New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-26
GREAT SPORT EXPECTED.
THE INTERCOLLEGIATE CONTESTS TO-
DAY
ATHLETES FROM MANY INSTITUTIONS TO
STRUGGLE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP HoNoRs
IT BERKELEY OVAL.

The intercollegiate athletic contests which will
take place on the Berkeley oval to-day promise to
furnish Of the best amateur sport seen IN this
country In recent years. The best athletes from
the leading colleges will vie for victory with each
other and VIII strive to win the much-coveted
championship for the institutions they represent.
II seems to be the general opinion that the nrst
honors lie between Harvard and Yale, with a
slight preference for Yale Pennsylvania Will be
represented by the strong team which oVercame
the Princeton Tigers, ami many broad-chested men
will carry the Orange and Black and also the
Blue OF Columbia. The New-York University and
the College of the city OF New-York will each
have team. Cornell and Brown University the
remaining contestants. expected to make good
showing.
Yac's greatest strength lies in the field contests,
a. she IS wel.-nigh invnc.be in the weights with
W O. Hckok. the giant guard Of the football team.
Harvard IS strong in the sprints hurdles and DIS
tanccs races
The games will begin at 20 a. m. The preliminary
contests NIL take place In the morning. The finals
VIII take place In the afternoon, beginning at
O'Clock. a great many tickets have been sold and,
II the weather IS fair, large attendance is ex-
pccted
Following are some Of the leading contestants:
loo-yarI dash-A p Graver. H. D. McAulty. G.
r. swan r. w. Align KalPR P (S,T.h and II Il:
=. las P4ldro,. {. +. smith HaryaTd; Ram,sdeL.
nuchoH Middleton; Uniyersity OF PennsyiyDainia;
eao-yari dash-s X Gerard C. Gillette. Yale;
5 VI Merrill. p das Padro Harvard Il. y. jamie
son. g. r. swan. H. Cross Princeton ct, w. j. Clarke
bia. Tupn Freeman. Ramsdell University Of
Qaarter-miic rum. T. Hldreth. s. NJ Merrill.
Harvard. g. = sanford. Yale: Turpln. Warren
Freeman. University Of Pennsylvania Swan Robh
Gcr rlP'!ia,'' r. r spics Columbia.
.Hafmile run W 5 woodruff Yale; F. Hollister
versity 81 Pennsylyania, II. r. kingsley NJ Spaud-
ing. \ L. Marvin Coumhla; IL; { Broka"' J. H.
one mile run-H. r. Kingsley J. f. Leech, r. H.
Bacon G9luW 61 HsaloG i co pg9se P VI
Carson. Harvard. Greene. orton. University OF
6ae-'miis wiki 5. Bunnell, Yale; J, D. Phillips
Dew H'ara Me9S'on' V whSeeT yc 81 rSaa
j, ! Jcakas. .. v. ziesle,r, P,5rincetog. s.n,r,
cdggy 9r 4yTf r s W n h' Wilson Princs9on
= H. cady d. Lyman; Yale ": r, G4 p,nion
Munro &ry3 Va Made,9n; sylvester
24o-yard hurdle racc-W +. Do salazar, J. H.
| ton; Rebenack Sylvester Middleton University OF
Pennsylvania; il. W Jameson J. L. Bremen; ". F.
Two-rnne bicycle race & Heirch. " H.
Glenny Yale " r. Brinksrh Pir, r 5; ELIOT
| \. Leland. 4. ". Jameson. J. b. corser, Prince
itunnns high jump. J: Paine. a. stlcknesy.
! Harvard J. II. Thompson, Yale Ferguson Leslie
f.. Burke, Columbia, r. Weber. J. D. Jones Prince
ga ag9s EEoa Rogs R. arre n" r5ce HemT %a4
| rem RamsGeu. Rlebenack University OF Pennsyl-
vanla: l.. + sheldon Yale; II. NJ Wheelwright
! l.. h. Bloss Harvard
Pole ,yauI, n. Thopas. u. Il Kershaw;, G. n
| Allen Yale. Bucholz Latrobe, University OF Penn
sylvanl; 4. 9. TYLER, II. +. Sill. Princeton; +. H.
! Bowman \ l.. Smith. Columbia. 49,
Throwing the siXteen-pound hammer-W. Hickok
| H. J.. cross. c. chadwick. Yale Knox Taylor F.
! u Riggs. Princeton; Knife, Wharton, Brooke. Uni
! versliy 81 Pennsylvania.
Putting the sixteen pound shOt-A. L. Wheeler,
! =: T. Elwards Knox Taylor Princeton; n Brown
W.
| Brooke. University OF Pennsylvania; y. Chatfed, b.
! Culgn VI J. Johnson B. +. Burger, r. q. Ship
/ man. J. Byrnes. Columbia.
The officials f9r he Games are. ......,. ,,,,..
| Judges. G. i. Math, wson University Athletic CluO
! NJ W. Ford and J. f. Sullivan. y. J. 4 G.; timers
! C. G. Hughes. C. \. Reed. r. S,oI. y. 7. A. c.;
! T. VI Wood. Boston A. c.; judge of walking, Frank
! i. Murray. Ntw-Nork; inspectors Mortimer Bishop
| pas,ime y. c.. J. IL. Booth. y. y a G, +. Cush-
| ing Crescent \. c.. Walton storm. 81 George A. c..
| clerk 81 course. :. J. Council, New York announcer
! Fred W. Burns. New-York; starter George D.
| Turner NewYork
Several Of the athletic teams arrived here yester
| dav The Harvard men went 20 the Windsor Hotel
! James q. Lathrop the Harvard athletic trainer who
! has prepared many teams for victory, tod a IT'D
| une reporter that he VAS confident that me Doys
| who wore the crimson would win. captain w heel-
| wright also confident OF victory. Inc ale team
| we're al the Murray Hill Hotel and nine or the
| Princeton team there a,so. The rest or the
| Tigers will come here this morning. The Brown
University team were AZ the Broadway central
! The Executive Committee Of the intercollegiate
Athletic Association met AZ the Flfth Avenue Hotel
| last evening 20 make final arrangements for the
/ The GROUND n nOa-attendance At college, was
oulshel The University of Michigan was suspended
| for non-paym6nt of dues. and It's men VIII not be
| allowed to contest in the games.