Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

er Moakley even thinks he can win the
mile and then beat Parsons in the half
Murphy, the Yale trainer has two good
milers in Alcott and Hill, who he thinks
can make Munson run in record time to
win the mile. and thus incapacitate him
for second race.
In the two miles Yale has a very good
man in Hale, who ran in $40 % at the
Yale-Prnceton meet Cornell, however
has two very fast men in McGoffin and
Willgoose, either of whom can beat 10 min
utes with ease. In the hurdles Amsler of
pennsylvania is the fayorte for both
events. He has not been beaten this year
and has met every hurdler in the east. He
has done the 120 in Is 3-5 and the 800 in "a
seconds. AS all of the hurdlers who scored
in the 120 yards last year are out he should
win in decisive fashion. Ashburner and
Vonnegut both of Cornell are the favor
ties for second and third places in the high
hurdles and Castleman of Colgate, for the
low sticks.
Harvard and Yale universities have taken
long step IN reforming the athletic eligi-
bility codes heretofore inforced at their
own institutions and also at other univer-
sites. By unanimous agreement they have
provided that any student who, before the
age of nineteen years, violated the eligible
ity code as regards the acceptance of
money may. after serving two years pro-
baton. be reinstated at the discretion OF
the university authorities concerned. This
is not countenancing professionalism The
question was brought up by the case of
sprinter Gilbert of Harvard. Gilbert &C
knOwledged that when he was twelve years
old he ran race for prize of 81. Ac-
cording to the A. A. L. rules and the inter-
collegiate rules as we'll this makes Gilbert
a professional. But the thing was so
trifling and was done so long ago and at
a time when the boy never realized what it
would mean in after life. that the Harvard
and Yale authorities well admitted that
the strict Interpretation of the rules would
bar Gilbert from all intercollegiate ath-
leticS.
In providing for the whitewashing Of
such cases Harvard and Yale have shown
that they think athletics should be con-
Quoted for the students and that any bona
fde student who does not make a living
out of his athletics ought to be permitted
to compete for his university. This is the
same position as is taken by DR.. Edgar F.
Smith. chairman of the University of Penn
sylvania athletic committee. and it is held
also by several members of the Brown con-
ference committee. 1t is expected that an
effort will be made to have this version of
eligibility accepted by the eastern univer-
sity athletic world, in spite of the threats
of wholesale disqualification made by the
A. A. L.
According to reports from Cornell. the
long-expected break between Cornell and
Princeton over foot ball dates has come
Princeton has long objected to going to
ithaca every other year for the annual
game, contending that the game is not i'm
portant enough and that the trip is too
a iata hac
to Columbia the Ithacans will have hard
time finding a suitable substitute for
Princeton. Harvard refuses to meet Cor
nell on the gridiron for the same reason
that Princeton advanced. Cornell can get
a game with Michigan, but Cornell objects
to playing in distant Ann Arbor for the
same reason that Princeton and Harvard
refuse to go to Ithaca.
Cornell has just secured two of the most
remarkable schooiboy athletes in the east
in NJ. S. Sheppard and ]. McGuckin. both
of Philadelphia. Sheppard is a half and
mile runner and McGuckin a quarter-mier.
The work of Sheppard is the more remark
able of the two. In fact, the record he
made in one week this spring has never
been duplicated even by college man.
On May Sheppard competed in the inter-
scholastic meet at New Haven. Here he
won the mile and half-mile runs, making
a new record in each event. On the Mon
day following he competed in interscho,as-
tic games at Franklin Field Philadelphia,
where he the half, the mile and two
mile runs. He ran the two miles last and
without pacemaker or any one to worry
him ran the distance in the world record
time of 90. On the Saturday of the same
week he won both the half and the mile at
Ithaca n. Y, and in the mile established
a new world record of 4.2S %. He thus
won seven hard distance races in eight
days. broke four interscholastic and two
world records No wonder college trainers
are after this young man.