The Washington times., 1902-07-13
Local BoWlerS Should Be
Entered in National
Tourney.
DUFFEY IN THE IRISH GAMES
Yale and Harvard Differences May Be
Settled in the Fall-College Crews
at Henley Y. M. C. A. Athletics
Dull-Corcoran Cadets.


pin tourney to be held at Asheville,
y c., next month.
There is every reason why this city
should be represented. First of all.
because it is easily possible to send
down a team which would be winner,
and winning ct a national event would
be a sort OF stimulus to the game in this
vicinity.
If the league does not see its way
clear to send down the Carroll Institute
team, the winner of LIST seasons cham
nionship. then let all the teams ge :
together and select an allWashington
five" and send it to represent tie
league and let the expense be borne
by subscription from all the bowlers.
Certainly no man would object to sub
scribing to such fund. 1t would not
cost the man more than dollar or tTo.
Baltimore and Philadelphia are active
ly engaged in selecting their teams, ana
we should be in 1t, too.
Last year Carroll Institute made entry
in the national event at Buffalo, but
unfortunately the entry was received too
late and the money was returned. Now
if the Institute could make entity then,
why not now. when the trip will be
less expensive than that to last seasons
national. Let's get together and make
an entry at once,
Yale and Harvard Agreement.
After six months of negou Il ations Yale
and Harvard are still far apart in their
effort to get on a new lorg term ath-
letic agreement. Meetings of joint com
mittees have been called off until fall.
There is poor prospect of closing the
breach which has existed since the ex-
piration of the fire-year agreement.
Nothing can be done till the return
from Europe of J. J. Storrow, of the
Harvard conference committee. Gould
and Guernsey, Yale athletic captains,
have graduated. Some OF the Harvard
committee have also graduated. A new
committee will have TO be named.
As the Yale-Harvard football game
has been arranged for next fall, there
is no danger of fresh break in their
relations.
Yale and Cornell.
The recent controversy over the eliG-
ibility of Harvard athletes and the wiz
ming of the intercollegiate games has
not tended 10 ease the strained rela-
tions between the two colleges. There
is a party among the Yale alumni who
favor talking with Cornell relative to q
series of crew races but Yale has had
nothing to do with Cornell for several
years because Of other engagements, and
it is understood that Cornell would not
meet Yale in any one branch of ath
letics without a general agreement for
all. Such an agreement Yale is not in
a position to make at present.
Many Yale rowing men favor a tip
to the Henley regatta next year este
ciaily as all the members of the c.ew
of last season. except Captain Kunzig
and possibly Weymouth, viii return to
college.
Objection to Henley.
There are several reasons why col
lege crew would not make a showing in
the Henley regatta. Principal among
these is that 1t is not an intercollegiate
but rather an amateur event, and in en-
tering a crew neither Yale nor Cornell
nor any other college crew would be on
q par with the English crews.
The Henley distance is only one and
one-haf miles. College crews never
train for such short distance, and II
crew were TO be prepared for the |
shorter course, a stroke different from
those used On the Hudson would have |
10 be developed.
Again. the races at Henley are rowed |
in heats, and to this our college crews |
are not accustomed. They would have /
to row three or four races during the /
meet, instead OF having it all over with /
in one afternoon.
Prefer Race With Universities.
II Yale or Cornell could send a crew
to England to row a race like that be- |
tween oxford and Cambridge the case
would be entirely different. The only
disadvantage for the Americans then
would be the change in climate and in
the atmospheric conditions, for he
Ozford-Cambridge race is over a four
mile course and very similar 10 the Yale
Harvard event or the contests on the
Hudson.
Neither Yale nor Cornell has been
asked to row against oxford or Cam
bridge, but II is safe TO say that either
would be glad of The opportunity And
in order to show this desire in a diplo-
natic way the English crews will be in
vited to take part in the Poughkeepsie
or New London event Whether they
viii accept or not is a question, but II
they should not desire to come an in
vitation might be in turn extended by
them to Cornell or Yale TO row in Eng
land.
To Row the Winner.
There is general feeling that race,
for instance, between Cornell or Yale
and oxford. or between Yale or Cornell
and the winner OF the Oxford-Cambridge
race. would arouse a great deal Of inter
est and that 1t would be just the stimu-
lus needed here next year to keep up
the best sort Of work among the crews.
il would be a real test OF merit
in the different strokes and would decide ,
beyond any doubt the superiority OF tho
two nations CT The water. The Oxford ;
C3mbridgc races are held early in the (
spring, hut 1t Is believed that satislsc-