New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-06
COLLEGE GAMES TODAY.
YALE PLAYS DARTMOUTH AND fhl->ON
TON EXPECTS VICTORY OVER BROWN
ON TRACK AND FIELD.

| r,.,..o, oxroc.s q fairly easy game OF baseball
with Brown this afternoon. The PROVIDENCE '0'
leee usually gets together a strong aggreed"oh -
baseball PLAYERS but thus far this year the WORK
has heen below par. Yale ran up heaVy ScoIe ~
| ber game with Brown, and although the contest
| today will he played the Rhode Island coiIeEe
diamond the Tigers expect 10 bat out WIZ!
without much worrying. The princeton hi"e ~
WAYS trains during the beginning OF inc sedSo,
nth tic owes set on the first game with Harvard
which IS usually played early in May at Prncetoh'
THE saason the contest is set for next SATURDAY
| o,d the Tigers expect 10 be victorious. Complaints
come from Cambridge this year that the men lhul-
vidually put up a fair game. but that 'heE sno"
little life and no evidence Of team work Ana 'nS
"a desnite the fact that the same system OF graz
nate coaching that proved so effective IN footpdH
loo, fall has been adopted in baseball; That Is 10
cav ono head coach with plenary powers as 10
| Motley general form, etc. has been appo'"''u'
with number % sub-coaches. men VINO are Ne'-
Grams and experts in some particular posluon'
Thus Louis rockingham. 49, who captained the
nine that waloped both Yale and Princeton Is
| head coach and he is assisted by half dozen men
who helped Harvard 10 win name Tor herseh III
baseball in the late eighties
! Coach Carter of Yale. around WHOM next to
Stase cluster the most brilliant memories OF what
n vale baseball pitcher can be. is quoted as highly
pleased with the work that his pets are DONG
Several changes have been made that are plainly
| conductive TO better team work. and one or TWO
uaak noints have been greatly strengthened Be
hind the bat the Blue is not overstrong sullivan
who is backstop. throws miseraoly 10 bases ~
| times though II is expected that he Will stead!
with more practice in hard games. There ought
10 be hrst-rate practice in the game against Dart
| mouth to-day 70. the Hanover youths defeated
Harvard only short time ago. Yales games with
Princeton are TO be played on successive Satur-
days beginning June at New Haven II the game
on June u at Princeton leaves the series tie.
then the match will be played off in New-Nork on
June IT,
Columbia will hold her annual spring games at
/ Columbia Oval this afternoon. and it Is expected
| that n frst-rste showing will he made. Unusual
| interest In athletics Is being shown al Columbia
this wear and an effort is being made 10 win back
| some Of the od-me prestige that the Blue and
/ White used 10 have track and held
| The City College will hold Us spring sports
| to-day al the Berkeley oval. This college mas
considering its size, done remarkably well in attn
| letics, the records showing that In points won
| A. A. A. A. have surpassed the City College. and
/ only one o. these, Dartmouth. may be considered
among the smaller colleges. the others, Harvard.
| Yale. Columbia Pennsylvania and Princeton twhose
records stand in the order Just named). being able
/ TO draw vastly larger student body
! The HaTvaro-Yale dual games are only a week
distant ana the usual tales OF woe as 10 sprained
ankles strained tendons and obdurate parents arc
! beginning to float down, both from New Haven
/ and Cambridge But IT will be safe TO say that
| both teams will be wholly NJ when they come 10
! the post on Yale Field. Harvard Is counting great
! things upon the sprinting OF one or two of her
! Law School men who not eligible TO compete
last year but Yale has generally been stronger AZ
the short distances. and rather looks 10 get first
games viii be hotly fought, and may not be de-
| cided until the last tape Is broken.