The evening world., 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 Of
the Yale-Princeton football match was
this Capt Trenchard and Manager
Mum returned to Princeton. feeling mat
in order TO get on game with huIe 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 Row he came 10 KICK
one of his own men during the lale-N Ill
Jams game yesterday.
ON account of the distance from
central point, the bad luck that at
tended the Tigers there, and the Delef
that the public will be timid about the
stands after the unfortunate experience
of 1890 Eastern Park will not be col-
sidered by Princeton. Yale Is stubborn
about playing on Manhattan Fleld, the
most accessible and cheapest place OIL
fered. ~
Park This spot has been trampled oyer,
every inch of 1t, by several hundred
horses all Summer Even If 1t should be
ploughed, narrowed raked, scrapei ana
loan surface laid over IL, 1t VIII Sun be
a gravel bed, instead of grassy GRID
iron. At this time of year 1t VIII b"
impossible to have any sort of tufi rcndy
In six weeks, so an uptown gardener
who makes a specially of forcing lawns,
said last night;
A larger stand will have to be erected
at Ambrose Park, and ds the seats there
are built with a view to enabling spectu-
tors to see men mounted on horses and
not struggling for touchdoWns, other
alterations would ne necessary bCIur" 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 tn"
big match, crossing ferries or the bridge
AM entering another line of cars ana
the extra time consumer in getting to ana
from such foreign spots.
Berkeley Oval Is badly situated as re-
CARDS facilities for deportlng the great
crowd after the game, one experience
there having prejudlced many football
lovers. Manhattan Field Is in the best
shape It ever was. The field has been
underlaid with drains and made more
convex, the .Tf rs in absolutely per-
feet condition, not 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 colegians 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
known, but personal p,que 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
Yale-Pennsylvanla game. where he and
substitutes, coaches and college officials
had gathered. II 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 II this space was occupied.
The Princeton men and some Of the
hHPlDTH
side. where they obstructed nohody's
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-
licemen touched MIR. Gable on ihe shoul-
der and told him he would have to
lofty official position he held. Mr.. Gable
said:
You don't know who you are talking
This year Mr.. 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 ruiTed temper
last season.
AS to the date Of the big match.
Yale Is equally obstinate and dicta-
torial; nPlay when and where ] say,
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-honored one, for which prcpHra.
tions are made by thousands weeks In
adyance. Ten times out of fourteen
Yale has won both games. Now. she
quotes the late Commodore Wander
bits famous expression.
III any date were to be changed the
Harvard date should he selected, say
Pr.nceton men. and the public generally
sides with this view. The Thanksgiving
!'ay game At New York has become aU
american american classlc. and it will not he
,t...HN
by the alumni and the patrons of the
game in general.
There is an unwritten law that Yale
that holiday. The Harvard game is n
matter Of choice between the Yale and
HarYard managers. 1t makes practically
hotels and shopkecpers in Springfield
wheth2r the match Is played Saturday,
Nov. II, or Saturday, Nov "A. Harvard
has no game scheduled from Nov. 10 to
But Yale, the second in line insists
that Princeton, the champion team, shall
yield 70 her wishes and fly in the face
of public Indignation by foregoing the
great annual Thanksgiving Day game,
Keeping her men In training week OF
ten days beyond the ordinary period,
and that Princeton, which does not get
a chance TO have a game with Harvard,
shall Furthermore lose about ST. 900 net. as
the diminished share of the receipts OF
the Yale game There is little likelihood
that more than one-haif the usual nun.
ber will witness the match if played on
some day subsequent to Thanksgiving
Day, and the lucre viii shrink In pro,
portion.
Princeton's real reason In not stand
Ing by her natural prerogatlves 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 WI
say or We won play at all, and Wei
form a dual league with Harvard IN
football. az We have in rowing. ath,
letics and baseball, and you won't h,
In 1t with the College Athletic Aristoc,
racy."
That Princeton would be unlversally
supported in calling this bluff nobody