New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-21
IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS
College Swimming Championships
Po5cer Boat Racing.
AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL.


l50yard relay swimming for the intercollegiate
championship o. Saturday night at the New-YorE
Athletic Club. For four years Columbia has been
successful ia winning the relay race, and it was
sad blow 10 the Morningside team TO 90 down TO
defeat = the New-Haven CCllestans ana 70 nave
Pennsylvania get second place. Hardly foot sep
arated the three teams at the finish The water
polo match was also exciting. The Yale swimmers.
with the score to l against them, started IN
the second half with a determination 70 win.
and clearly outplayed the local university men.
shutting them out in this half. the game ending
to il Yale's favor c. " Daniels the seventeen
yeur-oId boy who has been doing such remarkable
work n the tank this season. lowered the record
for the 44o-yard metropolitan championship. held
by himself, and continued on in tho race to the
5o-yard maxi. and broke that lie also the
22o-yard championship. He did not have TO exert
himself In either race.
The New West Side Athletic Club games at the
I'd Regiment Armory Saturday night pracu-
cally close the indoor season. well filed entry
list and large crowd OF spectators told Of the
interest taken this year IN indoor sports. Charles
Bacon. T., the former champion. won the half
milo IN q close finish lowering the armory
record for the distance by two-ffths OF a second.
John Joyce and George Bonhag, who had been
loudly heralded starters IN this race caused
much disappointment by falling to appear.
Power boat racing next summer promises TO equal
in interest the racing OF the sailing craft IN many
cases II Is 20 prove more exciting. for in tho
contests between the high powered open launches
which have been dubbed automobile racing boats
greater speed viii be shown than has ever been
developed IN craft Of similar length As an instance
OF the interest taken IN power boat racing. by
what might be termed the neutral element, out OF
dozen yaChtsmen who sent in subscriptions the
secretary OF the American Power Boat Association
to the fund for the gold challenge cup TO be raced
for the coming season only two were owners o.
power boats the rest were either owners Of sailing
craft or ron-yacht owners. In order to establish
a rating the owners OF power boats now nearing
completion VIII take them soon possible 10
Manhassett Bay. where officially measured mile
course has been laid or and them over It IN
the presence OF o. the officers OF the assocla-
ton who will then be able 70 issue certificate OF
rating and classification be used in all the
IN which the boat enters during the summer
Whether some OF the races OF the so-caIied auto
mobile boats viii be under rules adopted by the
Automobile Association OF America or not. II IS
certain that these boats will have under the
rules Of the American Power Boat Association II
they enter n its races.
The Transportation Club VIII hold It's eighth an
nual dinner tomorrow evening at O'Clock. The
president Of the club Senator Depew, will preside
and the guests VIII be men Identified with the use
or manufacture OF automobiles or the Advancement
Of autor0obinE. Among the guests are winthrop
r. ScarrItt. president o: the Automobile Club Of
America; Colonel Albert a. Pope. James T. Dill.
John Brlsben Walker. Henry Sanderson, James II.
Macdonald. Z. D. Gallaher. Windsor T White.
=. L. Smith. Robert SIcA. Lloyd. Z. II. Kittridgc
s T. Davis. jr.. ". J BudIonE. T. A. Ia Roche and
Percy owen.
At q recent meeting OK the Florida East Coast
Automobile Association the former president. Dr.
r. IT. Secye. was succeeded by C. G.. Purgoync
formerly a well known printer q this city now a
permanent resident Of Daytona- John p. Park!n-
son was reelected secretary. and : r. Grove was
chosen again os treasurer. 4 new board Of six
dre-tors-Dr. Y. Il Seelye, George Clark. ". H.
Peters. J. J.. Hathaway. Louis Adler and J. W
Wilkinson-takes the place OF the old executive
committee. Next year the races VIII be all invita-
ton contests. and an increased entrance Zee VIII
De charged. The dates Tor next winters meet will
be between January Il and February 6. President
Charles c.. BurGovue tole-raphed w J. Morgan
S he ' ias scd sf fr b6- 10 S sur o sac.
OF $4,000
Encouraged by their showing at the Mohawk Attn
letic Club run on WashInEton's Birthday. IN which
they got first. second and third place and team
and novice prizes. the Mott Haven Athletic Club
members have decided TO hold open cross couu-
try run handicap on April 10. The run will start
at the Jerome Hotel. and the turn will be the
Ionkers boundary line. a distance o: about nine
mi!es. Prizes viii be awarded TO first second and
third men-gold. silver and bronze medals. respe.-
lively. \ cup win be given 70 the man making the
time.
Owing 70 the fact that more than twenty-five
entries have already been received for the national
amateur boxing CHAMPIONSHIPS 20 be held at
Mechanics Building on March IS. It looks as Il
the committee would have TO hold preliuinarles
Nev--York. Newark. Brooklyn and Philadelphia VIII
invade Boston with a string Of fifteen men, and
there will De at least ten more local entries Before
be training for the competitions. IL would be
an injustice to the men 70 have them box more
Of over four wiz be benefited by having pre-
uminaries he'd March %
The forty-hfth games Of the 9TH Regiment viii
be held at the armory April 9. There viii be
several innovations. the noteworthy being the
substitution of IC0-yard for the S3-yard dash The
7th is the only armory IN Manhattan where 100
Yards stralChtaway can be run. The programme
run in heavy marching order: 22J-yard dash. rescue
rae military relay pole vault and the pistures,ius
company whose athletes score the most points.
rjafs for the relav team which is to represent the
7th In the games Of the 18TH Regiment Saturday
next have been held, and the following sFr-IJers
ouglifed: Bla ck!edge. Terry, Nyrick and Hughes.
CAPTAIN Hurley OF the Harvard football team has
announced that spring football practice begins the
first Of next month and continues Until the spring
recess. As IN FORMER ystIs. Je itt.L--e va! re
ing. tack-g ana so forth, and possibly o. !1e-ups
during the latter part Of the second week
Cornell athletics viii he under suspicion until
some exclamation is offered for the decidedly ques-
tionahIe action OF her hockey management in play
Ing man not member OF the university II is
s- such pieces Of dishonesty as this appears 20 -
JhsI F'g ms A. long as there are laws not en-
forced all even the most important viii te ia&ly
enforced.
"Reaeh's American League oflciaI Guide for
1904 published by the a J Reach Company. OF