The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
TWO BIG FOOTBALL
 GAMES REMAIN Cornell and Pennsylvania on Thursday, Army and Navy
 on Saturday. THE CR0SS-C0UNTRY MEET For the Intercollegiate Cham pionship- Annual Golf
 Tourney.
THE CR0SS-C0UNTRY MEET

New York, Nov. 24-Thanksgivins week practically ends outdoor sports for the current year, but the next seven days will bring number of events or unusual athletic interest. Two big football games are yet to be played ana both will take place on Franklin neld' Philadelphia. The first, between Cornell ! and Penna, is down for Thursdayi ana * the second, the annual contest between the military and naval academies will take place Saturday. Besides these two games there will be a golf tournament at Lakewood, the intercollegiate cross country championship at Princeton and 4be amateur squash championship at Tuxedo.
 Promise of Stubborn Battle
 Both games promise stubborn play ing for both Cornell and Penna have shown decided improvement since their defeats by the Penna state eleven and the Carlisle Indians respectively Close followers of the game predict success for the Comedians, but previous rec ords are against them. The two uni- versailles have played fifteen games, but onlv once has an Ithaca eleven been able to beat a Philadelphia one x West Point Has Advantage.
 The game on Saturday between the cadets will be the big social affair it always is and there will be the usual large attendance of government ott1- cials. On form the West Pointers seem to have an advantage in the line ana & the back field, but in kicking the An napolis men are the better.
 Intercollegiate Track Meet.
 Eight of the big eastern colleges will send delegates to Princeton on We'd Fl. .nesday to try for the Intercollegiate cross country championship They are 4 Cornell. Columbia, Harvard, Massachu- eetts Institute of Technology, Pennsyl- yania Princeton, Syracuse and Yale. The teams will aggregate seventy in- I dfvfduals. Cornell is the favorite, with Yale and Pennsylvania close second choices. Colpitts of Cornell, Jones oi Pennsylvania Villas of Yale, McGee ot Princeton, Znk of Columbia, Anles of M Massachusetts Tech and Call O Syracuse are all sterling runners anc are expected to be well to the fore Throughout the contest.
 Annual Golf Championship.
 The annual gold championship al akewood Thursday will attract nearly all of the best players of the country rwith Jerome D. Travers whose won aerfu play this season has put him 1T ] b class by himself, standing out as the probable winner.
 Annual "OId Glory"
 At Madison Square Garden, New York, on Monday the annual "Old Slory'' horse sale will be opened z7 IThere will be many fine horses, trot. Eers, pacers and youngsters which have hown speed and have good engage nents throughout the country for next season.
 Butler Gains Decision.
 James Butler, president of the Elm bire City Trotting club, having gained decision from the Court of Appeals which will permit running races on tht Empire City track at Yonkers, vii hortly sell all of his fine stable ot harness horses and go in for the breed |' ng of runners
 Four COrnered Chess Tourney.
 Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Colum it will play their annual four corneret hess tournament during the Christma' olidays. They have selected Decembe Ii. 23 and "A as the dates and thu ooms of the Westside Republican clul d this city as the place for the con est. This will be the sixteenth inter ollogiate tournament. Harvard ha { kon nine times, Columbia five and Yal nce
 McGraw to Manage Giants.
 The baseball gosslps who have bee s redictlng the removal of McGraw fror he leadership of the New York Ma onal League team, have had thei heories shattered by the positive an ouncement by McGraw himself that i'll manage the New Horks next yea ow they are speculating which of tn layers McGraw will shelve, for he ha nnounced that he means to weed ou ome of the older players and injec oung blood into the team.
 Getaway Day.
 Saturday will be getaway day at tn ennings track. after which New Or .ans and the two Californian track i'll monopolize horse racing until nex bring
 NHHs DrDFATs STAMFORD