The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-19

| In college spor:s fcc'r.li. rowing and
| baseball attract moro attention than any
of the Others. and their Importance with
| the students Is Ia the o:daF named. Track
and field athletics come next These four
| branches OF competition are In g. class by
/ themselves. 81 far AZ ri'0r,,necce with col
legians and tie general pubilc Is concerned.
| though several n: present riiapr branches
are growing L. Interest Tnc hoEors sccru-
Ing from the coutsstS Of skin, hrs!a. lawn,
excitement ard tam wc-k III tae cciicC c
year just closed riirkt nave ,'es- distributed
about more thar tary w=r@: ue"srs;:cies So,
1t was not year In wtisll Any OH college
lowered to any great extent oyer o;hers.
Victories were won in che branch only 10
be Offset by defeats In others. and in the
entire season of competition it was luck
less college indeed that found no balm.
All things considered. Yale did the best
work of the year in collegiate and intercol-
legiate compe:ition-!n the East at any rate.
The University of Michigan was very prom
inent in the West. winning the football hon
ors. the track and field championships and
the four-mile re,ay race at the champion
ship contests promoted by the University Of
Penrsylvania-con which are look ,l
forward to with more relish each year
Yale won the one-mile relay championship
at Philadelphia: won the most priced crown
of all. the football championship. with the
strongest team ever put on the gridiron.
Won the intercollegiate athletic games; won
the dual athletic meet with Harvard. and
scored sweeping triumph over Harvard in
the boat races.
In rowing. Yale's triple victory over Har-
ward was not as great as Cornell's on the
Hudson. The Ithacans also won the four
oar freshman and varsity races from a
larger field than Yale had to contend with
The Comedians are regarded, and Justly, as
peerless in rowing. Whether or not they
could vanquish Yale could only be decided
by a test. 1t is easy enough to say that
Yale would not have had chance at
Poughkeepsie. but the mere say-so of an
EXPERT does not make 1t so. The Yale fresh
man crew held the two-mle record on the
hudson up to this year. However. the Cor
nell varsity crews beat Yale and Harvard
the last two times the three did meet, and
the burden of proof is with Yale
Harvard bore off the palm. so far as
Yale was concerned. at baseball. and in
TINS sport Princeton came to the front,
beating both Harvard and Yale. Right here
Is solace for Pennsylvania. for the Quakers
be S9s 10
Tigers. But Brown is TO be reckoned with
in that regard. Harvard. Yale and Prince
ton, ton We're beaten by Brown. and Brown.
nnli championship as the next one. The
championship aa laqreis were pretty evenly di
BroWn a an5 srbsns s} ala the and
might be made in the order named. While
me Quakers' victory over Princeton was
bis b leather in their cap they were beaten
The season of sport opened in October
With the Intercollegiate. tennis tournament
come of fT6 eoege tennis Such Paxess thu usually
last fall. Harvard winning from Yale,
Princeton. Pennsylvania and Columbia in
e eo1h singles and doubles il, Inc Harvard
the fray, and later in the month they won