The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-11
YALE VERY STUBBORN.
TIE New Haven Football Team
Dictates to the Champions.
Still Determined Not 10 Play Here
Thanksgiving Day.
Princeton Too Hagnasimous In Deal
iag with Tricky Foes.

At 10 o'clock this morning the status OF
the Yule-PrinCeton football match was
this: Capt Trcnchard and Manager
Mum returned to Princeton, feeling that
in order to get on "A game with Yale at
all they would have to compromise on
just about every point. Capt. Hinkey re-
turned to New Haven late last night and
is now explaining Row he came to Kick
one Of his own men during the Yale-Will-
Jams game yesterday.
on account of the distance from
central point the bad luck that at
tended the Tigers there, and the belief
that the public will be timid about the
stands after the unfortunate experience
OF 1s9O-Eastern Park will not be CON
sdcred by Princeton. Yale is stubborn
about playing on Manhattan Field, the
most accessible and cheapest place Of
fered.
The compromise offered is Ambrose
Park This spot has been trampled over,
every inch of it, by several hundred
horses al summer Even i 1t should be
ploughed, narrowed. raked, scraped,
loan surface laid over II, 1t Will still be
a gravel bed instead of grassy grid
iron. At this time of year 1t Will be
impossible to have any sort of turf ready
in six weeks so an uptown gardener
who makes specially of forcing lawns,
said last night
\ larger stand will have to be erected
at Ambrose Park, and as the seats there
are built with view to enabling speCta-
tors TO see men mounted on horses and
not struggling for touchdowns, other
alterations would he necessary before a
suitable fotball amphitheatre can be pre-
pared there. Additional reasons are the
improbability of securing adequate police
attendance, the natural prejudice against
going over to Long Island to see the
big match. crossing ferries or the bridge
AMI entering another line OF cars and
the etra time consumed in getting to and
from such foreign spots.
Berkeley oval is badly situated as re-
CARDS facilities for deporting the great
crowd after the game, one experience
there having prejudiced many football
lovers. Manhattan Field is in the best
shape ii ever was. The field has been
underlaid with drains and made more
convex. the surf is in absolutely per-
feet condition. not a foot Of it uncov
cred by strong firm grass, because no
practice games have been permitted
there this Fall Above all, 1t is now
offered to the collegians at one-third
the regular rate, viz, 5000.
1t is by all odds the most accessible
place. and the great matches played
there have all gone of smoothly and
without an accident or hitch.
Nale's real reason for refusing to play
at Manhattan Field is not generally
known, bue personal pique enters largely
into It. A year ago the assistant man
ager OF the Yale team was requested to
withdraw from the side lines during the
Nalc-PennsylVania game. where he and
half dozen of the nondescript crowd of
substitutes coaches and college officials
had gathered. 1t was expressly under
stood that nobody should stand along
the side lines on the south side of the
field, for the spectators who had paid
big prices for seats in the front rows
of the grand stand could not see the
plays If this space was occupied.
The princeton men and some of the
. yale hpplprS went over TO the north
side, where they obstructed nobody's
view, but Assistant Manager Gable, of
on the south side Finally the manager
of Manhattan Field and a couple of po-
licemen touched Mr., Gable on the Shout
der and told him he would have. to
lofty official position he held, Mr.. Cable
said:
This year MIR. Cable succeeded to
the managership Of the Yale team and
he won't have the game played at the
most reasonable and most accessible
spot on account of his ruiiied temper
! last season.
| As to the date of the big match,
Yale is equally obstinate and ,dicta-
or you don't get a game" says Little
! Boy Blue, Hitherto Yale has played
Harvard on the Saturday before Thanks
giving Day, and Princeton on Thanks
!
a time-honorcd one, for which prepara>
| tons are made by thousands weeks in
! Glyance. Ten times out of fourteen
/ Yale has won both games. Now, she
quotes the late Commodore Wander
] but famous expression.
If any date We're to he changed the
Harvard date should he selected. say
princeton men, and the public generally
sides with this view. The Thanksgiving
4 Day game at New York has become on
/ American classic, and II will not he
81 ngt
by the alumni and the patrons of the
game In general
! There Is an unwritten law that Yale
and Princeton will play I'm New York or
that holiday. The Harvard game Is a
matter Of choice between the Yale and
Harvard managers. 1t makes practically
no difference to the public, the teams. the
hotels and shop keepers in Snringficlt
whether the match is played Saturday
Nov. II, or Saturday Nov. ~ Harvart
has no game scheduled from Nov. 10 tC
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But Yale, the second in line, insists