The Washington times., 1901-07-08
YALE ATHLETICS REVIEWED.
What the University Has Done in
Sports During the Year.

Sports During the Year.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, July THE ath-
| letic season which has just closed has
| been one of the most interesting in Yale's
| history. Beginning last fall with the
championship football team developed by
f. Gordon Brown, the year has been ore
of remarkable ups and downs. The foot
bali team made a wonderful record, be-
ing scored on but twice, by Columbia and
, by Princeton, and winning all its games,
ending with the great Harvard game at
Yale Field Perhaps never has Yale got
together such football team as that of
last fan. 1t is certain that no better team
will be produced at Yale for some time
to come The track team started out with
Mike" Murphy again at the helm, and
under his guidance developed several star
track and field performers. In Clapp. the
hurdler; Hargrave the sprinter; Sheldon,
the hammer thrower, and Spraker, the
jumper, Yale got together a team of i'm
dividual stars that won the dual meet
with Harvard after one of the hardest
fights ever seen at Yale Field The in
jury sustained by Boardman, the quarter
mile runner, and by Captain Fincke; the
protesting of Spraker, and the failure to
qualify by Stillman in the hammer throw,
gave Yale but a poor chance in the inter
cessful season of developing new men was
an unexpected defeat.
Yale's baseball season was unsuccessful
There is little TO say about it except that
a team that started out early I'm the sea-
son as heavy batters and with every pros
pect of success failed ignominiously Yale
played remarkably fine ball up to the
championship series. With the Princeton
game played in this city on June l the
team slumped. Not a single one of the
championship games was played in the
style that characterized the earlier games,
and the heavy batting for which the team
had been famous went to pieces before
Underhill, Of Princeton, and Clarkson, of
Harvard. The baseball season has not
been a success,
When it comes to reviewing the work of
the Yale crews there is another story to
tell. The athletic season finished in grand
form on the Thames with a victory over
the Crimson oars that has not been duph-
Gated in a score of years. There have
been just as close races and there have
been better and faster crews, but Yale
never won a race with Harvard that was
won by such pure grit and courage as
that. Harvard deserves also all the credit
that can be given her for a hard and
gritty race. There was 10 loafing by
either crew from start to finish. The
credit Tor 9ale's victory belongs in large
degree TO Cameron, who nearly collapsed
at the three and a half mile mark but
pulled himself together by supreme ef-
Tort and put the stroke up to figure that
Won the race. Yale oarsmen will never
forget Cameron's magnificent showing.
Ihe freshman race was a victory for
Yale, but the victory is tempered with
some regrets. 1t must be said that Yale
men, as rule, do not back up the spirit
that prompted the choice of men for the
freshman freshman crew Captain Weymouth
CONN, and Nerrill were not freshmen in
the strictest understanding OF the word
weymouth spent three years at BuckneIl
college before he came here, and caught
Mathewson, New YOrks pitcher while
there. only by stretch of the imagina-
ton could he be called a first year man
at Yale. Coffin has been in Columbia
two years, and in 1899 rowed on the Co
School freshman, and is Yale's intercoI-
Ieglate strong man These three men
formed the nucleus of Yale's boat. Har-
Vard grumbled over the admission of
theBe men to the race and made a formal |
complaint on the day of the race. sending |
Two representatives to Gales Ferry TO |
protest. 1t is said that hint from Yales |
coaches regarding a certain man in Har- |
Narq varsity crew changed the Har- |
ward delegations minds in short or |
der. and nothing more was heard of the |
freshman protest. This is given for what |
1t is worth. but is said by one well ac- |
quainted with the facts
Now that the season of 1901 is over, !
1ale men are looking forward TO next /
year and planning for what they believe /
viii be much more successful season /
than the present one OF the varsity |
Cameron, stroke; Mitchell, No. 5, and |
Waterman, bow. Captain Blagden of this |
years crew will return next year for a /
graduate course, and will row in next /
years boat. This will leave OF the pres /
ent varsity, Blagden, No. Z; Captain Kun |
zig, No. o; Bogue, No. 4; Johnson, No. 3. /
and Hooker, No. 2. With this splendid I
veteran nucleus, and Coffin and Wey-
mouth, of the freshman crew, as bona (
fde candidates the varsity next year 4
seems pretty well cared for. Ii ought to !
be hrst class eight. Bogue is likely to /
be moved to stroke, unless Johnson goes |
up.
In the summer Yale's track team will /
train for the international meet with |
England, to be held iE New York on Sep I
tember 2l- Just where the men win I
train is not decided. They will probably /
go to Simsbury, Conn, or some small +
Connecticut town. Richard Sheldon OF .
New York, the weight thrower. will cap
tain the team in the international meet
Boardman, Clapp, Hargrave, Spraker. /
GoSs, Beck, Thomas. Sheldon. and Dupee /
VIII form Hales nucleus, the final choice /
OF men to be delayed until late IN !
August Training will begin about /
August l.
Football will come to the front again /
as the prime topic OF interest by the mid /
die of August, when Captain Gould will |
order the first set of candidates into /
training. Work VIII begin IN New Haven I
by September 9. 1t is announced that
OIcott, last years centre has decided 10
return this year, and viii play on the
team. OF last years great eleven Cap
tain Brown will leave college, Will
Stillman, tackle; Coy, end; Fincke, quar-
terback, and Perry Hale. fullback. Cap
tain Brown, however will probably re-
turn to coach the team. The eleven will,
in fact, be pretty well broken up.
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA.