Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
Albert Edholm and DR.. Owens spent las,
Sunday at Onawa and returned with a nice
bag Of birds.
SOME MISCELLANEOUS SPORT
Cornell's Probable Demand On Yale
the Thing that Makes College
Men Hold Their Breath.

Where there is smoke there Is usually some
fire, and, therefore, there seems to be some
foundation to the reports that Cornell is in
tending to send an athletic ultimatum to
Yale, although the rumors are strenuously
denied at Ithaca. Annually Comedians are
becoming more sore over the refusal OF the
Yale athletic council to engage in foot ball,
base bail and track struggles with them, and
there Is now considerable talk Of sending
a plain statement to the Yale push that
Cornell will not give them an opportunity
to regain their lost rowing laurels unless
the bars are thrown down in other athletic
events. 1t was only by stress Of circum-
stances that Yale consented to row Cornell
at Poughkeepsie a couple Of years ago, and
because of the defeat sustained there by the
Blue last summers race at New London
was an absolute necessity. Cornell's victory
over Yale and Harvard on the Thames course
made the Ithacans recognized dictators in
the rowing world. and for that reason Cor
nell proposes to try to use this as an enter
ing wedge to force Yale to meet her in other
athletic ways. While Yale was practically
compelled to meet Cornell in a boat race all
efforts to arrange base ball, foot ball and
track games were promptly baked by the
Yale management, who claimed that the
scheme was not favorably regarded by the
undergraduates. Therefore Cornell Is telling
Yale that unless she admits the Ithacans to
other competitive sports Cornell will refuse
to meet her on the water. A well known
Cornell graduate talks as follows about the
situation: yale plays foot ball and base
ball with Harvard and Princeton, besides
Wesleyan, Brown, Amherst, Williams, Dart
mouth and the Indians. Why cannot Cornell
get a date each year, too? Is 1t because we
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and may some day defeat Yale? Possibly it
Is the same reason why Yale turned down
the University of Pennsylvania, with whom
We are not afraid to play an annual series
in all branches. Yale saw that the Quakers
were rapidly coming to the top Of the foot
ball heap and dropped them. Cornell has
taken such big strides in all departments in
the last five years that 1t Is our belief that
Yale does not care to take any more chances
than are absolutely necessary with U.s."
The eastern Intercollegiate rowing situa-
ton seems to be in a bit of a muddle and
| tangle in view OF the fact that Cornell and
Yale, with Harvard backing the latter, will
| find difficulty in making arrangements for
a race under any circumstances. In the
first place, II the three come together. the
| Blue and the Crimson will probably insist
that the race shall take place upon the
Thames course. The Cornell experts, even
though their crew won last year, declare
that this course is unfit, and probably will
not consent again to go there In order to
get a race. Secondly, Cornell will insist
that If the race takes place it shall be
rowed at least more than a weeks time
distant from her race with Pennsylvania
Since Cornell's defeat at the hands OF
Pennsy last season she can not break away
from the Quakers. Inasmuch as this de-
feat was ascribed to the strain of the race
rowed a week before with Yale and Harvard
the Cornell Athletic council has stated thai
Cornell will never again row in two races
within a week or so OF each other. Thus
Yale and Harvard would probably have tC
concede both date and place to the Cor
n~ellians to meet them. They could solve
the whole situation by rowing with Penn
s~ylvania and Cornell at the Poughkeepsi,
course, but they are hardly likely to con
sent to do anything OF the kind. Las
week Manager Preston Of the Yale crew
gave an inkling regarding this In the fol
lowing statement: yale will row but on,
race next spring. That race will be on tn,
Thames with Harvard. In all probabilit!
Cornell will be invited to enter and viii
be cordially welcomed. She will be per
mitted to have an equal voice in making
the arrangements, as she had last year
II Yale turns down Cornell's requests. al
seems to be intimated in this statement, l
seems likely that Yale and Harvard will b,
allowed to have 1t out by themselves, an(
the big race of the year will take plac,
between Cornell, Pennsylvania. Wisconsin
and Columbia.
Few persons realize the great strain tina
an athlete undergoes. A foot ball playei
will lose during a game from three to 81,
pounds; a wrestler has been known to los,
during a hard match twelve pounds. Al
exceptional case occurred when Yousout
wrestled Whitman of Cincinnati. The Turl
wrestled for three hours and lost twenty
pounds. Even in the lighter track event.
the loss Il considerable. The most expensiv,