The sun., 1896-12-15
RECONCILIATION DELLFED.
a Hitch netwsen Harvard and Yale Or the
Hoat Race.


Boat Race.
CAMBRIDoE. Dec. l4.-The apparent dead
lock between the athletic authorities OF Har-
ward and Yale in their endeavors to effect
complete athletic reconciliation has given color
TO the stories that their present relations are
seriously Involved. Everything would DO
quickly and amcAbly settled II II were not for
slight hitch over the boat race. Yale being un-
decided in regard to the matter. In all the
other branches OF sport tho universities appear
to be Of one mind. That any serious difficulty
now exists ms to a complete settlement may DO
emphatically denied.
Tho members of the Harvard Athletic Com
mittee will not make any official statement
during the continued illness Of their Chairman
Prof. J. Ii. Beale. One of the faculty mcmSers
OF the committee, however, made statement
OF affairs rs they now stand to THE sun re-
porter this evening. 1t Is in substance as fol-
lows:
There Is really no obstacle TO complete
reconciliation with Yale. The hitch which is
causing the present delay In final agreement
10 entirely on the boat race, and this is how
Harvard stands on the matter. We must and
shall row with Cornell ut Poughkecpsie next
Juno, though we shall not row in the quad
rangular race unless Cornell really desires 1t.
We will row Yale at the same time we row
Cornell unless the latter objects. thus making q
triangular race. Yale has neither refused nor
accepted this proposition Another arrange
ment which Harvard might very likely accede
to IL to have two races on the Hudson. Two
four-mile races in the same month are pretty
severe strain on crew. but, win TWO weeks
intervening. Harvard would be likely TO consent.
What Harvard il not likely to DO ana what
seems to her to be a manifestly unfair demand,
is to row with Yale on tho Thames. making IT
necessary to transfer her training quarters and
shells from Poughkerpsie. where she will
Cornell, to New London. Harvard Is not IN any
In. Cornell race. ~ As soon as the rowing aaes
tion Is settled there will be no trouble about the
other sports hshond it be impossible TO o arraEge
ward will meet Yale in any sport next spring
In case of a football game in the fail 1t will DO
played on nome grounds aeG9,a'hH 10 the eS-
The Harvard Athletic Committee feels that
II has laid open every. reasonable opportunity
for Yale to renew athletic relations. Harvard
is not ready to make any sacrifices which VIII
leRes simply Tor the sake of playing Yale again.
but she will meet Yale in an entirely friendly
NEW HAVEN. Dec. 14.-So far as Yale is CON
cerned. there does not seem to be any thing in
the way Of reconciliation alton % Titn aarvara lar nl
Brooks of Harvard will have conference at
New York to talk over an athletic arrangement
There Is " good deal OF talk about the Har-
ward Cornell rowing agreement interfering with
letes interviewed to- night did not express much
fear OF such result, IL Is not expected here
that Harvard Will interphe any conditions
which will threaten to prevent an agreement
with Yale on any Of the athletic contests.
II there is any obstacle It will bo on
boat rowing. and over tho Cornell mat
ter, too. Harvard may want Yale to row
triangular race, with Cornell as a competitor.
1t is probable that Yale will not row against
Cornell. and in this event Harvard will have to
submit to two races. From what can be learned
Yale does not look for Harvard TO be opposed to
two races, and on this account q boat race be-
tween the two is regarded as likely. As for
track athletics. baseball and football. 1t Is rs
good az settled that in these sports the UNIVERSE
ties will agree to compete.