Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-02

he usual way Tom Burke has novel
theory 10 u. matter According TO him
most mems right arm is stronger than the
left, and as a man In running is going in
a circle he claims that the right or strong
est arm, when away from the pole. is able
to help more than the left. a plausible eN-
planation at least.
In the running broad jump and running
| high jump the Americans again find an un-
accustomed state OF affairs. The English
jump from the running track having a short
run leading up to where the track begins
and placing the standards for the high
jump just at the inner edge OF the track.
In the broad jump a man may jump from
wherever he pleases, so that he lands In the
pit, the measurement being taken from
where he leaves the ground to where there is
distinct heel mark, not as is the Ameri-
can rule, from where the earth is first
broken. In the hammer throw. too the
competitor has % foot ring in which to
! maneuver and any throw which he may
| let fly in this space is measured from his
foot mark TO the weight. Thus It may be
| seen that the Americans have no sinecure
| in attempting TO wrest a victory from tie
| Englshmen on a track entirely different
from what they have been accustomed to,
and on which their opponents, having had
| the experience Of the oxford Cambridge
| dual games are thoroughly accustomed
The hurdles are run on the turf but this
will not affect Fox for he can go as fast
| that way as on the cinders, and his daily
practice Is all being done on a path espe-
| cially laid on the grass on Holmes Field.
| The second place where Harvard and Yale
| will find a distinct disadvantage is in the
! matter of trainers. according to the dual
| agreement no professional trainer will be
allowed to accompany the team, and right
on this point the Americans should have
| made strenuous objection.
! The work of training the Harvard team
will be undertaken by Evart Wendell and
| George b. Morrison. Both are old-timers
and the game has changed so much since
| they were in harness that the idea of the
| training being entrusted entirely to them
| does not jibe with hopes for a victory.
| Should Harvard and Yale decide to go
| abroad under the present status, they are
| practically putting themselves in their OPP
ponents hands. or course all the men are
seasoned athletes and should need only
| little work to put them in shape to COM
pete but the climatic changes which smote
| the Yale team which went abroad in the
| summer OF 93 with such vehemence would
| seem to demand the services OF man skilled
in conditioning athletes. and who knows
| the men with whom he is to work.
Thus it can be seen that Americas job
! is no sinecure and the outlook far from
roseate. To win in England will be found
! an arduous and difficult task and one which
| could have been made much easier by TAX
| ing steps to bring off the meet earlier
| However, the main thing is to have the
| sports become an annual event. and to
serve this end victory can we'll be sacrificed
to the future good of amateur srort.
| Harvard's luck has finally turned and for
the first time in eight years it lowered the
| blue of Yale in the annual boat race rowed on
| Thursday. Not only did it win with the
| Varsity eight, but also with its Freshman
crew and with its crew composed of four
| substitutes.
| Yale was evidently slipping away from its
Cook form of rowing, while Harvard was
following somewhat after the English style
and also somewhat after the westerners
from Wisconsin, who gave them such a
4, fright in the other races.
| Wisconsin was the surprise of the year
Put down by all as the long odds crew and
| With uolulHB tApSCleu VI IL Dul last, II up-
| set all calculations. When, with a steady
] thirty-two-stroke, Wisconsin was ahead at
the first mile, all the wise ones said, "Well,
Wisconsin is probably good for mile" At
! the second mile, when still maintaining the
| lead, they did not know what to make of it
| and began to open their eyes and to realize
that new giant had sprung from the west.
| At the third mile Wisconsin was still in
the lead and rowing easily with no appear
ance of fatigue. Pennsylvania and Cornell
were getting desperate and were strainng
every sinew. They began to realize that
they had a foeman worthy of their efforts
and who was trained to go the whole course.
/ But as they neared the finish hard luck be
fell the boys from the west. A huge berry
crate loomed up right in front, and as these
paperlike shells are not constructed to
puncture berry crates the coXswain had to
swerve the boat strongly to the right, and
this, and this alone, cost Wisconsin the
race. They could not get back into the
course and were forced to row among the
excursion boats in the dead water, while
Pennsylvania, quickening its stroke to
thirty-six, took advantage OF Wisconsin S
mishap and won the race.
This does not detract from Wisconsin at
all, as it is conceded by all that the Badgers
would have won had it not been for the
berry crate.
For the Fourth of July the Young Mems
Christian association has arranged great
program OF sport and has a varied enough
program to delight the most fastidous In
the first pdace a ball game will be played
between those old favorltes, the University
club and the Young Mems Christian as
sociation team. Captain Abbott has secured