New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-29

first basenan. Allen OF last years squad also
has had to postpone his entry into college baseball
owing to illness He is IN fine fettle this year and
is pitching lust now better ball than any other
Yale pitcher In Bell and Thorn. Yale has two
left handed pitchers. who viii be coached to help
out IN emergency.
Captain Burnside wInsIow IS catching all the
varsity pitchers In Irwin. OF the football squad.
and Leslie a former Exeter catcher. he has two
star substitute backstOps. Thompson Of last years
second team is also candidate for this position.
This array OF baseball talent is without parallel at
Yale IN recent years at least IN battery work. and
Captain Winslow expects to be able to land the
championship with them.
The Yale varsity took TO the water this last
week launching the first shell OF the season be-
tween cakes o. Ice in the har5or 1t had come to
De so late IN the year FOR beginning outdoor p-ac
uce that Captain cross ives under the necessity
% Ius4.lLs ne H-O1ILeIs ute ana settlng under
way. already the crew is two weeks behind sched-
uIe. and a. second crew is to be got ready for
Annapolis early In May. and another crew for the
Henley on May 30. the boating experts see that
good men TIE r5os7 p-oul1ert OF whom IL wbitnev
last years freshman stroke. There is no man OF
four-mile experience 70 put in at stroke AID this
Fiersrr q b-otHe- ~ tEs 'Sf csa-ai1 Is also IN
line for his position in the "a shell as is Dom
work 70 varsity standard ~ the recently started
Sys,e or e5ss Iy@9s az tRss Las , -.
the varsity men yet nor viii there be until ~
open water practice Is adyanced week or more;
published. OF the financial showing OF Yale athletics
G AM 5e5e rs tg tSIaI ~ Ies-iv t5 Sr From
football alone the receipts were half this amount
on the expense side $1,000 Of his amount was paid
ont not Including Se2.e0 for new football stands
The increase over last year was f2Ss2 But however
legitimate many q the expenses included IN this
great have been. many or these seemingly
alarming figures are admitted 70 be too large. The
real for complaint. however. among the Yale
undergraduates. who have TO paw subscriptions at
the OF s. head to help swell the total IS or
different sort. The COuul1iut IS made that Yale
athletic finances carried along too loosely alto
Eether. and that for travelling. hotels and out
Of-tOwn meals and local training tables the sums
paid Of all proportion 20 the benefit derived
In other words ale undergraduates who criticisa
the present system. well as graduate students
OF the subject. would not care II this great amount
OF money spent for the physical good OF the
urderCrafud tes who give their extra time to ath-
letirs The criticism is that much Of the money IS
speut for accessories for coaches and for unneces
sarv things. Thus. for some years 70 has been
growing cause for criticism az Yale IN athletic
finances that the football con hes always use two
hacks day during the football season IN which TO
ride alongside the trolley route 20 Yale Field. where
the PLAYERS so in sDectal trolley y,ars-
As has been published n vivid Idea Of what Yale
receives from her srorts can be Ened BY the state
meut that the sport receipts each year would pay
the salaries OF forty Yale professors and that cap
it7lfzpd. the amount represented would be more
than half OF all Ta'os invested treasury funds and
more than al the Yale funds OF twenty-five years