New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-14
CHAMPIONSHIP LACROSSE.
Harvard to Meet Team from Or
ford and Cambridge.

--,-sdg. Mass June ls-Harvard viii meet q
combined lacrosse team from Oxford ana Cam
,,-45sa universities England, Soldiers Field
next Wednesday. In the first international contest
81 SIS kind ever held on this SIDE Of the Atlantic
and the second IN the history Of the game
Some wears ago q team representing HarVaro 1dAe
snd Princeton made a tour through England play
.-r the leading universities and giving e great
s-5-,,,lBS N the snort which Ergfishmen at that
time had only recently taken up- Since then there
have been no international contests here oxIoro
has played lacrosse regularly, and the game also
has taken a firm hold the American colleges
Az Harvard where IL was introduced twenty-five
wears or SO ago the game has increased steadily
~ popularity -
The game which will be played on Soldiers Field
next wednesday. coming only a day before the
F5srvs-d-Ysle baseball game and only two days
before Ea-vards class day, is Of the big feat
11res of commencement week, and promises 10
attract almost many persons rs the pig IAN
football games The fact that II Is held on BUNKER
F5iIf Dsv one OF Bostou's biggest holidays. VIII
help matters too. and when the two teams hIle
W against each other the big grandstands on
Soldiers Field will probably hold muiutuoe
greater than has ever before assembled TO Witness
any spr1nEtime athletic contest on the CRIMSON
battle-ground
49, of tho British players come from oxford,
where the game has been played for many years
and where they have an exceedingly strong team.
Cambridge University only introduced Tie spur
recently and will contribute only few players
and more substitutes the English team Hal
.z-d has z team which, II Il has not made an al
together perfect showing so far TINS season WIN
enter the game with the ETgshInen lar stroisei
-,s most necnle think il is Starting the season
with only three old players as a nucleus me tei
has labored under great disadvantages ana II -
only within the last week SO that II mas really
begun 70 pull itself into form In IT'S carry game
AFTER having defeated the College OF the SI'S "a
Nex-York it was in turn defeated oy FehI r,
,snia the Crescent Athletic Club Of New - DIX
orr Cornell and Hobart. All Of these games
however were close and well played anu u i1
ward lost by q narrow margin she a1so ie0i
many things which she has been sl"IIi4s ioi
future use when she meets the Enghshmen next
Wednesday.
TIE English custom is 10 depend on long throws
and open work while Harvard plays a fast snappy
game with quick spirits and accurate passing
ks plans now stand the Englshnen viii arrive IN
Msp-York City on Tuesday and after d snort prac-
q on the grounds Of the Crescent Athletic Cluo
hat afternoon viii start for Cambridge "heFe
they viii play Harvard the day following.
Colleges in the United States. wrapped UP In foot
fall baseball and rowing, say nothing OF endless
track sports have been somewhat slow in taking
ur me game which the Canadians adopted from
me Indians Its introduction here is due more than
srvthine else &c The presence Of Canadian young
men in American colleges. They have been coming
II ever increasing numbers and we're surprised 10
fno their fellow students CID know. could not
Tsz Lacrosse
4 there were one o. Canadians in the college
rracrise the game among themselves Even practice
Is fascinating 10 look Al and soon other students
were clarnorinr 10 be taught IT is easy
ies-n but .he-e is something about which holds
the amateur once started. something akin the
5cyE OF polo So one by one 'tV-eves'
gsn,zed N various colleges until il has come 10 be
PLAYED generally and nearly al OF the larger uni
versities take part in the intercollegiate series.
Lacrosse WIS left IL the French Csnadisns-liEe
the snoushoe the nnoccasin and the canoe-by
the Indians The form Of play has changed de-
cioedly. but the ides goes hs ok 70 the years and
years before the white and his beads and his
~hiskey 70 corrupt the physical perfection Of
the red man The very nature Of the game Is
Indian. which could hardly be said of our other
esrnee Of football and baseball.
There If q little pamphlet obscure now from age
which probably not one lacrosse player in ten TO
Cay hes seen. which tells tie romantic story OF
fhe game i wss written rwoscore wears ago
hearty br Q u. Beers. WIN Is also responsible
~ making lacrosse the Canada stionsl game.
Ee knew II glorious game. end said so
cn all occasions. ne started teams and spread the
germ until sii Canada took n up
Al frsf played under different names
hasgstaway. teiontsesissaheks and otne'