
long ulsters, alpine hats, decorated with
crimson, and carrying huge canes,
would unconscieusly drift into the
channel OF the shouters, and then, in
stead OF defiant cries, the intruders
would be greeted with long drawn
groans and bull frog grunts. The saloon
keepers, ss a rule, acting on the exper-
fences of previous years. either did not
display any colors at all, else showed
their good will to both colleges by
mingling the blue with the yellow and
black behind their bars.
The average citizen might have
thought that after making the rounds
last night all the sporting stamina OF
the college boys would have oozed out,
but brief tour OF the hotels this morn
ing would have removed that impress
sion. -Four hours sleep, cocktail and
hearty breakfast had done wonders.
Though some were well bruised and
battered, they were still in the ring,
and they hustled to either put their
last dollars or else to keep appoint
ments with the young ladies who were
to lend SO much color and beauty to
Manhattan field this afternoon.
FORECASTS.
At II O'clock the coaches were to ar
rive at the hotel and the interim was
devoted to discussion of the merits OF
the teams. 1t was widely believed that
Yale had the superior team and it was
limited that she would spring some new
tricks this afternoon, which would
completely demoralize the Princetons.
She has clean score for the Jeason and
her great ambition this afternoon was
not go much to win the game as to make
a total, which would send the Tigers
back to Princeton feeling very blue in
deed. Many conservative Princeton
men said that defeat was inevitable and
the only question to be decided was the
size OF the score.
The scene in Madison Square, 'front.'
ing tho Fifth Avenue hotel and the
Hoffman House, at IL o'clock was one
never to be forgotten. Coach after
coach dashed up or passed by, the seats
on top being crowded with pretty girls
and shouting students. Fish horns
made the welkin ring, and the sides of
the vehicles and the trappings OF the
horses we're almost hidden beneath the
colors OF their respective colleges. By