The times., 1899-06-11
YALE And HARVARD VS..
OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE
Make Up of the American Team
in Doubt.
Close Of Georgetown's Athletic
Season.
Results of the Last Y. VI. c. 4. Indoor
Contests Show shnw to Be
the Lender.

and Harvard has accepted the challenge
to meet Oxford and Cambridge in a set Of
track and field games to be held at Lon
don, July %. The matter of selecting
date which would best suit the purpose
was OF considerable difficulty. First July
u. ID, or ii was proposed but neither of
these would do. as they do not fall on
Saturday. which on the other side of the
pond as on this is regarded the best day
of the week for holding an athletic event
of any kind. July Is was next proposed
but that was found to be the date fixed
for two great social and athletic affairs
the Eton and Harrow Cricket match and
the Eclipse races at Sandown Park. Then
it was decided to fix upon July p, the Sat
urday preceding the GoodwoOd races.
which all London attends and which also
marks the breaking up of the social sea
son of that great metropolis
From now an immense amount of in
terest will be taken first in the selection
of the amaIagamated team, then in its
work and in its departure and finally in
the outcome OF the meeting. Unfortu-
nately neither Yale nor Harvard are very
strong this season either in track or field
athletes as was shown at the intercollegi-
ate championships held May 27, when
Pennsylvania scored 81 points as against
IS for Harvard and % 1-2 for Yale, and
these with Princeton with her II points
aggregated Just a little more than Penn
sy's total.
The only events which went TO Harvard
were a first in the half mile run by T. f.
Burke in 1.5s As minutes; a second in the
12O yards hurdles by L. z. Fox; a second
in the 220 yards hurdle By NJ. G. Morse;
third in the running broad jump by c. d.
Haley; q third in the sixteen pound shot
by H. j. Brown; a third in the hammer
throwing event by W. A Boal; a second
in the running high jump by A. n. Rice.
Yales points in addition 10 several fourth
places were made by ]. F. Adams, third
in the half mile run: T. R. Fisher. second.
in the $40 yards run; d. Boardman, second
in the 229 yards dash; first and second in
the pole vault by R. C. Clapp, and b.
johnson. respectively.
AS against this rather poor showing
Pennsy won first place in nine of the thir-
teen events run OF for the collegiate
championship. Pennsy should have been
included in the challenge, and then We
could have made quite a showing TO beat
out our English cousins. but the latter
were very wise not to include the cham
pions-
1t remains to be seen if our collegians
do as well against the English team as the
New York Athletic Club did on this side
TWO or three years ago, when q combi-
nation team OF English and Irish athletes
came over expecting to burn up the track
and field with their accomplishments, and
we're themselves so badly burned that they
failed to win more than one or two first
places.
1t may be possible for the Yale and Har-
ward coachers to whip their men into top
notchers. now that international honors
are ar stake, but since Trainer Murphy left
Yale to go TO the Pennsy athletes the lat
ter have become record-breakers and world
beaters. while the blue Of Yale has rather
gone back than advanced. AS to Harvard,
but little has been accomplished in ath-
letic sports in the past FIVE or six years.
II either of these big universities had
a Tewkesbury and Cregan and a KranZ-
lein and Baxter and a McCraeken there
would no necessity for feeling uneasy
about the outcome when the great varsi-
ties meet in London in July In the mean
time all our country will form itself into
a great army of "rooters'' for the blue
and the crimson" and the hope of every
body is that the athletes will come back
winners OF every event in which they
compete.
Y. VI. c. 4. Athletes.
The past weeks high temperature melt
ed away a goodly part OF the enthusiasm
in the ranks Of the gymnasium classes of
the Young Mems Christian Association.
but Mr.. Rideout proposes to stick it out,
as the interest in the work is such that it
will take more than a little hot spell to
break it up.
In the meantime those who have forsak-
en- the indoor work are doing goodly share
of outdoor practice in various lines and es-
pecially in tennis in view OF the coming
tourney which will be held on the asso-
citation courts, beginning June 10, upon
which date the doubles will begin theil
competition. while the singles will opeI
the next day. Already quite number Of
entries have been made and the tourney
promises to develop a number of excel
lent players who have hitherto played onl!
for the fun of the thing, and have never
appeared in competition. Entries clost
next Saturday evening at s o'clock ant
drawings for the preliminaries will be hat
Immediately after close of entries. Sin,
giles and doubles will play on alternat.
days Until all are finished. Gold medals
VIII be given TO first and silver ones u
Of % cents will be charged for singles ant
so cents for doubles.
The tourney is open to all Y NJ c. A
members, and among those who have mad'
entry are:
Doubles-Phil BaIlinger and Raoul L,
Mat. J. R. Craighill and E. s. Gee
Singles-Harry S. Greene. J. Lewis Rig
giles. A. w. Bache, Louis W. Weaver. Rob
ert Proctor. James R. Craighill. Phil Bal
linger E. s. Gee c. G. Gatiey RaouI IA
Mat
Saturday, May 1s, Is still the record da,
for attendance, as there appeared on tn
gymnasium floor for class work seventy
two bustiing youngsters.
The last indoor competition was an in
teresting one, and some very clever all
round work was shown by half dozen YER
promising athletes. C. Z. Shaw led tn
evening with a total OF 24i points to hi
credit, made up OF 10 for doing feet l.
iE the standing high jump, SO for puttin
12-pound shot 81 feet 1-2 inches, 62 70
doing feet 1-2 inch in the running higl
jump. and 56 for climbing the bar II times
points for each time. Second man wa
]. NJ. Bartels. with ia points to his credit
earned on a standing high Jump OF fee
IL inches. putting l2-pound shot 10 fee
S; running high dive 4 feet l-2 inches
climbing the bar Is times. Hlye Tempt
came next, with total of 166. H. Eicke
and G. r. Shilling were tied at I62 The
were also tie at the running high div
at feet 10 I-2 inches. Next to Shaw
Eiclkel made the longest put of the IL
pound shot at so feet, and Shilling led tn
oil DTIID IDcn