The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-10
UNIVERSITY HAPPENINGS
COMING INTERCOLLEGI4TE CHESS
TOURNAMENT.


Camp Selects the All-American Team
for This Standardization Humorists'
Club Bnuquet-News Notes.
The coming chess tournament be-
tween Yale, Harvard, Columbia and
Princeton is at present engaging the
attention of all chess devotees of the
university. In this weeks issue of the
Alumni Weekly is the following article
comparing the chances of victory:
YALE'S CHESS PLAYERS.
Yales chances for winning the inter-
collegiate chess championship this year
are better than ever before. Both the
increased interest taken and the fact
that the members of the team of last
year, including substitutes, have re-
turned to college, will help to insure
success Then, too, there has been
much Improvement in the average play,
and the university tournment last Tues
day has been more closely contested
this year than ever before.
W. M. Murdoch, who has represented
Yale for two years and who finished
first in the university tournament this
AeVtA, w Ia pay ILLS J cetl. H. "a
Cook, Yale's other representative, was
first substitute last year and has been
playing very strong game this fall.
The increased interest in the game
has not only resulted in better play all
around, and hence better practice for
the best players, but it has encouraged
the members of the Chess club to en-
gage the services of a good coach, M
j. W. Showalter, who holds the title
Of chess champion of America A great
deal of praise Is due Mr.. e. A. CasweIl
Sc, who has been the chief graduate
supporter Of the game at Yale ever
since the beginning Of the intercolegi-
ate tournaments, of which he was the
originator. He has helped the Chess
club financially, and in choosing the
coaches.
Although Harvard has lost Ryder she
will undoubtedly make a good showing,
Southland, who won every game last
year, will play. Hewins, who was on
the team three years ago. will play
again this year; so with Hewins and
Southland, Harvard will have very
strong team.
COlumbia's game last year was not as
good as in the previous tournaments,
but the advantage Of playing with an
outside club, which she has in New
York, makes a great difference in the
| developing of her representatives.
| The Princeton team has lost Seymour,
but much fine material is being trained.
| The makeup Of the Columbia and
| Princeton chess teams has not as yet
| been decided
The tournament will be held in New
York, at the Columbia Grammar school,
| from December OF to January a. Yale's
representatives will be w NJ Murdoch
SO S., and l. A. Cook 1900, with J. c.
| Pickett 1900 and H. Logan 1900 as sub
stitutes.
| ALL AMERICAN TEAM.
! In the current number of Harpers
| Weekly, Mr.. Walter Camp 80, after
review Of the football season chooses
the All American team as follows:
| Cochran, Princeton: Chamberlin
Yale; Hare, Pennsylvania; Doucette,
Harvard; Brown, Yale; Outland, Penn
| sylvana; Hail. Yale; deSaules, Yale;
Dibblee, Harvard; Kelley, Princeton;
Minds, Pennsylvania
The positions begin with left end and
run through the line in their regular
order
| AMERICAN HUMORISTS' CLUB.
The American Humorists' club held a
banquet last night night at the Tontine
hotel. c. f. Hay 80 acted as toastmas-
ter and the following toasts were re-
sponded to-
l. Our President. ............T. W. Farnam
LET none presume to wear an undcscrvcd
dignity" Merchant of Venice
9 The Occasion. ...........,O Preston
hn,, Of oil =
upon earth. Blessed hour of our dinners -
Owen Meredith.
3. Our Authors. ................B r. Moore
Let your literary compositions be Kept
from the public eye for nine years ut
least. Horace
"A face that cannot smile is never good'-
Martial.
5. Humor in College Publications. 49,.
II wouldt.@earnestly advise Them f9't for
their good to order this paper to be pune
tually served up.'-Spectator.
g. The Poe Club Northumberland NJ Fair
What can atone? OH ever-njured shade,
Thy fate unpitied and thy rites unpaid.
NOTES.
The smoker of the Brooklyn club an
nounced to take place tonight, has been
indefinitely postponed,
Mr.. J. w. Showalter gave another ex-
hibition of simultaneous chess last eve
ming in Calliope hall.
The banquet OF the Edgar Allen Poe
club, arranged to be held Saturday eve
ming, has been postponed until next
| term.
The Carlisle football team cleared ST.
900 in the series of games played dur
ing the season. The money will be
used for the purchase of football field
and other athletic interests.
Chauncey M. Depew SO has consented
to deliver an address sometime during
the academic year before Harvard uni
versity, under the auspices of the Har-
ward union
The university catalogue which will
soon appear shows that forty-three new
courses have been offered in the AGA
demic department this year.
The university football team and
twenty-one substitutes were photo
graphed yesterday afternoon.
MORE COMPLETE RECOGNITION
OF DEBATING AT YALE URGED
BY PROFESSOR HADLEY.
Professor A. T. Hadley, who has
taken part for several years in training
Yale debaters for intercollegiate con-
tests, has written an article appearing
as letter in the Yale Alumni Weekly