The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18

is not intended to mark the stats! aboli-
ton Of such sports, will turn The attention
of university men particularly to Gam
bridge during the coming months. At TINS
time IL is more or less evident that Yale,
which was the focus of all anti-intnroolle-
gate sport attack last year, has quietly and
without much q taken a leading place IN
interuniversity action on this matter.
What Yale did last ear Is o likely to
he done by Harvard this winter.
And that is the thorough and exhaustive
examination of the whole field of college
sport, both in it's relations to student life
and to intercollegiate activities, and a
th~oroughgoing housecleaning when that is
finished. At the present time Yale can
say albeit modestly) that in New Haven
the athletic question is practically settled
for the best interests OF all concerned. Not
much has been said about the final arrange
ment of all Yale athletics, and perhaps it is
unnecessary to say much. as the facts
are now widely known. but it is only fair to
say that neither the hysteria that overtook
some institutions affected Yale, north dIsin-
clination TO revise at all that was apparent
in the attitude of some others.
AT New Haven matters had not been
satisfactory, serious abuses had developed,
certain phases of intercollegiate sport had
outgrown proportionate value. and the
direct investigation that ensued, with itS
final decisions, have now brought about,
kCtlClhIlN CDtdhAiBt tiO We y,
n some issues still remain to be decided,
they are not in the way of this general i'm
provement. IL there has been an inclina-
ton here and there at Yale to twist certain
declarations rs to let in doubtful cases-in,
we will say, the eligibility matter-it is to
the credit of the more punctilious members
of the faculty that such action was not
allowed to pass. At Yale the future OF
athletics-always a safe method of letting
OF undergraduate steam assured,
and assured on safe lines"
II seems almost unnecessary to repeat
what was said in this column "a few weeks
ago, and that was that Yale almost always
does the right thing at the right time. The
investigation into athletic abuses at New
Haven was conducted with rare insight.
There was no ~sensationalism and no as
founding disclosures. The case was dag
nosed, the prescription made out, the med
icine administered, and the patient re-
covered.
For the last two months there has been
a story circulating about the Columbia
campus that apparently has only small
basis in fact, but which is none the less
amusing "a those who know Columbia.
II is said that when the football agitation
began last fall DIR. Butler quite agreed
with President Roosevelt that the internal
conditions of football needed change. 1t
Is said that he began to correspond with
President Eliot of Harvard with regard to
the game, and that it was then agreed that
Columbia should abolish football and that
Harvard would follow suit. Columbia thus
would nave the honor OF being a pioneer
in reform n soon would be joined by
all the best element in the university world.
However, after Columbia leaped to the
front row with the abolition proposition
Harvard did not come in. Nor,did any other
institution OF size, and only a few Of those
who did stuck to their proposition.
Cornell has started practice for baske
with seventy men in the first registration.
Cornell has many veterans, no less than
five out of last years squad being back.
They are Capt. Root, '0S; Avery, 90; Good
win, 90; Mantel, 'O7, and Whiting, 90. In
the first days practice there were twelve
complete teams. This is a very good show
ing for Cornell, where basketball has been
getting along rather poorly. The material
some seasons has been excellent, but has
been late in getting together.
The interest in croSs-country running
everywhere in the college world this season
is considered a healthy sign. The develop
ment OF distance running on this side il
going to be a lot more helpful to the young
man in college than constant attention
to sprinting or even distance running on
the track, One Of the excellent things
hat has been don for Columbia is the
stimulation Of interest in this sport, which
in a way replaces thel loss OF football. The
or ~0ss-country candidates at Columbia have
been out in greater numb ers than ever
before, and the quality of the candidates
has been higher than usual.
At Princeton there have been big squads
to compete for the Daily Princetonidn cups
and interest there has been helped by the
fact that the intercollegiate race is TO be
held at Princeton. Pennsylvania with two
good men like Root and Haskins il seeking
two others who will he able TO make the
Pennsylvania team score good for "A high
place. At Yale and Harvard and VI. /. T.
the stimulus ia being felt. At Cornell
they always give a great deal Of attention
to cross-country running. This season,
however, as an extra speciality they have
the run from Dryden TO Ithaca, for the
Auerbach cup, over a twelve mile course.
Strangely enough, IL IL at Cornell alone
this season that there has been any active
complaint that not enough real interest
ia being shown in the work.
There will be no race at Cornell for the
Francis medal for single scullers. There
has not been enough interest in the game
this season 10 warrant holding q race.