New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-19
AMONG COLLEGE ATHLETES
THE COMING HARvARD-YALB BASEBALL
sER1Es-wHEREIN THE VARSITY
CREWS EXCEL EACH

OIdER.
In the college baseball world the only remaining
games OF importance are the series between Har-
ward and Yale that will begin at Cambridge next
Thursday The second contest Of the series will be
played at New-Haven the following Tuesday,
and in case Of tie the third game will of in
this city on July /. Despite the Yale defeat by
Princeton on Saturday. the chances for the series
seem TO favor the blue the crimson The Yale
nine can play frst-rate baseball and hardly did
Itself justice last Saturday. Harvard. however. has
certainly improved greatly since the time when
Princeton won her two straight games with such
ease. The last week has two Harvard VIC
tories Holy Cross. which has Of the
strongest mines among all the colleges. barring
none. Both these games were 1o-innng affairs
and the crimson players showed steadiness and
nerve. Moreover. they batted we'll What the
Harvard nine has lacked wofuy all season has
been confidence in itself The recent victories
to have inspired some OF that confidence
The tide turned when Harvard triumphed over
Pennsylvania in the second game Of their series
This brace, however. comes pretty late in the sea-
son-hardly soon enough, 1t would seem. to enable
the TO capture more than one out Of three
games with Yale II was by the way, unfortunate
that Harvard and Pennsylvania unable TO
play of the tie in their series. The deciding game
had been scheduled for last Tuesday at Boston,
but Professor Hollis. of the Harvard Athletic Com
mittee declined TO allow the game 10 be played on
other than college grounds. The Quakers naturally
were unwilling TO play again on Soldiers
Field and owing TO examinations the Harvard
nine was unable to leave town for some neutral
college diamond So the game was abandoned.
Princeton's title TO the college baseball cham
pionship IS clear this year. though perhaps If there
had been a regular league the Georgetown Uni
versity team might have made a strong bid for
first place There is nothing. however, 10 dim the
ustre OF the Tigers coats. Two easy victories over
Harvard and a regular walkover in the deciding
game with Yale form record in which no flaws
can be picked.
MATTERS AT NEw-LONDON
The brisk breezes that ripple the waters OF the
Thames bear on their wings reports from New
London that the Yale crew is very slow this year
and that the Harvard eight is rowing in consider
ably better form 1t is 10 be noted, however. that
the Yale men do not appear to be lying awake
nights over the situation and that Harvard sup
por,ers are no more jubiant than usual The
truth seems 10 be about like this: Yale has set
OF heavy. powerful men in her varsity boat. who
are individually nimble enough perhaps. but who
taken together. have a decided tendency TO heavi-
ness and sluggshness. DR.. Galaudet head coach
and all the old Yale oarsmen have been working
for month to knock out this sluggishness. and
they have done a good deal toward It. II II can be
done away with altogether and the race then be-
comes a question OF endurance assuming that the
form Of the two crews is about EVEN, then Yale's
superior endurance and power Will surely win. But
NJ the Yale men continue exhibit that lack OF
aIertness Harvard has good fighting chance for
one OF her victories on the water
Outside OF the greater life which at this writing
the Harvard men display in their work. there is
only one other feature in which the crimson eight
is superior TO the Yale varsity, and that is in water
manship. The Cambridge rowers are good water
men This is the work that the Weld and the
Newell Rowing clubs. az Harvard, have accom-
plished. and it has been worth while. Not less
than one hundred and fifty or one hundred and
seventy-hve men have been splashing about the
Charles for two or three years past in singe-scul
shells pair-oars, four-oars and eght-oared barges.
and the results OF this show clearly IN the water
manshlp Of the present varsity crew
CRITICISMS ON HARVARD METHODS.
AS for the charges OF favoritsm and bias that
have been made public in the last week against
Coach Storrow and Captain Higginson by an old
Harvard man. they appear TO be without the slight
est foundation. The charge that Boston and the
Back Bay dominate Harvard athletics is made not
infrequently. Fifteen years ago there was perfect
truth IN the charge but since that time there have
probably been only three or four instances in which
such a charge might have had any justification. The
case OF the present varsity crew IS emphatcally
one OF those instances E. c. stoTrow the pres
ent coach is the last man who would tolerate that
sort Of thing When he was in college he picked
out the best he could lay his hands on and his
crew contained some notable instances Of the
farmer" The is the case o. the present
varsity boat No longer than fortnight ago Mr.
storrow displaced Perkins at No. 2 for Evans. Now
a Porcelain member and a brother Of two former
Harvard crew captains but he is also one OF the
varsity crew before this The man Evans who has
replaced him Is member OF the graduate school
circles. He has no pull" OF any sort. And critics
TO be fair should bear in mind that an individually
fine oarsman. like Perkins and others who could
be mentioned, is not necessarily the one to fit into
iargey Of adjustment and adaptation to the condi-
tons that must govern the whole -.
are superior TO Harvards as they seem 10 be, Har
wards freshman boat appears to move faster
candidates an unusually strong one, and u
has been well Gpes nTs b hSd ay ee on
Under the tutorship Of Donovan and Of J. J. Stor-
row FoSted Yale badly in that year and who is an
elder brother OF the varsity cCaGh Tne harvapd
they DO not yet get the full use Of their legs. but
they are Improving
AT POUGHKBEPsIE
After announcements and counter-snnouncements
n has finally been determined that the race at
Poughkeepsie on June q shall be rowed on the
shore course II is of course. possible, as the
oarsmen say that this course gives an advantage
or disadvantage as the case may be. 10 the outer
crew But what the public wants Is 10 ger sooo
sght Of the struggle close hand. and that could
"a, have been done with the crews rowing out In
,,fdstream So the collegians and their frienos
VINO will do the shouting will be satisfied. al any
rate The final decision for the shore course was
- nv the United States revenue authorities, who
an.tared that II would be quite impossible TO ponce
sSeoustely the mdstream course . -
n he blR varsity crews that are 70 compete on
tsudsor have now arrived at their quarters
ave the wisconsin men. who val come aas' 1Is
ssse ,< Camel has disappointed Courtney more
b"n ne has been willing 10 confess and II LOOKS
tI.@ ~ - Oh the Ithacan crew would De INFERIOR 70
as lhouSr. ,r- ersmen OF 81 and IS A good deal
OF development IS yet needed on 1 1h9 P@ form and
tolnSS" yvith the Pennsylyanians somewhat Gil
frenty the danger seems 10 be no hat and good
@ - csre will have to be exercised 10 pies nm
their going stale before the 6sy , OF me Quarters IS
we Startling but the students who VIZ Peet Declare
olue az az crau, il recovering from It's slump Oh q