New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-03
COLLEGE STRUGGLES NEAR
CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL IN THE NEXT
TWO WEEKS-THE COMING
BOAT RACES.

deciding of both the HarVdro-ffiiioe''ii anu ~
Yale-Princeton series. and after that the oniy
games of much importance remaining VIII DC
the three between Harvard and Yale the last
part of the month.
70 many college men the surprise of the sea-
son TO date has been the exceptionally strong
gait which the Harvard nine seems TO nave
struck and maintained. despite occasional laiis
from, grace The Harvard nine won the
game from Princeton last Saturday, winch
the Tigers had fully counted upon Tor
victory. because the men in crimson went IN
10 win the game from the very start anu u'N
not let up for a single second until the game
was won Captain Reid was responsible in large
measure for the victory. for not only ala ne
ran ont n single and a home run, which brought
in the winning tales but he kept his men up
on their toes all the time 1t has been refnarkeu
before in this column that Reid is not one OIL
those gentle dreamy players that some'llhes
have found place Harvard mines. Out Is
extremely aggressive and up TO snun AT ali the
fire points of the game. His absence was no
ticesble IN the Memorial Day game with George
town. when the Harvard players were in list
less form. and lost the game by to s. They
copld do nothing whatever with Whites pitch-
inr and there was considerable grumbling after
the game was over. Harvard expects. however
to in from Brown in the game which is oelns
p,ayed at Providence on June ?, at the time OF
this writing.
WHERE YALE HAS BEEN WEAK
An, estimate Of the comparative work Of the
Yale and Princeton mines must be Imperfect
with the result of the game that is being played
at New-Iaven at the time of this writing sun
in question There has. however, been goou
deal OF worry in baseball circles at NeW-HaNeh
in the last three weeks for the nine has not
been arriving First one member and then an
eff in
second base. has been falling down considerably
in his playing and the veteran Sullivan, VINO
has been plaving at rightfeld for some tirnH
has been making hatful of errors. In the last
game with Brown, on Wednesday IN WHICH
Yale was defeated Sullivan was moved back TO
catcher where he did pretty good WORK. Inc
bright particular stars of the team nave oeeh
Sharpe. who has been covering first oase III eN
cellent STYLE and has been hitting the ball haro'
and Cooke last years pitcher, who' at cen'i'
field. has been covering brilliantly large
a-oo,nt Of territory and who has been batting
or strongly as any other man the team. Pro-
xidine only Yale takes her accustomed praSe
and comes out OF the Princeton ana harvard
series in creditahle shape, all the early deleats
will be forgotten. at the same time, il has peen
an UNUSUAL record for Yale to have lost the
series with Brown, and with Georgetown-ln
each series being beaten two games out OF
three.
Princeton's preliminary work Of the season
has been excellent. but the burning question
which only the future can solve Is whether the
TIGERS did not arrive at the zenith of their
mowers too early in the season ana are now
going down hill. The defeat by Harvard might
indicate some such state Of affairs but on the
other hand. that may have been simply an OH
cav for Princeton, who had won her series de-
cjsively from both Brown and Georgetown VINO
in turn had defeated Yale and Harvard
Among the other colleges besides the three So
called leaders whose work has been touched
llpon Brown and Georgetown both stano out
conspicuously by reason of their victories over
Yale and Harvard. though it remains to be seen
whether Harvard may not ultimately WIN her
series from the Providence nine. Washburn, for
Brown and White for Georgetown, have Deen
doing some splendid work in the box; ana lhelr
E11reriors are not to be found at the present
time on any college nine. Williams and W eS-
leyan have also been doing some credltaple
work.
ON THE THAMES AND THE HUDSON.
The three Yale crews-varsity, four cared and
freshman-wiIl start for New-London, bag and
baggage launch and shells. coaches and rub
bers, cooks and bottle washers, on June Z. and
will occupy the same quarters as last year. There
has been practically no change in the makeup
of the varsity crew in the last fortnight Me
decken left the boat for few days, but soon
went back to No. >, and is doing good work
The freshman crew is said not to be up TO the
standard Of usual Yale freshman Fights, and Is
rot developing TO the satisfaction Of the coaches.
1t is expected however. that when the crews get
On the Thames the usual rapid improvement will
at once be apparent. They will have three long
weeks to get ready for their races with Harvard
The Harvard freshman crew had chance to
try its skill recently against the. Worcester
High School eight on Lake Quinsigamond. that
historic sheet of water that has seen so many
stirring aquatic struggles. The Crimson fresh
men had difficulty in winning, beating out
the school boys by three boat lengths in the
mile and half. This victory is of apparently
little account however, for in spite OF ii Har-
ward coaches say their freshmen are below par,
although rounding into shape. No brilliant
change has been made in the Harvard boat, and
II looks now il the eight was made up in the
way in which Il will finally at New-London.
Anent the Poughkeepsie races, the news OF
chief interest is the extremely interesting an
nouncement that Georgetown University viii
send eight Dared crew TO compete in the
varsity races. This will bring the total number
OF contestants in the big varsity struggle up
10 six-Corneli, Pennsylvania, Columbia Wis
consin Syracuse and Georgetown. This is
about the first entrance Of the two universities
last named in the competition with the big
crews and, barring accidents. il is hardly to be
expected that they viii do better than bring up
the rear os the procession. In addition to these
six varsity Fights there will be four freshman
crews and three four cared crews. making
total of thirteen college crews the Hudson
With so many contestants, il must inevitably
be the case that the Poughkeepsie this
year viii dwarf in general public interest the
New-London struggle. Arrangements are al
ready being perfected at Poughkeep5e to
able these thirteen crews to have ample prac
tice stretches, AND three distinct four mile
courses have been arranged, running from five
miles below the big bridge to seven above.
The races Memorial Day on the Schuykll
gith The second crews of Cornell, Pennsylvania
G.ld Columbia competing, came out exactly
Coach Ellis Ward, OF the Quakers. had pre-
oicted, namely, with Pennsylvania ahead by a
good. fair margin, and with Columbia bringing
up the rear, after q pretty struggle with Cornell