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

At 10 o'clock this morning the status VI
the Yale-Princeton football match was
this: Capt. Trenchard and Manager
Mum returned to Princeton, FEELING thht
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, ana
is now explaining how he came to KICK
one of his own men during the fale-Wlll-
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 1890, Eastern Park will not be con-
sidered by Princeton Yale is stubborn
about playing, on Manhattan fleiu, tne
most accessible and cheapest place OF
fered. .,o
Park This spot has been trampled over,
every inch OF II, by several hundred
horses all Summer Even II 1t should be
ploughed, narrowed, raked, scraped and
loan surface laid over IT. 1t will still be
iron. At this time OF year 1t VIII be
impossible to have any sort OF turf ready
in six weeks, so an uptown gardener
A 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 be necessary before a
suitable football 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 extra time consumed In getting to and
from such foreign spots.
Berkeley Oval u badly situated as re-
cards facilities for deporting the great
crowd after the game. one experience
there FEED IN tho
shape 1t ever was The field has been
underlaid with drains and made more
convex. the turf is in absolutely per
feet condition, not a foot OF 1t 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 off smoothly and
without an accident or hitch.
Yale's real reason for refusing to play
at Manhattan Field is not generally |
into it.. A year ago the assistant man
ager of the Yale team was requested to
withdraw from the side lines during the
Yale-Pennsylvania game, where he and
a half dozen OF the nondescript crowd OF
substitutes, coaches and college officials |
had gathered. 1t was expressly under !
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 IL this space was occupied
The Princeton men and some OF the
Yale heelers went over to the north
side. where they obstructed nobodys
view. but Assistant Manager Gable, OF
Yale, refused to leave the vantage spot
on the south side. Finally the manager
of Manhattan Field and a couple of po-
lieemen touched Mr.. Gable on the shout !
der and told him he would have to
move. Without telling them what
lofty official position he held, Mr.. Gable
You don't know who you are talking
This year Mr.. Cable succeeded to
he won't have the game played at the
most reasonable and most accessible
spot on account OF his ruffied temper
last season.
AS to the date of the big match,
Yale is equally obstinate and dicta-
torial play when and where say
Boy y0 blue Hitherto Yale s sss' payas s
Harvard on the Saturday before Thanks
giving Day, and Princeton on Thanks
giving Day, and the affair has become
a. time-honored one, for which prepara-
tons are made by thousands weeks In
advance. Ten times out OF fourteen
Yale has won both games. Now, she
quotes the late Commodore Wander
bits famous expression.
II any date were to be changed the
Harvard date should be selected, say
princeton men, and the public generally
SIDES with this view. The Thanksgiving
Day game At New York has become an
American classic. and 1t will not he
abandoned without a vigorous protest
by the alumni and the patrons OF the
game In general.
There is an unwritten lay that Yale
that holiday. The Harvard game is a
matter Of choice between the Yale and
Harvard managers. 1t makes practically
no dinerence to the public. the teams. the
hotels and shopkeepers in Springfield
whether the match is played Saturday,
Nov. II, or Saturday, Nov. "A. Harvard
1 mas no game scheduled from Nov. 10 to
But Yale. the second in line. insists
mat princeton. the champion team, shall
yield to her wishes and fly In the face
of public Indignation by foregoing the
great annual Thanksgiving Day game.
keeping her men in training week or
ten days beyond the ordinary period
and that Princeton. which does not get
chance to have a game with Harvard
shall Furthermore lose about $1,000 net. as
the diminished share of the receipts of
the Yale game. There is lit tie likelihood
thaemor than one-half the usual num-
berswill witness the match II played on
some day subsequent to Thanksgiving
Day, and the lucre win shrink in pro.
portion.
Princeton's real reason in not stand
ing by her natural prerogatives as
champion and siding with the universal
wish OF the public and her own alumni
is her fear that Yale will petulantly
say: There, play when and where we
say or We won play at all and Wen
form dual league with Harvard in
football, az We have in rowing ath-
letjes and baseball, and you won't be
IN II with the College Athletic Arstoc-
racy."
That Princeton would be universally
supported In calling this blum nobody