Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-06
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less interest than usual this year in
| college championship meetings. On the
| other hand. the university men of the mid
| die west have been exceptionally active.
The rather poor representation Of the east
| was not due to any fear of a defeat at the
| hands of the western men. but was caused
| solely by the attitude of the eastern facul-
| ties. Four or five years ago all the ath-
| letic club teams Of the east We're made up
! largely of college men while still under
| graduates. But now there is a change
| Cornell University took the initiative and
| refused to permit its students to compete
| for athletic clubs at all during the college
year, and in the summer only during the
months of July and August. They probably
| would not be allowed to compete even at
| this time. except for the fact that the uni
| versity being closed the faculty has no con-
troll over the students. The movement to
keep college men off the athletic club teams
is being done in the interest of anna teur
sport, its sponsors claiming that competi-
ton on club teams is professionalizing col
| lege men.
west. especially at Chicago and Milwaukee,
where athletic teams are composed OF the
| best college men in their section OF the
country. In fact. their university year had
hardly closed before their athletes began to
| gather from the different institutions. and
| have been in training almost constantly I'M
| til the preent.
Yale Universitys athletic authorities con-
tinue to have great difficulty in securing a
| suitable successor to Mike Murphy who has
| returned to the University of Pennsylvania
Ever since Murphy announced his intention
to leave the Yale authorities have been on
| a hunt to find man big enough to fill
his shoes. The two men first considered
j arA Ia
| Vile. Pa. and Keene Fitzpatrick Of the
| University of Michigan. But Yales expe-
| rience with them was the same as that Of
! Penn year ago, when they offered princely
| salaries to take charge of the Quaker ath-
| letes Sweeney now receives a salary Of
| at least 5000 year, while Fitzpatrick
| gets $4,000. of which $1,000 is furnished by
| the state. Had either Sweeney or Fitz-
| patrick showed any inclina ton to quit their
institutions for Yale their salaries would
| have been increased in an instant. The vic
| torious teams which these institutions have
| been able to turn out year after year mean
| much more to them than the salaries their
trainers receive.
| With Fitzpatrick and Sweeney out of the
running. the choice of the Yale authorities
has been narrowed down to Steve Farrell
OF Rockville. AL Copeland of New York and
Bowler of Dartmouth College. Although
| these men are experienced in their work.
they do not measure up to Murphy's stand
ard. That this Is so Is shown, by the fact
that Yale has decided to engage another
man to look after the conditioning of the
football men. When Murphy was there he
attended to both the football and the track
squads. coaching the latter entirely. He
will perform a similar service at the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania.
If the signs are read Alright Princeton
University will this fall make a gigantic
effort to compete with New York and Phil
adelphia. as well as New Haven and Cam
bridge. in the matter OF foot ball crowds.
Heretofore the Tigers have been handi-
capped by the smallness OF Princeton and
| its distance from New York and Philadel-
phia. The Princeton authorities. however
have set out to correct this. They first Sc
cured the Army-Navy foot ball game for
their field. and with this as a drawing card
| they secured the cooperation Of the Penn
sylvania railroad. which is now double
| tracking its road from Princeton junction
| to Princeton. The length of time 1t took
! for the crowds to get from the junction to
the city has been one of the drawbacks
which Princeton has had to contend with.
But with 1t removed the Tigers expect to
draw tremendous crowds.
OF equal importance to better railroad
| facilities is the action of the authorities In
| deciding to construct magnificent stadium
| to surpass those possessed by Harvard,
| Pennsylvania and the other universities
| It will not be ready for this fall but
| the authorities hope to have 1t completed
| by 1906 When finished 1t will seat 1000
| Harvard will accommodate. The Tigers do
| not expect to fill 1t very often during the
/, year, but they think that the Yale game
and the Army Navy contest will about tax
| 1t to- the utmost.
The Tigers are already making arrange
| ments for large number of extra seats to
| accommodate the visitors to the Army Navy
| game to be played there December 2. THIS
will be the only really big game OF the
year at Princeton. as the Yale game is to
| be played at New Haven this fall. There
| Is some difference Of opinion as to whether
| or not the Army-Navy crowd will equal
| that which has annually attended the games
played on Franklin Field The ground for
this fear Is the distance Of Princeton from
New York and Philadelphia and the poor
hotel and restaurant facilities. Unless the
] Tigers can obviate this difficulty, as well as
I arrange for larger stands, 1t Is feared that
the removal of the game from Philadelphia
will be o mistake.
Although all the members Of the "Bix
Six" are opposed to the preliminary foot