The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

This it is thought will make "a very
strong crew and Of course a number of
substitutes will have to be taken along
OF course the crew that finally gets
into the boat in England MAY be quite
different from this. The Cook stroke,
/ 1t has been suggested by some, may
not prove as fine over the shorter Hen
/ ley course-one mile five hundred and
! fifty yards-but the Yale men are not
in the least doubtful They will have
two courses of this length-one on Lake
! Whitney and one on Lake Saltonstall
and over these they viii do their
trials.
THE BIG UNIVERSITY RACE.
The great college boating event in
June on this side, will be the University
race between Harvard Cornell, Column
bia and Pennsylvania. It has not been
decided yet where this will be, but the
place to select from are reduced to two
the lake at Saratoga and the Hudson
river at Poughkeepsie. It is quite like
ly that Saratoga will be selected as here
there would be a chance of an uninter-
rupted course, something impossible
on the Hudson on account of the hun
dredS Of excursion boats which would
go up the river from New York. On
the same day and preceding the uni
Versity race there will be a four cor
nered contest between the freshmen of
the colleges mentioned Mr.. George L.
Rives has consented to be the referee of
these races.
At Cornell, Courtney, the coach, has
twenty-siX candidates at work, all of
them ambitious to have a place in the
boat. Hitherto Courtney has been a
dictator at Cornell in all boating mat
tiers and has done quite as he chose.
New rules have been laid down by the
council of the athletic club, and &C
cording to these, Courtney's decisions
may be overruled at any time. It
would seem that this was a wise and
Judicious reservation, for Mr.. Courtney
never achieved much distinction as a
prudent man either in his professional
career as an oarsman or since he took
TO coaching for a living. The Columbia
candidates are hard at work and are
enjoying at present the hospitality of
the gymnasium Of the new Manhattan
Athletic club.
COLLEGE BASEBALL.
The baseball clubs are arranging
their schedules and the first game an
nounced is March IS, between Prince
ton and Rutgers. Last year Princeton
was thought to have the strongest nine
in the field, but by bad luck she lost to
Yale which also beat Harvard. Yale
therefore carried Off the hOnOrS of
games won. This year Princeton will
have the same pitchers as last year
Altman, Wilson and Easton This will
be great advantage and as the sup
port is quite strong the New Jersey IT,
gers may be classed at this date as
prospectively very formidable. In the
ale nine the famous Carter, no longer
an undergraduate, will be replaced by
Ifudeau and Greenway, the latter a
brother Of the Greenway who caught
last year At Harvard the prospects are
THAT Highlands of last year will con-
tinue in the box and that he will be as
sisted by CoZZens and Paine. If the
Harvard field is strong these pitchers
will make the games very lively for the
other colleges. Lewis will be the chief
pltcher at Williams. OF Pennsylvania
l can make no announcement as the
faculty has taken hand in athletic
affairs and has declared that none save
bona t1de students shall belong to nine
crew, or team that represents Penn |
sylvania- This is admirable and will
be heard Of with pleasure by all who |
take real interest in the athletic |
contests between colleges.
1t IS too early to speak of track ath |
fetlcs but the young men are busy a /
all the colleges preparing for the games |
which VIII come off about commence |
ment time. And it ie gratifying to be /
able TO say that the prospects are quite /
good that college sports this year will |
De cleaner than for ten years and more
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