The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-22
WHICH WILL IT Be /?
Intense Rivalry Among the
Colleges Regarding the
One Mile Relay Race.
NEW JERSEY DIVISION L. A. ". MEET
To Be Held at Trenton on Satur-
day, June Another Box
ing Tourney.

The bitter feeling etwee Harvard,
Yale and the University of Pennsylvania
will show itself on Decoration Day dur
ing. the New Jersey A. C. games, when
the starters line up for the mile relay
race. Yale has already counted Pennsyl-
vania practically out of it, and Harvard
will try to ignore the Pennsylvanians in
her efforts TO beat Yale and recover from
their defeat of Saturday. Pennsylvania,
of course objects to anything of the
character on the part of her two lead
ing athletic rivals, which has a tendency
to detract from her standing in the anna
teur sporting world. Why Princeton has
entered into the race is more or less of
a mystery. for early in the season she
expressed an unwillingness to ngage in
any competitions where Pennsylvania
w~1ld be a factor. Princeton's entry was
practically unsolicited. but it has been
made just the same; and it would hardly
lave been received a not the tigers be-
lieved they had a chance to win. Yale
has a very fast team. or at least n
which runs a relay race in fine style.
Harvard has a crop of quarter milers,
however, that with proper coaching,
should give the Blue a race such as has
never been run before. The strongest ele-
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ing of the Yale runners. Undoubtedly
the coaches manage to bring out the
best speed the men are capable of show
ing. In this respect Harvard is lacking.
and it remains to be seen whether the
same sort of enthusiasm is shown on
Decoration Day.
y At Cambridge on Saturday President
Sullivan, of the N. j. A. c., was promised
fba orraofpct raaa of the wear IT iS nm
derstood that Princeton would be highly
pleased to beat Pennsylvania, and just
Trainer Bryan is taking the best care of
his men. and says that the games Satur-
day OF h University of Pennsylvania
they will do on the 18th inst, and on
Decoration Day. In Philadelphia there
is some indignation over the disposition
but they expect to turn the tables on
their rivals the a of the race.
Travers Island yesterday saying that he
is carefully training for the mile open
challenge race. He say that he finds
as his iron constitution stands hin well
in hand. Early in the spring his health
was not particularly good, but it has
justified in starting in this race prepared
to run any man in the world at that
distance. Orion, for a long time, has
and will endeayor to pull off the race.
believing that the young 1rishman can
not get in as good condition as he was
last year. Orion Is reported to be in
fine shape. It will be remembered that
he went to pieces last year at a critical
time through entertaining, but this
year, Bryan, the Pennsylvania trainer,
expects that he will be in excellent trim
for the intercollegiate and the New
Jersey races.
The entries for the games closed on
May Is. The list is a remarkable one,
in fact it is the largest eve received by
he Bergen Point Organization. It in
cludes the names of all the leading col
1ege and athletic club athletes of this
section of the