New-York tribune., 1903-01-26
YALE AND HARVARD ATHLETICS.
Outlook for the Track Teams-Eleotions at
NeW-Eaven.

New-Haven, Jan 25 (SpeciaD.-The Yale track
season which will open February 10 with the
first general call for candidates, will be the most
important in several years as the outcome or thls
years ntercolle giate games will settle the winner
of the Mott Haven Cup, offered for the largest
number of wins in fourteen years. Yale has now
won the championship five years, Harvard and
PENNSYLVANIA four times each, and, this is the
last year, Yale will keep the cup if it is won by
the New-Haven team. The outlook now, as fore
casted by Captain J. B. Thomas. is encouraging.
though Harvard will send to the intercollegiate
games fully good set of men as Yale. Last
year Yale took first, five seconds and three
thirds to Harvard's two frstS, three seconds one
third and four fourths. Excepting men who
may develop during the season-and Yale has sew
eraI including Shevlin. the champion amateur
twelve pound hammer thrower-the outlook is at
this time about
Yale will have a number of veterans back this
year among them Mouton, in the sprints: Long
in the quarter mile; Jacobus, one mile; Franchot
two miles; Capp, hurdles; Fallows. broad jump;
Jack high jump, and Beck, shot put. Harvard
will have Shck. Lightner and Haigh, sprints:
Iightner and Rust. in the 44O-yard DASH Converse.
the winner of the hurdles; Piper, hammer throw.
and Tingley and Robinson. shot put.
Besides these experienced Harvard will have
a number of dual meet champions in Behr and
Clerk in the long runs, Bird and Scheuber in the
hurdles and Herman and Murphy in the high jump.
From the dual meets Yale will have Deming,
Stevens. Wadron and Bumstead. in the long runs;
j. B. Thomas II the hurdles, GoSs III the Sllot put
Harris hammer throw. and Preston and Thompson
the pole vault All of these men were point win
ners il the Harvard Yale meet last year.
Yale will also send into the Intercollegiate this
wear a number of men, some of whom have
shown great promise. Lilley will be in the dashes.
Hastings and Donahue in the longer runs. Milburn
in the hurdles Du Val and r. H Thomas in the
high jump, Bodman and Bowman in the broad
jump, Kinney and Glass in the shot put. Bergan.
Hogan and Shevlin in the hammer throw OF
these Bowman, Shevlin and Kinney
freshmen who played the varsity football
team last fail. Besides them the football team
will send Goss, Hogan and Glass to the track team
At the meeting tomorrow night an lmpor-
change will be made in the present method of
electng assistant managers for the various uni
class. Up to now it has been customary to elect
in mass meeting the assistant mana gers, but this
has been found be loose method and liable
to elect not the best Hereafter the sopho
more class will nominate two for assistant
manager. the election TO come before the general
university meeting later.
The election Of managers of the 1868 football
team will be held next week, after which the
football captain will be elected. The choice of
Glass for this office hangs largely upon the eligi-
bity rules TO be adopted by the Yale-Harvard
conference. Yale will fight hard for Glass as he
is regarded here eligible. 1t is not likely, how
ever. that d split between the two universities will
result from the question in spite OF rumors to
that effect published recently.
= case definite agreement results from the
conference the project started last fall of sending
a joint Blue and Crimson track team across the
water to meet Oxford and Cambridge next sum
will be again taken up Yale crossed three
made their first trip to this country, meeting
Harvard and Yale and losing. The score OF
meets is now all. Both Harvard and Yale
men are much Interested in the proposed trip