The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25

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back OF last years team, which was a pretty
consistent bunch. Jim LAthrop Is supposed
TO be training the team. but he finds very
little time to take way from football. As
all the Harvard men except the footbal play
ers run c~ross-oountry for fun in the fall
they are likely to have q fair team at Prince
ton
The sole remaining institution IL Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology. which last
year finished its TOUR men all in a bunch.
only one outsider separating the quartet.
The Massachusetts, men made a good show
ing. This year their only veteran is the
captain. Galloway, and he rs about the third
best runner in college. according to some Of
the practice races. IL is likely that NJ. l. L.
will be about fourth this season in the team
race.
So little being known about the actual
qualities Of any of the teams a W that OF
Cornell, IL " useless 10 attempt to say what
the probable outcome Of the race will be.
The moet interesting thing to watch will
be the showing Of Columbia and Princeton,
who have been 80 Jealous this year in get
ting up teams. Unfortunately at the time
tins ID being written the race between Column
bia and Princeton has not yet bee held,
50 IL Ia impossible TO draw differences from
the results OF that. The race when run may
well o~ontrovert some Of the things said
above.
Incidentally. in r~emarking about the
activity this year at Columbia some note
should be taken of the recent interdormitory
relay race at the local university. Hitherto
the fall season has been marked by a spo-
radio activity In cross country and An under
GLASS meet In which the sophomore and
freshman class teams were gotten together
80 hastily hat the results OF the meeting
proved next to nothing. This year all this
has been changed. A lot Of valuable work
has been done at Columbia. and more will
be done until the weather absolutely pre-
cludes the possibility of running. The
credit for anything good that may be done
10 TO be divided between Trainer Josh Crooks,
who ooh up a hard job and wen at it with
good spirit. and Capt. John W. Brodix, who
his leadership Of the track and cross country
teams.
The new intercolleg iate swimming league.
which has beer formed after several years
OF fruitless effort to get the men together.
has devised a plan that will result in many
more swimming competitions n thus will
help To boom the sport. According TO an
nouncement, the six colleges in the league,
Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton,
Brown and Columbia. are to meet in a sort
OF round robin series, points being counted
Tor each dual meet and the winner OF the
greater number OF points to he the years
champion. This will mean that each col
lege will have in the year five dualm meets,
which with the added experience that com
petitions give cannot fail TO raise the quality
VI swimming III the colleges.
The University of Pennsylvania r~eioices
in a greater number of students from the
British colonies than any other institution
in the United States, apparently. The
Rugby football team there is made up of
%colonials. mostly Australians. The tennis
player who has done most to bring the Red
and Blue to the front recently il Edward
b. Dewhurst, an ~Antipodean. Now there
Is a sprinter in the university named II. II.
Hunter, from Victoria, who Is credited with
running 100 yards In o as seconds and who
figures in the record books of the Austral-
asian performers with a mark of % feet 2
inches in the running broad jump. If that
is true about his running 100 yards IN better
than evens, he Is going TO be a material
aid to Capt. j. ID. Whitman and N. J. Car
bonell in the intercollegiate championships
and the dual meets next spring. Hunter
IL a small man, witi~R heavy pair of legs,
something like Archie Hahn of the Mil
waukee A. G., but not quite so muscular as
the former Michigan man. Hunter is rather
fat than otherwise, and some persons who
have seen him at the University Of PENN
sylvania say that they do not quite under
how 10 does il.
Capt, Kirk of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania launch franklin says that after all
they won't have a power boat for "A coach
ing launch next spring at the university.
He is too much welded TO steam 10 want
a gas boat. But a student at the university
has promised a new boiler for the launch
n with hat in the Franklin will be able
to do twenty miles 40 bour instead of about
twelve as now. Capt. Kirk says that when
he gets the new boiler in he will be ready
for a brush with anything hat burns either
coal or gasolene that may he on the Hudson
when the crews assemble.
II Michigan IL going TO withdraw from
the athletic control of the conference asso-
citation, as has been declared, it can take
this which follows a. a hail and farewell
greeting fromWisconsin sources: Michigan
is getting chesty. 1t has on several occa-
sions lately shown its apathy TO conference
control and has permitted it to be said that
il wants TO withdraw FROM the Big Nine.
There ought not TO be much time and space
wasted on this proposition. II Michigan
wants TO retire it should not be detained.
II Michigan can stand it the others
ought TO worry along without it's presence,
or advice. The trouble with
Michigan il that il considers itself too big
athletically to ally with smaller institu-
1t has led in athletics and is expand
ing. Its invasion Of the East, even IL against
the weakest Of all the big Eastern teams,
has enlarged its opinion of itself and now
it scorns the base means by which il has
to prominence. A a Western repre-
sentative, Michigan belongs in Western COM
pany, but il it does not like the affliation
it should be granted the privilege To with
II would not take very keen insight
W hONV Nhab ilC llltulkdH DIDDOhlJlOn 10
withdraw has not added anything To the
Of the men trained by Yost,
n Others with their Coworkers
up to now In the Western vineyard.
Amherst is once more eager to get up a
hockey team. and apparently the more be-
cause basketball is not a success at the
Massachusetts, institution. The Amherst
Shdent. the undergraduate publication,
-The long gap between the close of the
season the last Of thism month and the
opening Of the track and baseball seasons
In the spring demands some practical winter
sport. Basketball has proved Sfailure here,
financially at least. in the past and there is
no reason to believe that the case would
be different in the future should the game
be reinstated. To be sure the natatorium
affords advantages in swimming, but the
successor to basketball seems to
be hockey, which is coming more and more
into prominence as a college sport. This
we think a college team is impractical,
but a good foundation can be laid FOR future
development along these lines. The diff
Guilty is manifestly in the lack OF a suitable
rink. The college has long been in need
Of a skating rink and surely either Mt Pratt
Blake Field a tract OF ground could be
which can easily be flooded and will
spoil the field for use in the spring.
Freshman River is a possibility, but not az
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