The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-17
CURRENT SPORTING TALK.
H1RYARD AMI PRINCETON TO PLAH
FOOTBALL AGAIN.

Mako Ansur Supervisor OF unhpires-De
FITS nnd Corbott want 10 Fight Throwing.
Harvard's failure to play football with Prince
ton this year caused universal regret among
college men. But thoy will undoubtedly rejoice
10 learn that u game will probably be played
next fall, and also the year after that. Harvard
mon woro forced to give UT the cordial relations
with tho Tigers because OF two pressing on
fragments with Yale and Pennsylvania, which
yero fulfilled this fall within the space OF one
week. As these two games woro particu-
larly trying. and as tho schedule provided
several other difficult contests before that
time, Princeton had to DO overlooked.
Word now comes from n
source that Harvard will meet Yale. Princeton,
and Pennsylvania, but tho games will DO so ar
ranged that there will be plenty of rest between
them. It is the plan of several prominent Har-
ward graduates TO arrange the game with Penn
pylvania TO DO played about tho third week in
October. Thcy believe that this scheme will
make 1t easier to play Princeton during tho first
week In November, and two weeks later to play
tho annual game with Yale. Correspondence
between these Harvard men and several lead
inp Princeton graduates has boon going on for
nome time, although no official move has been
made yet. Harv ards attitude toward Pennsyl-
vania 10 not so friendly as formerly, although
there Ia no desire on the part of the Crimson 10
reyer tho present relations with the Quakers.
At Cambridge the undergraduates are anxious
to resume football games with Princeton, and
believe that in order to bring this about the
Pennsylvania game should DO played earlier
than usual or not at all. Behind this move 1t il
suspected that Yale has been working the wires.
YaIe's determination to have nothing further to
do with Pennsylvania, and her mistaken friend
ship for Princeton, are two reasons why the
Blue Is Attempting to induce Harvard to meet
the Tigers again. Princeton. with no particu-
larly hard game before the contest with Yale. is
naturally anxious to meet Harvard, and has
probably induced Yale to act for Nassau in ne
gotiations. Harvard became necessarily tangled
up with Cornell and Pennsylvania when her
dual contests with Yale were suddenly blotted
out in 1894, SO that with Yale again q rival,
the Crimson is perhaps q bit annoyed over
the necessity of meeting both Cornell and
Pennsylvania and not Princeton on the grid
iron. Princeton is determined to play two big
games next year. One. of course. will DO with
Yale, and the other will, as stated above, be
with Harvard unless all signs fail. But in case
the Crimson men should finally change their
minds, Prince on might consent to take on
Pennsylvania. 1t is an undeniable fact that
Harvard has been trying to force Prince
ton to play tho Quskers for two years
back. This was because Pennsylvania
pulled the strings with the Cambridge
men while the latter were at odds with Yale.
Harvard's renewal of peace with the Blue made
possible a scheme. that had been talked OF at
: Cambridge for u long time. It was that the
Crimson and tho Blue should meet. and that
Princeton should play Pennsylvania on the same
q week or ten days later. Harvard inability to
play Princeton. 1t was thought, would resulting
&ter the Crimson tried to have Yale influence
Princeton to play the Philadelphians. Yale: how
Pennsylvania. and as Old Nassau has willingly
obeycd the Blue instructions, the situation. has
s so0 snd 10 MAINE De Z Hsf the o eon nesta With iPPs snnsy iTinSs.
Agamc OF really minor Importance because of
Its early date. Harvard seems willing to be
Sase Of a turn in the condition Of things tho
Tigers may take up with Pennsylvania after
aia's prospects are BY no means blight.
Tho publication of the football receipts and
ayers has caused considerable comment among
men identified with other colleges, It Is claimed
ment about q sport that is supposed to be played
i Sy o stsist to ama %sRe 81! i 900 $50 in shows " ,, 1Sfs
season prices for tickets rtto all games must
1ss al az 1Se biz BE- e 6iEa; w Tsis h bsSt e ap}D!;sSi
with the " Big. -Four" believe that there should
argue that it is unjust TO compel students to pay
90 for a ticket to the more, important, games.
g Sp' e shss the H The plea pr'i sh should the be n SssassS 10
large expenses force the prices up is not
existing expense accounts are entirely too high.
The fact that 50 much money is to be made by
belief t6at t5tsoe Cubic IsS may "a soon gain EaI the i Inn.
preston that the sport is not free from profess
s 1pons inpr Mssg t Rs1s09 aso e Carlisle Hedf fndis shs
divided up the profits Of the past season,
whereas = The he IN money was placed in the
current expenses in other branches Of sport. 1t
IS quite probable. therefore. that in future there
and thereby make the game less of q money
coming scheme.
There. will be tho usual meeting of the Foot
ball Rules Committees; consisting of Dashiel of
Bell Of Pennsylvania. Mofratt Of Princeton, and
Dennis OF Cornell, in the near future. The gall
yerslty Athletic Club. as has been the custom
for the past three years. The club has received
4. number .nIs us e in tog r requests to cali
tion has heen received from one OF the big col
hands Of the clubs Athletic Committee in a
meeting, in this city, but 1t is not expected that
they will make many radical changes. The rule
ton. possibly to eliminate the noted guards
bach. play, but what other amendments there
play in vogue during the season Just ended.
Tho fact that all OF the big games were remark
ABLY Tree from rOugnne5S ana alleged brutality
proved that the rules came pretty near filing
tho requirements.
The talk of making another match between
Corbett, and Fitzsimmons, which has been re-
Vtved by Dan stuart and other interested
parties. becomes rather monotonous in the face
Of positive statements from the two pugilists.
Fitz reiterates the words uttered at the ring.
eide in Carson City, after, he had dropped Cor;
will never fight again. I've retired from
the prize ring r. Pompadour jim. too. is de.
cidedly peaceful when he declares, eff can't
fight Fitzsimmons. 1 won't fight anybody. /
will retire before l viii consent to meet such
men AS Maher. Goddard, Sharkey, and others
who are CHALLENGING me-" ~Fitzsimm9ns, has
Before be could get a match with Ccrbett he
was ordered to go light" such ~pugilists
whom he proved to be inferior to him.
Then, after the hardest kind of pugilistiC
politics at long range, Fitz succeeded In making
. match with Cor6ett, for which Lanky Bob
vas rounily abused and was subjected to mum
berless insults up to tho very day of the fight
Then Cor Cor6 Sdtio was inglorionsly defeated Spd
lures of the FIGHT Were producedl ater. CorheII