The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14

all friendly, it must be said. But on the
whole they had numberless opportunities
to learn and observe much about what must
be acknowledged for the time being a superior
style OF rowing. Whether they will copy it
at all is doubtful. 1t will be considerably
more to their credit in a general way II they
do not.
Taking matters at the start, Harvard
il better on even o for material than
Yale. In addition Harvard had the advan-
age Of being able to a abroad men like
Faulkner and Lunt, promising Oarsmen
from the 90 class boat, who were able to
get in valuable work without its costing them
a year OF eligibility. The rowing critic
Of the London Daily Mail said after seeing
Faulkner in the boat for a while that he
was very near the best man in 1t, and that
Morgan, whose place he was taking, would
a to be an excellent oarsman to be ever
as good as his substitute. 1t IL said that
Faulkner may be stroke Of the eight next
year in place Of Oliver ID. Filley, twice cap
tain and now a graduate.
Efforts are being made by the men in
charge Of the intercollegiate cross country
championships to chan &c the course for this
years race from Travers Island, where it
has been held for three years past, to some
other place. It has been su ggested that
Van Cortlandt Park, the old stamping
ground of the Shamrock Harriers, would
make a better place. James L. Sullivan,
secretary-treasu rer of the Amateur Athletic
Union, who Is the referee Of all big collie
giate athletic meeting s., and who takes a
Keen interest in all such affairs, su ggested
that possibly one of the big country clubs
would like to offer the use Of its grounds
for the race.
Most of them are located in rolling coun-
try, true hill and dale, with ploughed land,
woods and roads about and a piece Of fiat
to finish N that would make IN excellent
course for the race. However, there are
no very serious objections to Travers
Island that might not be overcome bya few
chan ges in the direction of the raceway. It
has been suggested, too, that the country
about Princeton won be better for the
race than Is that about the country home OF
the New York Athletic Club.
The criticisms, direct or implied, OF the
Travers Island course are not relished
by some men in the intercollegiate asso-
citation, who feel that it Is hardly the part
Of courtesy. to say things along that line
after the Kindness Of the athletic club in
giving the athletes q far better place than
was old Morris Park.
Those who have undressed s~hiveringly at
Morris Park and tiptoed across the stone
Tagging to the lawn and then down 10 the
course, waiting, chilled 10 the bone, in front
OF the water jump to set of on what really
was a six mile odd steeplechase, appre
ciate the difference in things at Traver
Island, a truer cross-country course. with
every condition more agreeable to. the
athlete and decidedly greater provision
made for his comfort. There is a strong
feeling against holding the meet at Prince
ton solely for the reason that it is con-
sidered unwise to hold any intercollegiate
oompetition on the grounds OF any one
college where natural conditions serve
those most familiar with them. The same
objection OF course hardly applies to the
track and field meeting in a general way.
II Princeton hould be selected for one
year Cornell would be in the field the next
for the meet, and there would be many a
college c~rOss-country runner who would
pass way on the Narna course who could
hold his own on Travers Island.
Basketball this season In the college s will
be on a much larger basis than before. In
up OF Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Har-
ward, Princeton and Cornell, there is the
New England college league, made up Of
Williams, Dartmouth. Amherst and Wes-
league made up Of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Chicago, Nebraska and Illinois. There also
is a Southern intercollegiate league and q
sort Of mid-Southern league, made up
OF colleges like Sewanee and Vanderbilt.
b colleges in the northern part Of the
State, such az Syracuse, Colgate, Hamilton
and Rochester, while not in a league. play a
great deal together, 10 that in fact the whole
OF the section Just beyond the Mississippi
and back to the Atlantic coast Is made up
into college basketball leagues.
The formation of the Southern leagues
IL new. The history Of this will be told in
the forthcoming Official almanac on basket
ball, which will detail the changes in rules
hat are in order this year, as well as the
makeup of all the leagues throughout the
United States. Another interesting feature
Of the handbook will he the unfolding Of
plans for an annual East against West com
petition for the basketball championship.
As far IA a basketball championship can
be decided, IL will he decided by a series
~ games between the winners 81 the main
intercollegiate sections OF the country.
Pennsylvania, whose team last year won
the intercollegiate championship in the Fast
with the has Of onlv One Fara. h xenarallv