The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-02

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ave presented the following dilemma:
When the A. A. U. branded Arthur Duffey
as a rogue through two, nay three, conti-
nents, it either had the evidence to support
such serious defamation or 1t had not. II
it had, then it need only meet Duffey with
the same In court and need not call on US
for ass istance; If it had not, then it is hard
to refrain from an uncomplimentary view
Of the action of the A. A. y. We cannot
bring ourselves to Join in the general hue
and cry against an alumnus Of our own law
school without something more satisfactory
than the A. A. U. has yet presented to the
public.
W are not yet enamored Of the sacro-
sanotity Of the A. A, Y. We are a bit puzzled
to know why %schoolboys and u~ndergradu-
! in the registration lists Of this jockey club
controlling all the human "a oers and won
der why our youth cannot compete in pub
lie in manly sport without pa aging an annual
gentlemen who divide in salaries the pro-
ceeds of a levy imposed to prevent the con-
testant looking askance at the dollars our
careful friends, shrink not from tainting
their purses with. 1t is, In urhumble opin-
ion, a grave pity that the Intercollegiate
Association aver allied itself with the 4, A.
u and we hope some day to see her emanci-
pate herself again and recognize that the
best judges of the ethics of college sport
are the college men and their alumni. This
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The condition OF confusion In sport In
the Western colleges has grown almost
bevond all belief because of the football
agitation. Now that Downer, the graduate
from the University Of Wisconsin and
other men interested in sport have with
drawn the university is in a pitiful state.
The baseball team at Wisconsin practi-
cally does not exist. The schedule is only a
tentative one and the players have not de-
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without a coach. 1t has been announced
that the only indoor track meet schedule
has been called off. The track team having
lost Kraenzlein is almost broken. Thu
detection of Parsons to the Olympic games
has left only Waller of all the old track men
who is worth while ha wing. 1t is unlikely
that there will be an organized track team
at Wisconsin unless some man Of deter
to force the hand of the faculty so that some
definite announcement is made as to the
future of sport.
Until that time confusion will make It
impossible to maintain any regular teams.
At the moment the crew is the one organiza-
ton that is working with a semblance of
regularity. For O'Dea it is the last season
at Wisconsin, as 1t now appears. Later
developments may, however, persuade him
to remain. At any event he will handle the
crew this year
The college athletic trainers are figuring
pretty closely nowadays on what is going
TO happen in the intercollegiate champion
ships. Johnny Mack of Yale is a close
| student Of affairs, and he thinks that Penn
s~ylvania has a fine chance of getting away
with the honors in the meet. Despite all
the calamity talk from the Quaker institu.
ton, which has lost several men who would
have been point winners, Mack points out
that there are still a dozen men left at
do something in the championships. Cart
nell, Amsler, Taylor, Bonsack, Dear. Whit.
ham, Kirkpatrick. Mofitt, Greene and
Mccullough are men whom Mack considers
capable.
Cartmell will be remembered as having
finished second to Schick in both the 100
and 22o-yard vents at the championships
in 1904. Cartmell is a 10 second man for
the hundred and has a mark of 81 2-S sec
onds in the f%urlong. Taylor IL the former
winner of the 44o-yard run and holder of
the present intercollegiate record OF 40 3
seconds. Both he and Cartmell came under
the faculty ban a while age because OF their
studies, but they have since reentered col
lege and will be eligible to compete.
Dear is a capable sprinter-nearly OF the
rank of Cartmell. In fact. when both were
competing it was a toss up, until the inter
collegiate meet, which was the better. Cart
nell broke better on the day with his six
points. Whitman earned a point last year
in the furlong in the Intercollegiate. Bon
sack is a crack schoolboy Splinter, whom
Alvin K%raenzlein once had at Haverford
Grammar School. It's too bad he cant
run Some" is Maok's ironical estimate Of
his abilities,
Kirkpatrick ia a good pole vaulter and
he can be depended upon for points. es-
pecially as Dray of Yale is now out of it.
Amsler. the captain of the Pennsylva MIA
team, won eight points for pennsylvania IN
the hurdles last spring and he has not gone
back any; Mccullough is a h1ot good
who's chief difficulty is likely going to be
TO defeat Marshall Of Yale in that event:
Greene, the football captain. is a good
broad Jumper, who was ineligible for the
intercollegiate championships last year
because Of having competed before enter
ing college for an athletic club, He is
likely to earn some points in the big col
lege meet. II appears that Pennsylvania,
despite apparent Gripping. is going, TO be
As for Yale itself, the prospects are not
bright. Capt. Gates does not think that
there will be much hope for Yale, although
it is not Yale spirit to make such an an
nouncement and then quit, The chances
are that what men Yale has will fight to the
limit for the points that they have a chance
of getting. The absence of Dray and the
practically assured absence OF Parsons Is
going to hurt the team. The injury to
the polevaulter cuts on some almost sure
points in that event.
As for Parsons there are not lacking
many who think that in choosing to go to
Athens instead Of remaining at New Haven
he is making a selfish choice that is bound
to result in the harm of Yale in track ath;
letics. Were it possible that ne could
win a middle distance event against the
class Of men that are going TO represent
other countries in the meet It would be
different" said a graduate. THE fact OF
the matter is that the British middle dis
lance runners who will be there probably
will defeat Parsons easily. In fact the
Yale man has yet to beat Howard Nalen-
tine of the New York A. c.. in a half mile
race, so that there is one man going over
who looks better right now than the au-
burn haired collegian. Aside from that
consideration the first feelings of college
loyalty demand that he should stay at
home. The college athletes first duty Is
to his college. 1t is really a shame to think
of his wasting time that might be devoted
to training for the college meets on a trip
to Athens, where the most that he is likely
to get as things look now is the fun OF gong
and the honor of representing this country
against the world. OF course the last is
a big factor"
1t is considered unlikely that the cap
taincy of the Yale track team will fall to
Parsons in 1907, although he was directly
in line for it, should he adhere to his de-
cision to go. That is, unless he returns
as he says he will, in time to compete IN
both the dual meet with Harvard and, the
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