Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22

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The Iowa state championship win be held |
this year at Des Moines, followed by the /
tri-state at Sioux City. week commencing /
August 10. This will AFFORD a circuit Of /
three weeks for tennis players finishing at /
Omaha with the big middle west. There /
were sixty-elght entries in last years mid |
die west and It Is expected there will be
at least 100 entries this year. The COMMITTEES |
has already planned a week Of endless
pleasure in the way Of entertainment from |
a peek into the mysteries OF the Kingdom
of Quivera to auto tours over the city and !
encompassing country, TO a gymkhana,
smoker, hop and banquet. over twelve
states were represented last year and It Is
expected that nearly every town where the
game Is played in the states Of Iowa Kan
sas South Dakota, Colorado and Nebraska
will send teams. VIII NJ Wood is chair
man OF the committee and all communica-
lions relative to the tournament should be
addressed to him, care Omaha Field club.
Omaha will have no trotting races this
year This decision has been reached after
careful canvass of the horse lovers and
merchants for funds. 1T takes money to
| make the mare co. and money had to
| be raised to run these races. Money was
needed to fix up the track and grandstands
! and barns, and the necessary wherewithal
/ could not be gathered together, 30 the
| promoter gave up the scheme as bad
! Job and as something the people Of Omaha
! did not want Tom Dennison, who owned
| the buildings and fences, stood ready at
all times 70 do his share and TO put the old
! buildings in for song but the promoters
could not get enough assistance and have
abandoned the scheme. Dennison has sold
his buildings and fences and grandstands
and the scheme has been dropped
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Omaha tennis men are figuring on getting
| quite busy for the next month and many
| games will be played by these enthusiasts
both in Omaha and in other towns. Many
/ tournaments have been arranged for the
towns Of the state besides the big matches
at Kansas City and Sioux City. Sheldon
has won the city championship at Kansas
City and expects to come to Omaha and the
local men in return are figuring on going to
Kansas City. The Sioux City tournament
will be held August 1S, or one week be-
fore the middle west and many Of the
local players are figuring on going there.
Tennis and golf are getting to be great
games for the players in the way Of tour
naments and more and more are attend
ing the tournaments each year.
In the four leading contests OF skill and
strength--foot ball, base ball, rowing and
track athletics-Harvard and Yale broke
even. Yale triumphed over Harvard on
the gridiron and on the diamond; the Grim
son rose above the Blue on the water and
on the track. Yale freshman squads had
an especially successful season. The fresh
men Of Old Ell vanquished Harvard and
Princeton at foot ball. at base ball, and
their crew won from Harvard and from
Columbia Yale trimmed the Tiger at foot
ball and at track athletics but the Yale
varsity ball team succumbed to Old Mas
sau In track athletics Yale was more &C
oomplished than Princeton, and Pennsyl-
vaniA was too much for Harvard in foot
ball. but the latter was better at base ball.
Pennsylvania excelled Cornell at foot ball,
but gave way to the puissant Ithacans on
the water So 1t went, defeats and counter
defeats leaving no contestant without con-
ISOLATION and adding TO the completely of
the situation in its entirety.
The season was ushered in last fall with
the intercollegiate tennis tournament
Pennsylvania won in both singles and dou-
bles. Dewhurst bearing off the palm in the
singles championship and Dewhurst and
II Register being successful in the doubles.
! The annual golf tournament followed
} quickly on the heels OF the tennis, and on
the links the representatives OF Yale scored
: a double victory. Yale won the team cham
, pionship and with Abbott captured the in
; dividual honors.
5 The college cross country championship,
decided in the fall of the year. found his
tory repeating itself Cornell was again
: supreme, though the individual champion
r ship was won by Hall Of Yale. The greater
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Y A near approach to a monopoly exists In
e this sport also, but Yale has cut In on
: Cornell. Twice year the colleges meet at
e the traps. In the fall intercollegiate shoot
r Pennsylvania was first. with Yale second
, Harvard third and Princeton fourth. In
o the spring intercollegiate shoot Yale was
r first, with Pennsylvania, Princeton and
5 Harvard finishing in the order named.
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n Playing more open and attractive game
= than any Of her rivals except Pennsylvania
n Yale won the foot ball laurels, was scored
d on only by Princeton and weathered the
! arduous season without having her goa
q line crossed. The Blue was not defeated
4 nor was Pennsylvania. Yale won her game.
"a from Princeton by big score, but had g
a hard fight to humble Harvard by one touch
v down. Pennsylvania beat Harvard by
margin OF one touchdown, and the result
Of that game was big surprise. Harvard
e was expected TO win. The Quakers woI
70 their annual game with Cornell. but tina
l. game, too, was a surprise. The Cornelliani
k gave the Red and Blue the hardest sort o
l. fight and after that they had beef
,e beaten decisively by Princeton. The annua
le game between West Point and Annapolis
/ played at PRINCETON instead Of Philadelphia
is resulted in a tie, each side scoring sll
At points. After foot ball came the mude
lie sport OF chess. Harvard was first in tn
A. intercollegiate chess tournament, Yal
N second, Columbia third, Princeton fourth
is In the triangular chess tournament Penn
is sylvania won, with Brown second ana Cor
N nell third.
N In January, Dray Of Yale, made e. neN
~ indoor pole vault record. doing eleven fee
- two and one-half inches. Other happening
- IN January were the defeat OF Dartmout
4 by Yale In a two-mile relay race and tn
,s defeat of Pennsylvania by Columbia in
. two-unile relay race. A little later Yal
beat Cornell and Pennsylvania in a one
On mile relay race, Indoor relay racing was
Is hourishing winter sport. Yale beat HaI
rk ward in a two-mile relay tussle. Brow
is beat Amherst. Cornell beat Princeton, Dart