The times., 1899-07-06
ATHLETES OFF, FOR ENGLAND.
The HarvRrd-Yaies Jpint Team Sets
Sail on the ST. Louis

The HarvHrd-Yaies Jpint Team Sets
Sail on the St. Louis.
New York, July 5.-Among the passen-
gers who sailed this morning on the Amer
lean line steamship st, Louis for England
were the Harvard Yale athletes, who are
to compete against the pick of the ath-
letes from Oxford and Cambridge universi-
ties on July %, at Queens Ground, Lon
don. The. members of the team left the
Fifth Avenue Hotelss soon after S o'clock
this morning in carriages and drove di-
rect to the pier at the foct of Vesey
Street There were a large number of
personal friends of the athletes present
to see them off.
After the usual scenes OF -handshaking
on board the steamship and when all
the visitors had been sent ashore, about
two hundred friends of the members OF
the Harvard Yale team congregated on the
west end of the pier and awaited the de-
parture of the st. Louis. For fully three
minutes. while the big steamer backed into
the stream, the members of the American
team stood on the upper deck near the
bow and gave their vigorous college yells
in response to the yells of their friends.
There seemed to be a preponderance of
Yale flags among the group of college en-
lack of crimson in evidence for the boys
from Cambridge.
Whenever a group OF Yale men on the
pier Joined in a yell for Yale the entire
Harvard-Yale team on board the steamship
responded with a cheer and a college yell
for Yale. And then with equal enthusiasm
the Yale members of the team Joined the
Harvard athletics in sending up a ringing
cheer and yell for Harvard in response to
q ma lrfi irp tf,,er
ents on the pier. Thus alternately for Har-
ward and Yale the students and their
| friends on the pier, and the combined team
on the steamship sent up cheers for Har-
ward and Yale. All the passengers, who
| by this time had begun to realize that
there was an unusual aggregation of talent
on board, were enthusiastic. They, too,
Joined in the cheers. first for one college
/ and then for another.
Young women who found themselves
| possessed of blue ribbons or parasols
waved for Yale, and those who happened to
nave ribbons with shade of red in them
shook them at the students every time
there was demand for the crimson. These
We're merely impromptu displays of colors.
But on the pier there were plenty of colors
Which had been brought along for the oc-
casion.
The whistle of the st. Louis blew longer
into the river, but above the blasts of the
whistles could easily be distinguished the
vocal pyrotechnics of the lusty -lunged
! athletes. The cheers were kept up at short
but Irregular intervals until the steamship
was in midstream, and even then the flags
OF Yale and Harvard were -wagging
from the bow of the st. Louis in response
TO the waving of colors from the wharf.
The final makeup of the team, de-
cided upon after the special trials in the
broad and high jumps at Bergen Point yes
terday, finds the doubtful places filled by
| Harvard men. A. n. Rice and C. NJ.
Rotch, the only competitors to appear in
the high jump, both qualified for the team.
The other additional selection was ]. T.
Harrington, who took second in the broad
jump. The complete list of the members
OF the joint team is as follows:
Harvard. T. Roche (Captain) and F.
]. Quinlan, sprinters; A. n. Rice and c..
NJ. Rotch, high jump; G. D. Daily and j.
T. Harrington, broad jump; T. E. Burke,
| middle distance; H. B. Clarke and H. W.
Foote, long distance; F. S. Fox and ]. w.
Hallowell, hurdlers and w. A. Boal and
II. ]. Brown, hammer throwers.
Yaie-F. 4. Blount and c. Dupree sprin-
ters; j. P. Adams, middle distance; D..
Boardman and T. R. Fisher, (Captain)
quarter mile; H. B. Smith, C. B. Spit
ger, and c. X. Palmer, long distance; w.
NJ. Fincke, hurdler.
The fact that in the special two-mile run
,, yesterday the long distance men, Palmer,
Clarke, and Foote, broke both Harvard and
Yale records, promises well for the Amer
leans in their three-mile contest with
the Englishmen.
Upon their arrival in England the team
will go Immediately TO Brighton to re-
main there the ten days preceding the con-
tests. Training, .chiefly with a view to
| making the athletes familiar with the Eng
lish track, will be carried on steadily. The
joint committee of Yale and Harvard de-
cided upon a short stay in England, so
that the climatic changes might have as
little influence as possible upon the
Americans. This plan was deemed more
was deemed more advisable than to stay
| sufficiently long to insure acclimatization.
There were several Yale and Harvard
men who left on the st. Louis today. and
others will go on later steamships in time
TO be on the field when the American ath-
| letes are competing with the English
| in. strength and skill.
Walter Camp, of Yale, and his wife. are
among the passengers on the St. Louis.
He will attend the games.