New-York tribune., 1898-12-11
HAPT4RD LOOKS FOR VICTORIES.
HER ATHLETES ARE GETTING INTO SHAPE
FOR SPRING GAMES-TRACK
TEAM WORK.


Everything points TO spring victories for
the Harvard athletes That football Will have It's
effect the Harvard men feel certain. and they
keep repeating II over and again as II Il were
the prime requisite for victory The track team Is
the department that has the rosest prospect, and
this year the all-important one. The dual games
with Yale this year are deciding set so far as
Harvard Is concerned for II the Crimson wins
the cup the two are contesting for will belong
to Harvard for good and all II Yale wins the
the games will be q tie. and another year VIII
decide the championship. But the track team
which Harvard had last year Is bnck almost TO n
man. and there additions that promise
well for tire Crimson.
In matters Of track tho Harvard men who are
Interested talk little of the Mott Haven. Tor they
have given Up that rs a bad iob. Last year It was
announced that the Crimson would not enter a
team in 90 but the Athletic Committee has not
ratified that yet. and 1t seems that Harvard
probably Will start some there. but with no
real interest IN the place Perns team Is won
derfu aggregation o. athletes and Harvard men
feel that 1t IS TOO much Of team for the Crimson
TO cope with.
More than that Harvard feels that the Mott
Haven is no; what Il used TO be Tor the people
do not take any interest In II. and the colleges
are only fghting for second place. which never
makes much OF stir IN pubic.
So what Harvard men have been doing and will
n
in shape 10 fight the Blue al lines. Last year
Harvard won at Cambridge by narrow margin IN
the last contest. and II Waller. the Yale high
jumper. had not enlisted. the tide OF victory might
have turned the other way II Is by no means
certain that Waller could have the high jump.
but he would have got a few points somewhere
This year Harvard has not only OF the
that did the trick Yale. but II has
who may be counted on TO score hrsts at
New-Haven In the dual games and at Mott Haven
II they there The first and best-knOwn Of
these Is Tom Burke the worlds champion guar
ter mile runner. who is in hts second year at
Harvard. and eligible to for the Crimson.
That means in the dual games first in the quar-
ter and a similar place at Mott Haven. In the
dual games also Burke who is n the hall;
may be counted for another first there. for
in these games the contests not run in heats
But at Mott Haven he cannot DO much more than
the heats in the quarter
The second OF these men is Quinlan. the old
Boston College sprinter. who is also in TIE second
year OF his Harvard work. fTe Il a man hat time
and again has second TO Wefers. and IL good
for fat in the hundred. and perhaps some
thing better with careful training. And he g said
10 be proportionatel, faster i'm the opn Harvard
had good hundred man IN \. ". Robinson. ~.
the ex-interscholastic champion. bui that man.
after running first In the dual games for the Grim
son and second at New-YOrk left Harvard to 20
into business. and that was the end OF his career
on the Harvard path. In the same way his brother
nlling the place Ike veteran for 4 year.
These men will MI up big gap in the Harvard
games The team suffers Il loss in ex-Captain
Bremer. who, W to the time that he raced with
kranzein last spring the champion low
hurdler. But Harvard has plenty Of good hurdlers
Fox can take the high hurdles IN the dual games
II he gets his ~ form back again. and Iiaowcll.
the football end old star In school games can
do well for the second place. Hallowell 10 also a
good man In the low hurdles. beating out Perkins
last spring for third place. Harvard thereby got
a scoop In the low hurdles and the who took
the second place. and who is also a high jumper
with a record is w. c. Morse. 90. who Is ack
and in great fOim for the winter work indoors
In the weight contests Harvard has a rev man
Brown. who comes from ST Paurs school lie
won The shot and held the record IN the inter
scholastic and last fall won the hammer throw in
the Harvard fall games. He has the build md the
knack for a great weight man.
me freshman class Of last year had some grea,
athletes. and they ought 10 turn out winners
They won the broad Jump. and they took all sorts
OF places IN tho other contests. LathroD the
trainer, Will have charge Of the men as usual al
though there viii probably be specials IN charge
OF som" contests. so that fahrop can conrno him
self to the track contests
The thing he wants to get is a good tea n, of nrz,
men ana then a well-rounded lot OF men to take
care OF the third places. which IN his mind is the
way 10 win closely contested match