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

Columbia water polo team began to win
intercollegiate championships.
There has been a great deal OF talk re-
Gently about the formation OF an intercol-
legiate swimming association. This has
been tried before with small results. Ac-
cording to the latest announcement, Hat-
ward, Yale, Pennsylvania, Brown, Column
bia and Princeton will be the members Of
this association. Princeton has not been
active in intercollegiate competition thus
far, but the tank in the new gymnasium
will give an opportunity to develop teams.
Swimming is an old established sport at
Pennsylvania, while it has been under way
for several seasons at Brown.
One good thing an intercollegiate asso-
citation might easily be able % do Is to recon-
Gle some Of the minor diff between
the colleges which at this time prevent the
formation Of an adequate schedule Of com
petition.
1t is a source Of great qualification to
most college men that Georgetown and
Wisconsin after all appear almost certain
of having crews at Poughkeep sie next
spring. Tn Wisconsin end Is not 80 sure,
but the definite announcement comes from
Georgetown that there will No a crew. The
alumni have guaranteed this. IL Is per
haps a good omen that the coach of this
years Georgetown crew is the man who
led the 1903 eight OF Georgetown to a SPLEEN
did showing at Poughkeepsie. Russell was
the captain of the crew that finished second
to Cornell. That eight was composed of
young lads, not particularly husky, but
as Dempsey used to say OF them, the gam
est ever" They rowed Wisconsin Inc
Pennsylvania down, although it was a
hard struggle to do 1t.
Those who are familiar with the rowing
situation at Georgetown alone know what
a hard struggle it is to get a crew there at
all. let alone make a clever showing against
the other colleges when it comes to racing
at Poughkeepsie. Lack OF funds for the
purchase of new shells, lack Of funds for
adequate quarters at Poughkee psie and
a general dearth Of material, the whole
hampered by a slightly hostile faculty atti-
tude, are the conditions that have TO be
met merely in forming a crew.
LAST season, for instance, the Georgetown
men would have liked to get up to Pough-
keepsie earlier, but there was not money
enough TO permit of hiring a launch for
coaching purposes and paying hotel bills
and other expenses. Most times the men
who row on the Georgetown crews put up
the money for their own keep in part
sometimes the major part. In spite OF this
there are some men who will say there is no
place where there il so much professional
ism in athletics as at Georgetown.
1he other COlleKeS except w lHCOtlSlD never
are hampered by tho thought of money.
It ia true that Columbia frequently has
finished the season with a deficit, but that
almost alw avs is made up at once when
college opens. The early successes OF
Syracuse have made il easy to interest
graduates in helping out the oarsmen.
Cornell, despite its frequent victories, does
not lavish money on rowing like many OF
the other colleges. Pennsylvania las small
difficulty in raising the needful. But George-
town and Wisconsin are hard pressed right
nj the start. Wisconsin has earned a great
deal Of symp athy in the East, and rightly
so. But the men who row at Wisconsin
seem to be so much bigger and stronger
and older than the Georgetown oarsmen
that there cannot fail to be more ready
sympathy for the smaller men. George
town does not like this sort OF pity, how
ever, for the spirit down there rs mighty
independent. It ia going TO take a very
hard blow to stop the Washingtonians from
continuing their efforts for a crew that can
win on the Hudson.
Harvard, not quite rested froInra move
ment to put football on the map, - tusslng
with the problem Of intercollegiate ath-
letics once more. IL Is given out 20 Do
understood from Cambridge that after
doing and that the abolition of football
and rowing in 1907 is not unlikely. What
the Harvard plan Is and what It Is hoped
can be = ccomplished by these almost weekly
hoI-ecleaningS IL Sllghtly DeyOnd the H.
~telligence Of the undergraduates and even
the graduates Of Harvard.
The example of Yale in dealing with its
athletic problems seems to have been lost
entirely on Harvard. When Yale had some
invest igating to do il was done quietly.
The Yale Alumni Weekly takes the atti-
tnde that all Yale men should be- vitality
interested in whatever Harvard Is planning
to do with its sporting problem. The Yale
publication apparently considers that the
chances for the annual Harvard-Y Yale foot
hall game in 1907 lave been minimized by
the published declaration from Harvard. In
an editorial the New Haven paper has this TO
%The expectation that the Harvard Uni
versity policy in regard to intercollegiate
athletics will not be changed during the cur
rent university year, and that the setting OF
Decemoer. 1 az the date after which no
contracts for such contests ma be arranged