Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
COLLEGE. ATHLETICS.
Activity in Every Depart
ment IS Manifest.
THE BASE BALL TEAMS
is
HARVARD land PRINCETON
SHOULD HAVE THE STRONGEST.
Great Things Expected in the Different
Rowing Regattas-Track Events
Will Be Interesting.

| The last week of ideal spring weather
| enabled college athletes to transfer their
| operations from the indoor to the outdoor
| field with a rush. For the next three
| months university undergraduates will d.
| vide the attention of the sporting world
| with their professional rivals. II the 1904
| intercollegiate athletic season was a record
| breaker that of 1905 promises to eclipse 1t,
| for it is no exaggeration to say that the
various universities of the east never start
| ed spring work with better prospects than
| this year.
| True to their custom, the base ball teams
were the first to begin their schedule Al
| though the base ball season in reality
| opened on Saturday, March 25 few OF the
| principal colleges were able to play their
| Scheduled games until last week. Yale and
! the University of Pennsylvania had an espe-
| cially nauspicious start, both losing theiI
! initial contests Little Fordham defeated
| the Ellis 10 to / and Manhattan again shut
| out Yale at New Haven on "Wednesday by
| the score of to O. At Philadelphia Penn
lost to Ursinus by the score of to 3.
| Princeton and Georgetown, in the mean
| time were winning their early games in
| manner that betokened considerable strength
as the season ages
| Drawing conclusions from the number OF
| candidates held over from last year Har-
| ward and Princeton should have the strong
| est teams of the big Six" At Harvard
| there are only two vacant positions, the
| most important Of which was made when
| Clarkson joined the New York Americans.
! The Crimson has had the advantage of good
| coaching in Chesbro and Keller and should
| therefore be strong in all departments of
| the game. In Coburn and Stephenson Har-
| ward will have one of the strongest college
| batteries in the east, and with such men
| as Captain Randall, Matthews and McCarty
for an infield the Crimson will be especially
| ia Princeton
! their 1904 championship nine the Tigers
| have feathered their nest well with prom
Using freshmen. and under the coaching OF
| Hildebrand and Jennings, may be depended
/ upon to care for themselves, and perhaps
| win another championship.
| In spite of Yale's poor showing on the
| diamond of late years, the Ellis have not
| lost hope, and this year engaged Lush OF
| the Cleveland Americans to turn out a base
| ball team strong enough to hold its own
| with Yale's invincible foot ball team. The
| Ellis have lost several of their veterans
from last year, but have enough left to
| form strong nucleus. Where the Ellis will
| be the weakest is in their battery Yale
| is concentrating her coaching strength on
| out a winning team At Pennsylvania
| Captain Cariss is generally admitted to be
| leading forlorn hope. or last years team
| there are but two veterans eligible. These
| are Carss himself and PITCHER Crimean.
A., the others are new men. most of them
| freshmen. In spite of this dark outlook
| Coach Coogan is working courageously
| away but with a poor prospect of winning
many championship games from Harvard,
| Yale, Princeton and Cornell What Corneu
| and Columbia will do. is problematical in
the extreme. Neither college loses heavily
| by graduation. but as neither ever accom-
| plished much in base ball little Is expected
| of them. though both should do better than
| In 1904. ~ = ...
OF the minor. colleges, much is expected
| of Georgetown, Manhattan. Fordham and
Holy Cross. all of which have discourag-
| ing way. OF defeating their alleged supe-
riors Of the "Big Six" with considerable
veterans from 1904, but the southerners
| have never made a poor showing on the
| diamond and may be depended upon to
| take good care Of themselves this year.
| On the Water.
| All of the colleges which devote their at
| tention to rowing have been on the water
| for a week more. The University OF
| Pennsylvania Fights were the first to leave
| the rowing machines indoors, and they have
| been rowing on the Sehuylkill for the last
| two weeks. They were followed closely by
Yale Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and
| Syracuse, all of which went on the water
| at about the same time. No devotee' OF
Eauuatic sports could ask for a better Sched-
| ule of rowing events than that arranged
for 1905. Next to the intercollegiate re-
| gattas at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and at New
|
l will be the regatta of the American Row
| ing Association, popularity known as the
| American Henley to be helo on the
Schuylkill May 27c Success has been as
| sured to the intercollegiate feature or TINS
! meeting by the formal entry of Cornell,
| Harvard Pennsylvania and Georgetown,
| Although Yale, Columbia and Syracuse have
| not yet sent in their entry Two OF three
| of them are expected TO De represented ny
| junior Fights.
This win be the first time that representa-
| tives of the two big intercollegiate regattas
| of the east have met each other, ana the
| success of the Junior regatta. it is believed,
! will shortly bring about the merging OF the
| Poughkeepsie and New London regattas,
| and the determination once ana TOT al OF
what crew is he champion. AS matters now
| stand this honor must be equally divided
| by Yale and Syracuse. The eligibility cooe
| of the stewards provides that any oarsman
| who has never sat in q varsity sneil, either
| at Poughkeepsie or New London, may row
| in the junior regatta at Philadelphla:
| ON the same day as the American Henley
| the Cornell and Harvard VARSITY eights Mn Mll
meet In a notable race at Cambridge Inc
| act of Harvard in agreeing to let ner var
| sity eight row Cornell IS great surprise
| in view of Harvards previous attitude on
the rowing question Ihoss , mosl co4 Me
| wards growing lberality OF view means
the speedy dissolution OF the harvard are
dual regatta at New London and tne pres
| ence of both Of these crews at Pough-
| keepsie.
The rowing outlook at the various col
Ieges which make up the big Six Is all
that could be sdesired. Syracuse. whose
eight won the Roughkeepsie regatta last
| June has ner entire crew intact, and Coach
Ten Eyck boldly predicts that the crew
| will repeat its victories on July l. Cornell
has been visited with . series OF disasters
| during the last week, and because of sick
| ness, departure. from, the university and
| other causes onfy two veterans are left for
| the varsity eight sC6ach Courtney. how
| ever, always has the largest squad OF oars
men of any of the colleges from which to
select crew and it win be hard luck in
| deed if the ItBicans fail to turn out a
strong eight. Pennsylvania has extremely
| bright prospectsa. having lost only one
| member of theA1SOA crew. Nearly all of
| the men who are nowotrying for the var
| sity eight have had a,Vear or more Of ex-
perience in university growing, and are ale
| ready showing gsod form ON the river.
1 Both Georgetown and Columbia. who
4 have had rathersindinerent success in the