New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-04
COLLEGE ATHLETES AFIELD.
ACTIVITY IN ALL THE SPRING SPORTS
COMING TRACK GAMES OF THE
LEADING UNIVERSITIES

Now that genial spring weather has at last ar
rived every college campus is resounding with
shouts of young athletes. The green diamonds are
crowded with the baseball aspirants and the sound
of the oarsmen echoes and re-echoes across the
water Springtime is the heyday Of college sports
Autumn has its athletic contests, but they are
mostly confined. as BELTS the fall of the year, to
the grim warfare OF football. Springtime, however.
brings forth a crowd OF eager workers In baseball.
track athletics, rowing and cricket, without men
ton Of those other sports where individual rather
than team work is the important factor Track attn
letcs are the first TO come TO focus In the spring
the college contests gradually narrowing down to
the intercollegiate sports, known Of old as the
North Haven games and held this year on May
o. Baseball is strung out longer period and
the majority of the match games are not played
until June Then the interest converges on the
class day and commencement series. late In June,
when the winners Of first place finally gain their
laurels The big crew races, which mean months
of preparation and the hardest sort Of hard work
are all decided in q brief space of twenty min
utes during which the rival crews are racing down
the four-mile course at New-London or Pough-
keepsie.
In track athletics this year. which Is the only
sport in which all the leading colleges come to-
gether and contest at the same time. Pennsylvania
expects to win the championship again. But Har-
ward Is declared to have some wonderful material.
and the Crimson will make a desperate effort to
regain the place that she won in succession for
many years. 1t stin looks though the Quakers
could win out, though it may be possible to get
closer line the probable outcome after the Har-
vsrd-Ysle dual track athletic games at NewHaven
on May ID.
AT the sports held at Cambridge recently one of
Harvard's young hurders broke the hgh-hurdle
intercollegiate record and there were three men
who ran the 1o0yard dash in even time. but Yale
has some sprinters as we'll and her men showed
Gin he
Law meet last Saturday. The Yale News" in a
review printed few days ago says that 1t looks
as II the advantage at the dual games would De
slightly in favor of Harvard, but in any event the
contest will be closely fought. and the Quakers
will be vastly interested, for results at New
Haven will have so clear bearing on the larger
results two weeks later in New YORK In TINS con
nection il may be worth while. In view OF the
charges of professionalism as TO sprnters and
other athletics that have been made frequently,
to note that what is known Faculty Commit
tee TO act as a final court Of appeal on athletics,
has been established by the leading colleges. This
Der each from the Yale Harvard Princeton. Penn
sylvania and Cornell faculties: will hold It's first
meeting on May %, the day before the INTERIOR
The college baseball men have hardly yet round,
the season that the smaller colleges win game or
two from their elder fellows For instah &C. na Ne
by Dartmouth and Princeton by Lehgh. This Is
to be expected ana throws htte ,sat upon pom, me
frst-rate batters this year, under the leadership
of De Saulles, who maze reputation lot hiHhsei
in football two years ago There have been ac-
sations in the papers that the Yale men were
playing an unnecessarily rough game. but there
does not seem to be any truth In this Harvard
has excellent backstop in Reid the footoall
player but has not shown much strength In the
box as yet. Little Dibblee, the football captain Is
playing controlled on the Harvard nine now ana
is doing some star base-running. Princeton won
from Cornell last Saturday by very close score,
but she expects 10 be in shape to take her ilrst
game from Harvard in a few days.
People who go wild over the four-mile college
boatraces will have their allegiance divided this
wear for Harvard and Yale will flock by them
selves at New London. while Cornell. Pennsylvania
and Columbia will race az Poughkeepsie as usual.
1t Is too early TO make any predictions whatsoever
as to the outcome of these two races, though the
hard as II the great races were TO be rowed to-
MORROW