The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-11
HARD AT WORK
SYSTEMATIo TRAINING IN PREPA
RATION FOR SPRING GAMES.


University Basket Ball Team Played the
Knickerbocker Athletic Club Team Last
Nlght-Actiono of Senior Glass Upon Death
ofEarnest walker-Ely and Noyes Won
the Handball Tournament.
All the candidates for the several po-
sitions on the track team and the crews
are hard at work. Every afternoon the
gymnasium presents a lively scene with
about two hundred young athletes TAX
ing systematic training. The men are
divided into several squads. After
brisk outdoor run Of couple of miles
the men are sent through a series of
calisthenics designed to best equip
them for participation in the coming
games.
The freshman crew has been reduced
to about forty men. There are about
twenty men in the bicycle squad. The
men will begin riding as soon as the
weather permits
WILL WEAR MOURNING.
At a meeting of the senior class held
yesterday morning to take action upon
the death Of Ernest Walker it was de-
cided to send letter of sympathy to
his family and to wear mourning for
thirty days. The body of the deceased
was shipped to his home in New York
city yesterday afternoon.
GIFT TO THE LIBRARY.
Robert C. Winthrop, jr., who present
ed to the Yale library last April val
liable collection of manuscripts relat-
ing to early Connecticut history, has
recently given few others of special
value and rarity. These include two
private letters of Abraham Pierson,
the first rector of Yale college, dated
1898 and 1903; a diary by Governor Win
throp of Connecticut on his journey
from Boston to Saybrook in 1645, and
memorandum by Governor Winthrop
of Massachusetts respecting the sup
plies furnished to the settlement in
Saybrook in 1885.
THE YALE DEBATERS.
In this weeks issue of the Yale Alum
i nj Weekly is a letter from Thomas
Thatcher, Yale II, of New York city,
in which he suggests for the freshman
class at Yale an organization similar
to the sophomore "Wigwam." Mr..
Thatcher urges that such an organiza-
ton might abate the existing evils of
the sophomore secret societies, and
give freshmen fairer opportunity to
compete for their honor than now ex-
list, but which We're once supplied by
the old freshman secret societies. The
1..s.- r. -.~ ~
be members of the Yale team in the
debate against Princeton will take
place next Friday. Each candidate
will be allowed five minutes for debate.
In the final trials, which will take place
! Saturday, February rs, each man will
be allowed to speak ten minutes.
BASEBALL MANAGER.
Francis F.. Coffin of South Orange, n
III, was yesterday appointed manager
Of the Princeton freshman baseball
team. This appointment is conferred
by the university athletic executive
committee, it being customary to name
Junior for the position. Games will
be arranged with the freshman mines
Of Yale, Harvard and Brown.
YALE LOG.
The final rounds of the handball
tournament were played yesterday af-
ternoon, and Ely and Noyes defeated
Champion and Allen for the champion
ship. The scores were 21-9, 20-21, 1921,
21-19 and 21-17.
The first of series of interclass polo
games was played yesterday afternoon
In Bowling hall by teams from '9S and
'99. The latter team won by the score
of to 1.
The university crew rowed in the
following order yesterday: Bow, Whit
ney; No. 2, Greenway; No. 8, Brock;
No. 4, Niedecken; No. 5, McGee; No. 6,
ALLEN; No Z, Griswold; stroke, Flint.
The first freshman crew rowed yes
terday as follows: Bow, Keppelman;
No. 2, Hale; No. 8, Gillett; No 4, Still
man; No. 5, Dowd: No. 6, Brown; No.
Z, Kelly; stroke, Cameron.