The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-13
ODDS AND ENDS or SPORT.

Josh" Hartwell. $50, is coaching the Yale
crew.
There 10 to b a three-day athletic tour nament
during the Worlds fair vt Chicago under A. A.
L. auspices
At Christiana, January 30. In the snowshoe
derby, Lieut. Roll, Norwegian. leaped seventy
feet In q running jump contest
Los Angeles aud Riverside will play lacrosse
match on Washington's birthday for the cham
plonship of Southern California.
During the past year the Harvard athletic
organ ixstiOn. took in gate money nearly &c.,
COZ. All Of this but ABOUT s. 900 was used up in
expenses
The property of tho Staten Island Athletic
Club was bought in 1T auction by Eocrhard
Faber, the mortgage. Mr. Faber will now lease
the house aud grounds to the club at lair
rental.
D. X Vail. captain OF the Harvard crew, IL not
yet able to 60 into training, Or account o: the
injury to his knee, which kept him from rowing
last year. Sixteen men are now training for the
junior crew.
The oxford Boat Club has decided not to &C.
cept Cornell's challenge to row . race in the
United States. The oxford club will ask for
further details OF the proposed race to b rowsd
ut Chicago during the Worlds fair.
Yale has built new boat house on Lake
Whitney and will keep . she'll there. 1t took
several years before the permission of the New
Haven water company could be secured, - the
city is furnished water from the lake
silver cup has been offered at Yale to the
class which shall make the largest number of
points In any one OF the athletic meets which
shall b decided upon. II shall become the
property OF the class winning IL three years in
succession.
Stanford university viii likely send q crew 20
compete in the international boat races at the
Words fair This il only the second year that
stanford has had . crew, but there 10 . great
deal OF interest taken and great things are ex-
pected of the crew.
The reasons why Yale declined the Offer to
take part in the Chicago regatta next summer
are the uncertainty of a race in which many
crews compete, and mainly the disagreeable ne
cessity of continuing training 20 long after the
race with Harvard.
An attempt Is being made to get up an inter
national footrace at Chicago during the Worlds
fair II 10 not apt 10 receive sny substantial
support, as the professional footracer 10 com
monty looked upon A. confidence man, who
wine only when 1t pays BEST
The business of the Man attan Athletic Club
il icing conducted en- . cash basis by the re-
ceiver. When = member wants q drink or . eli
gar he can no longer sign . check for IL, bui
must produce the coin. There 10 now $4,000
owing from mem oers for house bills.
At both Oxford aud Cambridge universities
practice Tor the great Suaual esXut-Oered race -
now going on The race may be rowed on
"Wednesday, March -, on which date IL would
bs high water at Pu,ney fridge ~ 5:33 p m,
which would 30 II ore favorable than sstur.
day. March -
The Cornell crew men are working like
beavers Every day behind locked doors the
freshman aud varsity candidates work the ma.
chimes: then at $50 all take a long run together
and at an early hour turn in TO bed. The num-
bar OF freshman candidates has been reduced
10 sixteen and that of the varsity to twelve
President Garfield. of the National Association
of Amateur oarsmen OF America. believes tha,
representative French crew will De sent TO a IL
country this year. The recent eight-oared shell
race between English aud French crews. in
which the former WAS ovsrv ne mingly defeated,
hn, awakened q great interest IN the proposed
event
The freezing OF the Psssiae river has brous BIT
10 lisht ,hss the mile and bali rscing course 10
fifteen feet short IL appears tina, the course
ba. no, been measured since ISL. and for some
rez.ou the finish line has hesu shifted up aud
down the river. the original mark having been
lost sight Of The shorsuess OF the course will
have tie effect OF upsstsing she Passisc Reg alta
Associations recorda
TIE comp&sticn Of the rowing tank in the
Yale gymnasium permits the faie crews 10 get
down to hard work. James ". Aadsus, the
usvy's ;anltsr, has built new tank boat II 10
.isai AZ 70 the one he built IN iSss, which wss
the frs. o! that class o. hoats made IL 10
,uenty-seven tess ak inches long. seventeen
inches wide built Of plank and strongly b.aced
sua bol;ei The measurements OF the rigging
correspond With the shs4l used At New London
last June. Tue foot-resu and seats are readily
adj astxeleI