New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-22
CHANCE FOR NEW LAURELS.
THE PILGRIMAGE TO ENGLAND OF THE
YALE AND HARVARD ATHLETES
SATURDAYS CONTESTS.


| SATURDAYS CONTESTS
By far the most important development Of the last
week. so far as college sports are concerned. has
been the announcement that the athletes OF Oxford
and Cambridge universities would challenge their Kin
across the sea- and that the best record men OF Har-
ward and Yale would probably Journey TO England
early next July to take up the gauntlet. 1t so hap
| pens that whenever the representatives OF America
and of England together for contest In
| athletic skill the matter at once assumes almost
international importance Dinners are given. toasts
| are drunk without end. and American and English
| Ambassadors make felicitous speeches about the
pluck of Anglo-saxon youths on both sides Of the
ocean. 1t is, in fact a great experience for the
young who go to seek laurels across the
| water. and It is not surprising that from both
| New Haven and Cambridge comes the prompt re-
| port that the challenge will be welcomed and ac-
ceped The athletes Of Harvard and OF Yale Will no
doubt feel considerable responsibility resting upon
| them. but az the same time. whether they win or
lose. they cannot help being made much Of and
| having a glorious holiday.
Yale 1t will be remembered went to England and
competed against oxford in track and field athletics
| In 1894. oxford won. he Yale men, upon arrival
| In England. to oxford to train. while the
oxford team betook itself Brighton. The weather
at oxford is very soft" In fact. the seat OF the
most ancient university IN England Is in the midst
| of a network o. little rivers, and the climate is
moist and rather enervatng. AL the games, accord
ngly, the Yale men appeared somewhat out OF con-
dton. and some people were unkind enough to de-
clare that the oxford men had purposely arranged
| TO have the visitors stay at oxford 10 lose
| their edge" while the Oxonians betook themselves
| TO the bracing air OF Brighton. That suspicion,
however. wholly unwarranted for 4; is de-
| clared that the oxford men explained fully about
| the china tic conditions at oxford town. There
seems to be question this. for English uni
| versity men are thoroughgoing sportsmen and
! would never dream OF such trick that which
| suggested
/ There Is. however, very plain warning to the
American athletes TO take measures TO prevent los
| ing their snap. Every one remembers that when
the Cornell at Henley. and also in 1896
| when the Yale eight defeated the Thames,
I neither Of the American crews in prime
dtlon. 1t is a well-esablished fact that the climate
OF England is exceedingly trying for American a;h-
| letes under the favorable conditions, and the
first point for the Yale and Harvard team cap
tains TO look out for is to training place
| where their men can be kept in condition.
| There IS likely to be some little criticism OF the
statements attributed to one of the leading repre-
sentatives OF oxford and Cambridge who is re-
ported to have said on Saturday that the two Eng
| lish universities had declined to accept many chal-
lenges from America. being fearful that the Amer
lean colleges would bring a lot OF semi-pro-
fessionals. AS matter Of fact. however although
this "holierthsn-thou" expression sounds a little
ungracious. every one knows that within the last
stances OF professionalism at American colleges
II is equally well known that these have been al
at Yale and Harvard completely So strcter and and
stricter regulations as TO the definition OF anna
teur have been ests blished each year at NewHaven
| and Cambridge.
The intercollegiate Championships at Manhattan
! British challenge, acquire even more than ordinary
Interest Cor while the challenge includes only Yale
est interest 10 watch the top performances Of those
men And Is Only natural that the men from
should put forth rsdoubled efforts to win from
Notorious across the water greater credit would
| Iedound to the home yictors Of Harvard and Yale
performances. the Tigers winning by a margin Of
bune JARVIS Of Princeton proved Himself
consistent PEI former in the -hundred-yard dash
| and Long. Of Columbia, did good work in both the
other fiat races Carroll broke the Princeton record
for the running high jump and he will be heard
The annual games Of the Ns.w-England lnterco.
day failed TO Sring out any records sufficiently good
| to have any bearing on the coming games. though
will be in the struggles on Manhattan Field. The
meet on SATURDAY was as chiefly noteworthy for the
don was at the top, with % points. Williams had
e. Amherst was only three behind that. and Brown
failed to tie Amherst by only two-thrds Of point,
Cornell Is happy over her victory in baseball won
he s rgeri al srS
victory al Princeton and turned the tables IN the
and received superb support In the field Princeton
men Wholly failed to fathom the Wlles Of Piteher
Young AS the contests now. stand all. third
! ranged. though there has been no provision made
for II on the schedules as yet Both Princeton and
Harvard have been apparently going down hlll
together since their game on May 13. but Harvards
Tufts was followed on Saturday by whewash
the rhs ala sce she Wo nd
safe hits were few and far between: But Harvard
these gave pennsylvania her three runs. The sec
ond game will be played at Cambridge June TO-
the Orange Athletic Club, while the Harvard fresh
men quite covered themselves with glory by win
beer. ANTICIPATED, had little difficulty in overcom-
afternoon In fact. il the distance by =" which the
show that the
men this year are superior to the Columbia who
crew have been wisely exemplary in their con-
the faculty are to be- sS%ed so 10 Mems
London almost week earlier than usual. June .
Of the Thames. and this viii give the Eli oarsmen
% e OF Ys sie crew IS at n
stage. while Harvard is still shifting about with a
spin News Of shaReups has come Oa a
ing down from Cambridge in the last fortnight to
E e The ses e. whS hG
sssdv . wesns r hard sGT rm catch
eight IS seem to GRASP his IDEAS. but i Is dcut
q crew form ii win Be aSso"tey ,m nnSM sRs
for the nnal makeup OF the crew to be settled
The Cornell varsity has been picked out and will
No s, BesrSslse; No s. Perkins; No J. King S'1 10
9 sweetland; No. 2 Holloway. and bow, Fay The
not 80 many civil things said about their form tbit
year as last season at this III i%s The SECOND Cor
crew on Memorial Day