The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-26
NOTES OF YALE DOINGS
BICYCLE SQUAD BEGIN ROAD
 TRAINING NEXT MONDAY.

Winter Meet of Y. A. A. to be Held in the Armory March 1s-Events to be Con- Lecture by M. Rene Doumic.
 At noon to-day the Yale university basketball team will leave for Brattle- boro, Vt, where tonight they will play a team from the Y. M. c. A. of that city. These teams played one game last season and Yale was victorious. Every effort will be made to keep up the good work which they began by defeating New Britain on Wednesday night.
 A training table for candidates for the basketball team has been started at Warner hall. Thus far eight men have been taken. They are Peck, Gil- lespie. Beard, Clark Lockwood, Merri- am, Lewis and Rockwell. A change has been made in the management of the team. J. K. Clark 9s was elected manager and S. P. Marshell secretary and treasurer. The present season will close on March 12, but several import- ant games are to be played before that time.
 THE BICYCLE SQUAD. Next Monday the bicycle squad will in all probability begin work on the road. They have ceased outdoor run ming and are skipping the rope instead The crew candidates are still working on the harbor and will continue as long as the weather permits.
 WINTER MEET. The annual winter meeting of the Yale Athletic association, in conjunc- tion with the Connecticut NationaI Guard, will be held at the Second regi- ment armory this city, on Saturday evening, March 12. The following events will be open to the National Guard only: 50-yard dash. handicap; one mile relay, and heavy, middle and lightweight boxing. The other events will be open to all amateurs and include the following handicap events: 50-yar5 dash, 50-yard hurdle, 880-yard run, one- mile run, putting 16-pound shot, pole vault, running high jump and one mile walk. The handicapping will be done by an official handicapper.
 There will be several relay races, one between Yale and Harvard and one be- tween Hartford high school and IIill- house high school for the state inter- scholastic championship.
 Entries have been received from. Harvard, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and some smaller colleges.
 Handsome silver cups will be given to the winners of first and second places in each event. The admission to| the armory will be fifty cents, and re- served seats may be obtained for twe1f-y ty-five cents extra.
 LAW SCHOOL BASEBALL.
 The law schol baseball team is being coached daily in the cage by Mr. Far nam, and the result is shown by the improved work of the candidates. At the last mass meeting it was decided definitely to take the southern trip. The candidates at present are: Catch- CTS, w. c. Shattuck, M. J. Flannagan, G. S. McLaren, D. V. McNamee, J. B. Sheall; pitchers, w. J. McConnell N. T. Gorham, R. F. Hill and c. c. Spreyer; first base, F. L. vandeveer,w J. Malone, J. w. Edgerton; second base, w. B. Lane, A. L. Corbin, R. J. Woodruff c. 0. Spreyer; short stop, A. H. Segelbaum; third base, D. c. Simp- son, G. J. Finnigan and C. c. Mix: fielders, A. L. Corbin, H. s. DeNeefe and J. K. Blake.
 M. RENE DOUMIC TO LECTURE.
 M. Rene Doumic, the noted French criti cand literateur, will lecture in New Haven under the auspices of the French department on Monday. March z, unless something unavoidable arises which would cause the lecture to be postponed. The lecture will be on All phonse Daudet,' and will probably be delivered in Al Osborn hall.
 M. Doumic was invited through M. Luuuiens by students in the academic French department, who have raised the funds necessary for the lecture.
 The freshmen crew rowed as follows Thursday: Keppelman, stroke; Kelley, z; Wheeler, 6; Montague, 5; Stillman, 1: Gillette, 3; Auchincloss, 2; Waterman, bow.
 A quartet composed of F. w. Sheehan '9S, J. c. MoLauchlan '9S, c. H. Burtis '99 and G. G. schreiber 'ss sang at the Essex county county alumni dinner last evening.
 Harvard, Columbia, Annapolis and Cornell, who compose the Intercolle- giate Fencing association, will hold their fifth annual tournament some time in March at the New York Racquet and Tennis club.
 Harvard will be represented by the following men in the freshman relay race with Yale at the Boston college games: P. L. Fish, captain; s. H. Bush, W. G. Clark, M. L. Bernstein and J. Miller, substitute.
 The editors of '99 Lit. board met l, Thursday and elected Hugh Andrew Callahan of Chicago, H., chairman, and Richard Hooker of New Haven, Conn.,, business manager. The depart ments of the Lit. were then assigned as l follows: "Notabilia," to H. A. Calla- han; Editors Table," to I. Hender- son; Book Reviews to B. B. Moore; Memorabilia" to H. Mason, and | "Portfolios' to R. Hooker. CONDITION OF THE TREASURY. , Washington, Feb. 25.-To-day's state ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $225.- 461, ,sSs; gold reserve, s167, 800, ITO; net sil-