The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-18
COLLEGES CONTEST
FOR SPORT HONORS.
List of Games In Which Stu.
dents Participate Is Grow
ing Longer Each Year


BOSTON. Mass, July 1.-THE Yale
on June % marked the close of the inter
collegiate athletic season fer the academ-
ic year of 1903104. 1t has been one of
the most strenuous athletic seasons on
record: but its most distinguishing fea-
ture, especially in the East has been the
steadily increasing number of sports
which the college athletes have taken up.
Less than a decade ago there were just
four sports in which an effort was made
to decide the question of intercollegiate
supremacy, and often, as occasionally
two or three rival institutions. The four
major sports which then used UP all the
ATHLETIC energy of the undergraduate were
leticS.
Within the last few years. however.
the undergraduates have undertaken to
develop the other and minor sports until
sport for every able bodied student.
In the East there are thirteen branches
Of sport in which the championship title
yond dispute. These are as follows:
Football-Princeton.
BasebaII-Princeton
Track AthleticS-Yale
*Rowing-1- Syracuse; 9 Yale.
Golf-Haryard.
Tennis-Singles, Pennsylvania; doubles,
Columbia
Observation-Disclosures.
Cricket-Haverford
crosSe-Swarthmore.
Fencing-West Point.
Hockey-Harvard.
Shooting-Harvard.
GymnaSticS-Yaie.
intercollegiate Championship in row.
ing divided between Syracuse and. Yale.
which won the Poughkeepsie and New
London regattas respectively but did not
compete against each other
Holders OF Western Honors
The holders of the Western intercol-
legiate championships are
Football-Michigan.
Baseball-Illinois.
Track Athletics-Michigan.
1t is not often that the end of the foot
ball. season leaves the championship SO
clear cut Princeton by defeating Yale,
which in turn downed Harvard. the con-
queror of Pennsylvania is easily entitled
to first honors. The chances of Michl-
gan victory were much debated last fall
but there was no meeting. The consensus
of opinion. however, was that the Tigers
would have won.
Princeton is likewise the holder of base
ball championship, thus securing the two
most important athletic championships of
the year. There are those who Will dis
pute Princeton's title to baseball honors
because the Tigers We're defeated twice
by Georgetown, once by Pennsylvania and
by other minor colleges. But with the
exception of the one Pennsylvania game
the Tigers We're not preparing for the
games in which they were defeated, for
ly have won them princeton Won the
Yale series. and although Harvard also
defeated Yale the Tigers made their claim
to the championship sure by trouncing
Harvard in the one game played
In track athletics Yale, by capturing
first place at the intercollegiate meet on
Franklin field in May. demonstrated her
Michigan won similar honors at the con-
ference meet in Chicago.
Rowing In Doubt
There is naturally a great deal of argu-
ment as to which institution deserves the
rowing championship. Syracuse won the
gatta, while Yale did likewise at New
London. As the crews of Syracuse and
Yale did not meet, it is impossible to
decide the question in this way. SYRIA
cuse certainly has more right to claim the
championship than Yale. because the
Poughkeepsie regatta is primarily an in
tercollegiate affair. while the Yale-Har-
ward and Yale have been invited to send
crews to Poughkeepsie. but have refused
each year, so that they have no rea-
son to complain if Syracuse claims the
title.
The golf championship was divided be-
tweent Harvard and Princeton. Harvard
won the team championship and Prince
ton the individual honors, through the
tercollegiate tennis tournament E.. B.
Dewhurst of the University of Pennsyl-
wanna won the singles and Columbia the
doubles.
The basketball championship was de-
cided in the winter by a regular schedule,
the only sport in which this method was
used. In a series of ten games Columbia
was not defeated once, and carried off
first honors, with Pennsylvania second.
Hayerford college triumphed in cricket.
defeating Pennsylvania. Harvard and
Cornell, the other members of the league.
Swarthmore college holds undisputed
claim to lacrosse championship by beat
ing every college of Importance East
West, North and South. even trouncing
the Toronto university champions in easy
fashion.
Fencing Honors to Cadets
The West Point military academy car
ried off the honors in the fencing tourna-
ment. which was held in New York last
March. easily defeating their college
rivals. The hockey championship was
won by Harvard, after desperate strug-
gle with Yale. Harvard Won her third
championship of the year by making the
best score in the intercollegiate shoot
held at New Haven last fall. The gym
nastic championship was settled in New
York. and was won by Yale
Several other sports. such as chess
bowling. billiards checkers, and swim
ming. are fostered at the leading universe
ties. but no attempt has ever been made
to hold intercollegiate tournaments in
them. though in most there are dual meet
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