The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14

Third. Harvard fourth, Columbia fifth.
Fr1nceton last. Jones Of Pennsylvania
Q the individual championship.
IN chess Yale was a laggard. Harvard
anu columbia do most Of the winning In
the four cornered college chess tourney.
OoiuTp0ia won last winter with the fine
record OF 1i11 games won and 4 lost. Har-
vara was second winning 8 games and losing
y PRINCETON third with So victories and
ga defeats. and Yale last with 1 victory and
ii defeats. In the three cornered tourna-
ment pennsylvania and Brown tied for
nrst place, with Cornell a poor third.
10 return to tests Of skill in which the
mental did not overshadow the physical
quite NO much IA in chess, there came an
upset in one OF the leading winter sports.
Neither Harvard nor Yale. between whom
the hockey honors were supposed to lie,
won the championship In the fast and fly
ing. battles on the ice. Princeton's valor
n speed on the steel runners were too
much for the Crimson and the Blue. and
the Tigers for the first time won first place.
Ihey came through the season with a clean
record OF Victories. defeating Harvard.
Yale. DARTMOUTH newcomer and CO.
lumbia. Harvard finished second. Dart
mouth did we'll for the first time out by
finishing third; Yale could not do better
than fourth. and Columbia was last.
In the tussle for the basketball prize
Columbia. the champions of the year he
fore, was forced to accept second place,
finishing just behind Yale. who landed
the championship. Yale won nine games
and lost one: Columbia won eight and lost
two; Pennsylvania, who was third. won
six and lost four: Harvard. who was fourth,
won four and lost six; Princeton, who was
NTH. won two and lost eight, and Cornell,
who was sixth. won one and lost nine IN
the championship series. The strained
relations between Pennsylvania and Har-
ward had Il bearing on the basketball race.
the teams of these two universities not
meeting each other, each forfeiting Ia the
other, Williams College won the New
England basketball championship.
The intercollegiate wrestling tourna-
ment was held in Philadelphia. Four
colleges took part. They were Yale,
Princeton, Pennsylvania and Columbia.
This was another sport in which rivals
had to bow to the ,prowess OF Yale. The
New Haven grapplers won four OF the
seven classes, Columbia won two and Penn
sylvania one. There was nm active season
in swimming in which Yale won a goodly
share OF the events, with the amphibious
representatives of Old Nassau also making
a strong showing. Shortly after the
swimming season was over the fencing
champion ships were held in New York.
As was the case the year before. the
cadets of West Point and Annapolis were
the leaders with the foils. which was not
uniting, inasmuch as they are expected
To be proficient in martial accomplish
ments. The fencing championship passed
from West Point to Annapolis. Cornell
did the best among the college teams en-
tered. fighting out the finals with the mid
shipmen and soldiers. Yale. who pre-
viously had not lone well in fencing, was
a creditable fourth. The other competitors
were Harvard. Princeton. Pennsylvania
and Columbia
In no sport Of the year was there higher
class material than in track and field games.
The material was exceptionally good; the
competitions furnished stirring contests.
The relay carnival in Philadelphia on April
%. promoted by the University Of Penn
sylvani0. was one of the classiest meetings
of the whole season OF college competition.
Nesterners again were prominent in relay
running. Michigan won the four mile
race. the chief event on the card. and Penn
sylvania was second. Chicago won the
one mile race, and again Pennsylvania
was second. Columbia shared in the dis
tribution OF the plums by racing away
with first place in the two mile relay, in
which Dartmouth was second. The one
mile freshman race was won by Pennsyl-
vania. with Princeton second.
There were dual athletic meets in plenty.
Cornell beat Princeton, II points to 80; Har-
ward beat Dartmouth, ~ to -; Pennsyl-
vania took Columbus measure. 93 to "a;
Williams SEM Brown Town to defeat. rs to
5; Annapolis won from Johns Hopkins, 81
to ~; Yale beat Princeton in a close con-
test. SO points to ~; Williams beat Wesleyan,
rs to II; Dartmouth beat Amherst. ~ To ~:
Princeton beat Columbia. ~ to 81; Haver-
lOTu utOl .NtW toIh tTlNtTHtY, " 10 ~.
Annapolis beat Swarthmore. 81 To So;
Lafayet te swamped Bucknell. s5 to 10.
The last dual meet Oh the long pro-
gramme was between Harvard and Yale.
IL was n keen struggle from beginning TO
end. Harvard won from her ancient rival
by a score of 55l points to 4st1. In this
meet Dray Of Yale made "A new worlds
record for the pole vault. lie cleared
II feet 50 inches.
Then came the riches, dish Of the athletic
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the stadium AZ Cambridge. Cornell, the
winner Of the year before. had TO be content
with fourth place. The lthacans were
beaten by Pennsylvania. Michigan and
Yale. The Qnakers won the championship.
having in Cartmell. Haskins and Taylor
three invincible runners. who piled up the
points for them. A big factor in Michigan's
success was Garrels. the weight thrower
and hurdler.
The points were distributed cs follows:
Pennsylvania, SO; Michigan, 20; Yale. %;
Cornell, 10; Princeton. 10; Syracuse, \;
Harvard, :: Swarthmore, o; Dartmouth. 6:
Amherst. &: Williams. ?; Johns Hopkins. /.
Six intercollegiate records were lowered in
these games. Haskins of Pennsylvania made
a new record for the mile OF 4 minutes 20 3-5
seconds. Taylor of Pennsylvania n new
record Of ~ as seconds for the quarter.
Rowe of Michigan a new record OF 0 minutes
"a IS seconds for the two miles. Draw of
Yale a new record of IL feet IiH inches for
NV IONV fAaAA ~ VI -" . n
new record of 80 feet So inches for the shot
put and Mofitt Of Pennsylvania a new rec
ord of 8 feet 81 inches for the high jump.
Little wonder that Pennsylvania, with three
record breakers, carried the Red and Blue
to the front.
The spring intercollegiate shoot was held
in May, and the Yale guns duplicated their
victory Of the fall. Princeton was second,
Harvard third and Pennsylvania fourth.
The two latter reversed the order OF their
finish in the fall test Of Workmanship at
the traps. King of Yale was the high gun
in the spring shoot. Rife shooting was not
neglected. as was shown in the National
Guard tournament, when the Navy team
defeated Columbia. Harvard beat Prince
ton in a spring dual tennis match, and Yale
defeated Harvard and Princeton. Among
the spring meetings also was a game OF
association football between Harvard and
Yale. Ii resulted in n draw.
There was no way OF arriving at an abso-
htely accurate conclusion as TO which col
lege, among the many hat had mines. car
ried off the baseball championship. In the
opinions Of unbiased experts who fol-
flowed the baseball campaign closely. how
eyer the Brown University team deserves