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part Of men who ordinarily are not 10 heavily
Welghted down by money received from
The most direct bl6 6w was at football,
sport which in. most universities pays
shortened so as TO be almost nothing, and
poor teams were met with which were
unlikely 20 attract, and In fact did not at
tract, good crowds. IL took q whole season
Of this eort OF policy to persuade the athletic
tsss they were S.S mot oa H. %aSa Ss
at length, and 80 the football schedule was
restored 70 something worthy of an insti-
tuition Of the size Of Wisconsin. The money
received last fall Is being applied with
sparing hand to the needs Of the other
sports.
Something had to be spent for q coaching
launch for the crew, because otherwise
there wouldn't have been much chance
for Coach Ed Ten Eyck to do anything
Tor his oarsmen. These and other nbso-
supply Of money 90 that debt Of $3.50
remains. The men on the varsity teams
had been promised a long time ago that
they would get varsity sweaters, bought by
the athletic association, but they had to
wait so long that some Of then, gave up
hope. However. 1t Ia expected after the
next football season that athletics at Wis
oonsin will be on a paying basis. 1t has been
hard struggle for the Badgers.
Track captains Of the freshman teams
In the large universities are: Yale. G. M.
Bieistein, a hurdler; Harvard. n Jaguee,
hurdlcr and jumper; Pennsylvania, W. G.
PAUL., distance runner. JaqueS Is from
Volkrnann School. Dwight from Lawrence
vile. and PAUL from Mercersburg.
Plans are being made at Dartmouth to
build q new gymnasium, something that
those who have had to use BisselT Hall
probably will indorse heartily. The present
Dartmouth gymnasium Ia the early '80s
was indeeda fine building. 1t was among
the first tcf college gymnasi,.ms and therefore
suffioed for Dartmouth when there were
about four hundred students or less there
hardly will do nowadays when there are
200, and efforts to keep the attendance
down are being made with little avail.
IL Is figured that SIS, 200 will be needed for
concrete construction worthy OF the uni
versity as 1t now is constituted This will
be raised probably by subscription among
the alumni and undergraduates. At a
recent meeting Of the senior class at Dart
mouth, when about half the members of the
class were present the sum Of $4,000 was
pledged. II the remaining undergraduate
classes and the graduates answer appeals
in proportion, there should be little diffi-
Guilty m raising the sum needed.
The buildingis to be rather large affair
situated nearer the running track and
athletic field than is the present antiauated
structure It is to be something like ss0
feet on it's longest part and about 200 feet
across. The idea Is to build cruciform
building. There will be among notable
things running track of dirt indoors.
Those who know the rigors of a Hanover
winter will appreciate how necessary this
is. May, a track meet in May in Hanover
has been held In snow and wintry weather
The need OF satisfactory indoor training
facilities is everything to the Dartmouth
track men. Also there will be a more salts
factory place provided for the baseball men
than their present cage
Cornell Is looking forward to closer
athletic relations with Harvard. believing
possibly that with no Pennsylvania track
meet and no Princeton footbalIe game
there ought 70 be some regular rival Of
high class, This from the Cornell Duily
Sam; "Harvsrd's men are always well
coined with pleasure by the men Of Cornell,
who realize that there is nowhere a uni
versity with higher ideals In athletics or
one more imbued with the spirit Of genuine
sp1maRshR sps;s,a aasIa1;c. S ate their interool.
the faculty action. opposed strenuouslv
by the undergraduates threatens to curtail
their contests with outside institutions
more, radically In our opinion than is war
ranted by the present condition Of inter
collegiate athletics.
at il our sincere hope that, whatever
may be che outcome Of this agitation, nothing
will occur to curtail in any way the all too
few contests in which we now meet the
Representatives Of Harvard. We might
60 further and state our belief that the most
welcome news In an athletic way that could
be brought to Comedians would be an
announcement that beginning in 1909 our
relations with that institution were to be
strengthened by the addition Of an annual
contest on the gridiron.'
An appeal has been made by graduates
OF Pennsylvania that there should be less
violent, roofing for the baseball team. that
sort Of roofing that ia intended to rattle
visiting players and pitchers. They want
to have less Of IL, for the good reason that
it isn't sportsnanlike. College men are
very apt to forget themselves in the heat
OF a contest and are likely to do things
that do not look well. On one occasion
when Princeton and Pennsylvania met at
baseball in Princeton. one OF the men who
followed the Red and Blue started to do
some very questionable cheering. The
choked him of in hurry. Ordinarily
there isn't much to complain about Of that
sort OF thing at Pennsylvania. Feelings
run high there. but the average visiting
team is fairly treated. For that reason
those who were distressed at an exhibition
that marked one baseball game have made
earnest appeal to have that kind Of roofing
out out.
Wisconsin Ii to have lawn tennis team
this year which will take part in the confer
ence championships. as well az playing dual
matches with Chicago. The college teams
have taken more strongly than ever to lawn
tennis this season, Harvard, Yale, Princeton
Columbia, Cornell, williams, Amherst and
Wesleyan having many dual meets on It
is expected in course Of time that the inter-
collegiate championships win achieve q
higher quality than they now have. The
ranking player gets from the U. 8. N. L.
T. A. depends Of course much upon the
amount Of playing he has done In open
tournaments. However. as the intercol-
legiete Championships come In the fall at
the close OF the open tournament season It is
to be inferred that these players have taken
part In some tournaments.
In the earlier years OF intercollegiate lawn
tennis the champion did not rank high COM
pared with the others. The list 10 this:
1885. w. p Knapp. 10; 1883, g. NJ. Brinley, Il;
1887, p. 8. Sears. u 1883, p. 8. Sears, 9; 1883,
r. p. Huntington Jr., 8; 1890, f. H. Boyey,
s; 1901, +. H. Hovey,4; 1892, w. A. Jarned, o.;
1893, M. g. Chace, 4; 1894, NJ. G. Chace. S:
1895, NJ. @. Chace. 8; 1899, NJ. d. Whitman, 8:
1897, 8. g. Thomson. not In first ten; 1903,
l.. E. Ware, 2; 1899. d. F. Davis, 2; 1900, r. b,
Little, 10; 1901, F. B. Alexander, not In first
ten; 1902. w. J. Clothier, s. Since 1902 the
championship has been won twice by e. 3.
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