The times., 1899-06-25
4 week Of
COLLEGE BOAT RACES
Coming international Athletic
Meeting.
Saengerbnnd and c. A. c. viii
Bowl for a Silver Cup.
Y. VI. e. A. Has Clever Tennis Play.
ers-NntiOnaI Guard Gymna-
SUM Closed.

The series of boat races to be rowed
this week by the big college crews at New
London and Poughkeepsie, respectively,
are dividing the interest of the sport-loving
! public with the preparations for the ma
tional and international track and field
events to be run off within the next fort
night or so.
The weeks aquatic sport will begin to-
morrow afternoon on the Hudson at
/ Poughkeepsie, when, at o'clock the four
cared crews of Cornell and Pennsylvania
will row.
At 8 o'clock the freshmen lights of
Cornell, Pennsy. and Columbia will row
for honors over two-mile stretch
The next day, at $50 o'clock the above
universities and Wisconsin will be repre-
| sented by their varsity eights." Their
race will be over four-mie course.
On Thursday the scene of action will be
shifted to the Thames at classic New Lon
don, in the Nutmeg State On that day at
! 10 a. M, weather and condition of water
permitting the Yale and Harvard fresh
men "eights" will speed their shells over
| a two-mile course.
On the same day at $3.50 O'Clock, with the
| same proviso as to water and weather, the
/
! sity "eights" in "fours," with coxswans.
will make it warm for one another over the
| same two-mile course.
If everything goes well, and If the water
! behaves itself and does not get too rough,
! the same afternoon at 4:30 o'clock will see
1 the Yale and Harvard Varsity eights face
| the starter for a four-mile race. and this,
as in a long number of years gone by,
will be the great college aquatic event
/ of the year.
Three races in one day is almost too
much of good thing, and it is too much
/ to expect the wind and water to be on
| their good behavior when SO much de-
I pends upon fair conditions. 1t is more than
! likely that the big varsity will have to
be rowed Friday.
! With the exception of two or three years
I recently, these big 'varsities have had
their races ever since 1852, believe, upon
which occasion history tells us that Har-
| ward won. and that the excitement at the
| finish was so great that the official time
ers forgot their duty, and the time was
not taken.
In 1897 Cornell was invited to come, and
make it a triangular race, with Yale and
Harvard, and we all remember how the
Comedians then, as last year defeated the
blue" and the crimson" both of whom
this year shook off the proteges of Charlie
Courtney. and will. 'as in days of DID,"
| fight it out between themselves.
Harvard is touted to win at New Haven
and Cornell at Poughkeepsie. Cornell won
the triangular race at New London last
year and Pennsy won at Saratoga from
Cornell, Harvard, and Wisconsin.
international Athletes Galore.
International track and field meets are
becoming as numerous, almost, as compe-
titions held on the athletic fields of this or
the other side for home honors. First TO
be arranged was the Yale-Harvard and
Oxford Cambridge meeting to be held at
London July %. Next the Carrick- on -Suer
Club of Ireland arranged to pay the
Knckerbocker Athletic Club of New York
visit, and incidentally will try to defeat
their American cousins in all sorts OF
events. They will arrive here tomorrow
and the games will be held July at Ber-
gen Point.
Now the report comes that team made
! up of the stars and record holders selected
from all the big athletic clubs of England
will come over during the summer to meet
a composite team of our stars and record
smashers. This will be an ideal meet and
will give better test of the ability of the
athletes of the two countries than the or
binary competitions could possibly furnish.
1t will be, for instance, the record holder
in the 100-yards sprint of this country
against the holder Of the record in the
same event on the other side of the Big
pond. and so on through all the events. 1t
will give admirers of athletic sport the
best kind of an opportunity to study the
various styles and methods employed by
the contestiGs athletes to attain the same
result.
Especially interesting in this respect will
be the field events, and particularly so the
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two stars on this side get over the bar in
the same manner and with this bswilder-
ing variety of means to secure the same
end it seems impossible that our English
cousins could have still other styles of
clearing the bar, but they have neverthe-
less.
If matters for the coming-oyer can BE-
satisfactorily arranged it will be one of the
most interesting series OF athletic contests
ever presented here, it will be the first
time the real champions and record hold
ers, not second and third men, of two
countries have been arrayed against each
other.
The last trip reported to be arranged
but which will of course, not come to pass
until next year, is that of the Princeton
team TO Paris to compete in the Olympic
games 10 be held during the exposition
period. 1t was the Princeton team which
away nearly all the prizes. 1t was upon
that occasion that Robert Garrett bzat the
Greeks at their own favorite game. throw
ing the discus, and established ths n a
worlds record for that sport. The Olym-
pic games are held every four years, and
Paris among its other great entertainments
for next year will have the honor of en-
tertaining the athletes from all over the
world, and none the least formidable
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these shores.
1t is now in order for Pennsy to bestir
herself and arrange also to send over a
team of her worldbeaters for as it at
present stands that team of track and field
men stands unrivaled, on this side OF the
water, at least.
Columbia Athletic Club.
The delightful weather of the past week
had the effect of materially increasing the
attendance at the Columbia Athletic Club
boathouse, and each evening an eight or
two and a four, to say nothing OF num-
Der of pleasure boats, left the broad float
for spin, and Lieutenant HecoX was cor
respondingly happy.
Hecox, stroke; McClelland, 3: Ellis, g
and .'Midge" Ross, bow, is a four which
did several stretches Thursday afternoon
in good shape, showing some speed and
better form. Ross has developed into
somewhat of n bowman and cuts out a
pretty course for his crew.
Charlie Bakers four is quite a feature
in an afternoons busy rowing picture. 1t
is probable this crew may arrange a race
with Heeox's four to be rowed on club re-
gatta day,
Prof. John Crossley formerly physical
instructor of the club, has returned to the
city from Hamilton College New York