Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-02
Princeton Picked to Win Base
Ball Championship.
GEORGETOWN WE'LL UP
LOCALS SHOULD MAKE AN EXCEL
LENT SHOWING.
Plans for Relay Races - The POUCH
keepsie Regatta - Radical
Foot Ball Reform.

now far enough advanced to enable the
critics to pick out the teams which will be
| in at the finish for the intercollegiate cham
pionship. IL champion team can be picked
at ALL OF all the big colleges. Princeton,
Georgetown and Harvard are the only ones
which appear to be up to the standard ex-
| pected of university mines. Yale and Penn
| sylvania have been grievous disappointments
| to their following, but they have been
| showing steady progress since their first
| chapter of disasters. and there Is still a
chance for them to finish in the front rank.
| 1t is greatly to be regretted that George
town and Harvard failed to meet each
| other this spring for the Washington nine
Is one of the strongest the Blue and Gray
| has turned out in recent years. and ought
to have chance to play all the leaders.
The Harvard nine has not had thorough
test yet. The Crimson schedule this year
is very poor. and was made worse when
Harvard Cancelled her games with Annap-
oils and Trinity before starting on the
southern trip. Just why Harvard took a
southern trip is a matter for conjecture,
because they had no mes in sight when
they started They stopped off in Phila-
delphia and hastily arranged a game with
the Carlisle Indians, whom they beat %
to 2, and yesterday they played another
game in the Quaker city with Williams
AS a result OF the cancellation OF THESE
games Ha award will have to play her cham
pionship contests without having been tried
out.
In spite of Princeton's defeat at the hands
of the Andover lads, many followers of col
lege base ball like the chances of the Tigers
for first place this year. Princeton Is es-
pecially strong at the bat. and has two
very dependa BILE pitchers in Cook and BY
ram. The Cornell and Columbia mines ap-
pear to be in about the same class with
Yale and Penn, though neither has played
enough hard games to enable one to form
| correct estimate of It's strength.
The Relay Carnival.
The first and likewise of the greatest
| intercollegiate track and field meetings Of
the year, will be held Saturday, April 20,
the occasion being the University of Penn
sylvania's tenth annual relay carnival. Ac-
cording to present indications the games
will not only eclipse all previous relay
meetings, but will bring together greater
| number of university and school athletes,
and from wider territory than all the
other athletic meetings planned for the
year combined. The entry list now COM
prises more than 1.40O individual athletes,
of which number it Is certain more than
/ 200 will be present. Viewed from the
number of competitors and the area Of the
country represented the relay carnival will
even supersede the intercollegiate cham
pionships to be held on Franklin Field May
interested as the athletes themselves is
proven by the advance sale of seats. Last
year more than 10000 persons saw the
games, but this year the management has
been obliged to prepare for a throng OF
1900. The University of Pennsylvania will
act as the host to the visiting athletes and
will give them banquet after the games.
One of the features Of the meeting will
be the clash between the east and the west.
The westerners have been preparing for
these games since early last winter. There
is nothing the westerners dislike more than
to have the superiority of the east flung
at them. and this year, headed by Michigan
and Chicago, they are coming to Franklin
Field determined ito show up the effete
east. The relay carnival is the only OPP
portunity the western universities have to
show their strength and they propose to
make the best of it.
Although every event on the program will
be interesting the feature of the day will
be the three big relay races at one mile
two miles and four miles. which carry with
them the intercollegiate championship of
America. Although there are six competf-
tors in the mile the race will be fought out
by just three of them. These are PennsyI-
vania, Yale and Chicago. So evenly match
ed do these three appear to be that it is
altogether likely that the worlds record of
32l 2-5, established by Harvard in 1902, Will
be lowered The fact that Penn's quartet
has twice beaten Yale during the winter
makes the Quakers a favorite over the Ellis
but the Chicago team will be the dark
horse. The Quakers will use Taylor, the
intercollegiate quarter-mile champion and
record holder, 40 is seconds; Hyman, so 2-5
seconds and Shaw and Greene, both Of the
latter being able to equal 81 seconds. Yale
will be represented by Gates. Burnap, John
ston and Sheffield or Hastings. The Chi
cago team will probably be Taylor, Cor
man, Blair and Lightbody. After making
due allowance for the strength of the west
erners it Is not thought that they can beat
the experienced Pennsylvania quartet.
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Next in interest to this event will be the
four-mie contest, which. like that for the
last two years, will be a duel between
Michigan and Yale. For some unaccounta-
Bile reason Mike Murphy would sooner see
Yale defeat Michigan in the four-miIe event
than to smash world records in either of
the other races. For this reason he has
decided to weaken his world championship
two-mile team by putting it's strongest run
ners, Parsons and Hill, on the four-mle
| team, solely to beat Michigan Whether
this will beat the westerners remains to be
| seen, but 1t is doubted here. Although
Michigan has lot her veteran, Kellogg, she
has picked up another star in Coe. who, If
| he can run outdoors as fast as indoors, can
beat anything Yale will produce. Prince
| ton will also be strong factor In this race
with Williams and Chaplin, but Is not
thought strong enough to trouble either
Yale or Michigan.
If Yale weakens her two-mile team to
strengthen the four-mile quartet, Cornell
Will easily be the favorite for the two-mile
| idCS. ihS AtuHdCduS Idu the ELS q naTQ
race when they made their new world rec
ord this winter at Buffalo, and are easily
| the strongest team 1 nthe field outside of
Yale. The newest entry Is Dartmouth seen
at the relay races for the first time The
New Hampshire college has four fast half
miiers. with which they expect to be right
up at the finish. Syracuse, Penn, and
Princeton will also be strong, but all of
these have concentrated their strength In
the other events.
\ X
The field events this year will be Just as
exciting as ever. In the shot-put Rose and
Coe. the two bitter rivals for world cham
pionship honors, will have the first meet
Ing of their careers outdoors Both have
been working hard in expectation of set
ting the worlds record beyond the fifty
foot mark Other strong competitors will
be Capt. Boyd of Pennsylvania, Porter of
Cornell Dunlap Of Michigan, Schoenfuss of
Harvard. all Of whom have done forty-fiye
feet or better In the hammer throw Shey-
lin OF Yale appears to have the better of
the argument.
The pole vault will witness struggle be-
tween the east and west. The west will be
represented by Fishleigh of Michigan. who
Is said to be good for close to twelve feet.
Capt. McLanahan of Yale will represent
the east and as he has already done bet
than twelve feet hs, is cliubt %,x,o..to