New-York tribune., 1906-11-19
SPORTING COMMENT.
Nezcs and Viezcs ON Current Topics
amateur and Professional.

| Saturday stands out as the feature of the fast
waning outdoor season. as the Horse Show doe:
as the feature of the indoor The meeting be.
| tween the Blue and the Crimson Is invested with
| more Importance. following the brilliant game
| between Yale and Princeton on Saturday, when
| drawn battle resulted. as Yale showed a SUI
periority which, in the event of a victory ovel
| Harvard would make her claim to the college
football championship valid one. The eyes OF
the football world will be on New Haven next
| Saturday and gridiron struggle Is In prospect
| which should have equal in season fraugh'
| with many stirring and hard fought battles
| The thoroughbred racing season in local circles
| came to an end on Thursday, and the last open
| golf tournament of the year In the metropolitan
| district wound up at Lakewood on Saturday
| with q victory for Robert Weir, OF Wilmington
| Del. The outstanding feature OF the week JUST
| closed was the spectacular football game be-
| tween Yale and Princeton, while other interest
| ing happenings were the triumph or the East
| over the West in two football games, Wnen
| PENNSYLVANIA beat Michigan and the Carlisle
| Indians defeated Minnesota. and the clever per-
formances of Sheppard. Hillman. Robertson and
| Bonhag in armory athletic games
| FOOTBALL AND HARVARD.
The expression of opinion on football as played
| this wear by President Eliot of Harvard, after
seeing the Carlisle Indian game, leads TO the
| conclusion that football has been saved to Har-
ward as an intercollegiate sport. Coming just at
| this time when the whole subject or interCoi-
| legiate athletics and particularly football Is on
| trial at Cambridge DR. Eliot was enthusiast
1
callv welcomed by the undergraduates ana
graduates who while they confident that
the president has only the best interests OF the
university al heart, believe also that the ADOLF
ton of football and other intercollegiate Sports
would be a hard blow TO the university Inc
committee appointed 70 investigate the "Iio4o
matter Of intercollegiate athletics has not yes
nrepared It's report but IL has recommended thac
the sports be allowed 10 continue for the colese
wear pending the report. The students pe4les9 20 .
that President Eliot's new view OF 1ootDati wiz
have great weight with the coInhhIttee WiioiI - -
snoI decision IS reached. Dr. Eliot has been an
opponent OF football played In recent ys"ts y .,
and only last November characterIzeu, I, II uSe S
seriously Injurious to rational academic t41e
compared it to bullf1ghtng and cocknghtIS.. 80 T
said that the sources of grave evils We're; nc
jmmoderate desire to win: the frequent
IN masses which make foul play invisible; the
nroft from violation Of rules: the nlsie9ol,.s ,,
assimilation OF the game to ""i %
strategy and It's ethics 49,, 1..u,,,, ~
One of the CHIEF reasons IoI N4o - ~ a
Presluent Eliot to football, he has salu was r,lo
constant violations Of the rules OF Ino s ba
which apparently could not or would not 20
s+nrnad Nv referee or umpire 1t is believed thae
the fact that the rules were r1gldly enIoICeu ~
Indian game and that there was not the s1ie ,.h
est susnicion Of slugging had much 10 DO Win
his change OF view. There was just a RANT sus
picion in what Dr. Eliot said, however 10 IeeIo
TO the opinion that more mod1licaton VIII DC er
manded before the sport Is once again OH q mn
basis at Harvard. After saying that ne enIoyeu
the game and that many objectionable FEATURES
mains further improvement along the same y.
lines" While this may be a note or warnlhs. u
does not necessarily follow that further changes
in the rules will be required, Tor the present,
least some changes may be advisable. but 1t
would be we'll 10 wait until the game as now
played is more thoroughly tried out than has
been possible in one short season
THOROUGHBRED RACING
The fall meeting of the Washington Jockey
Club will be continued this week at Bennins'
and will attract more than passing interest. as
many OF the same horses which raced at Aque-
duct will go TO the post in the various stakes
and overnight races. The season in the metro
poltan district. which ended at Aqueduct on
Saturday, has been remarkable in many re-
spects In spite of the fact that the turf was
wofuIly weak in high class horses. due IN a
large measure 10 death and retirements for one
cause or another interest in the sport, as judged
by attendance figures. reached highwater
mark From what can be learned. the annual
report to the State Racing Commission Will
show that thoroughbred racing has enjoyed it's
most prosperous year. with possibly one excep-
ton. Better Yet. the sport a whole has been
we'll managed and free. to large extent, from
the breath of scandal Some Investigations have
been necessary and some punishment has been
meted out but the whole the racing has been
clean. With no adverse legislation and better
lot of horses, the outlook for 1907 will be par
ticularly bright.
John NJ. p the English jumper which raced
here this year under the tsuise of being Of
the best cross-country horses of Great Britain.
is evidently not highly thought of by crit
les abroad. The following appears in London
publication of recent date:
John NJ. P. and Desert Chief are returning to
England from America, and will go into Sir
Charles Nugent's stable. cable dispatch an
nOuncng their departure states that "a United
States marshal seized John NJ Z. Just as he was
being embarked. on the ground that he had been
imported into America under false valuation
Duty was paid on valuation of t2OO, while the
government claims that the horse is valued at
f1.0OO. A bond was given and the animal was
permitted TO sail" This IS very unintelligible
for how long is IL since John NJ p would have
been valued at f2OO. let alone f1 900
In speaking of the retirement of Pretty Pollv
one of the greatest race mares ever developed in
England any other country London ex-
| change says:
Pretty Polly is 10 run no more. She ran once
too often for her reputation and it Is solely due
| TO the Ascot Cup that other names will be mem
toned in future discussion about the mare Of
| the century. 1t Is a coincidence that her re-
| tirement should SynchrOniZc with the leavetak-
/ ing of her CcnquerOr on that occasion and The
| only animal 10 ever defeat her in EngIand-viz .
Bachelors Button Pretty Polly won twenty
| two races and t3I.295 In stakes. She made her
self not only the idol of every racegocr but the
personal friend of half the racing peoplc Of ths
country. and II will be remembered for many
years with what sorrow and even tears her de-
| feat at Ascot was received by the general pub-
| lie.
Reldame and Artful hold the same forward
| place in this country as Pretty Polly does in
England as the great race mares of the decade.
All three are now in retirement. although thero
| is possibility that Artful NAV be- trained
again.