The sun., 1908-05-17
With THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
R0INGS IN THE FIELD or SPORT
~ EAST AND VEST.
Yaje's intercollegiate Freshman Meet Plan
Fails Through Corncii ana Princeton
In DtfYicuities.-Forecas of the Confer.
ence Games--In intercollegiate Breaks.

ence Games-- intercollegiate breaks.
The Yale project TO run what was called
an unofficial freshman intercollegiate track
and field meet at New Haven did not meet
with the general approval that was OK
pected apparently. The. onlA aoceptances
Of invitations came from Columbia and
Dartmouth and With all due difference To
these institutions their freshman track
teams. even counted In with that OF Yale,
would hardly come In to be considered az
making a meet Of the first quality. The
refusals came from Cornell. Harvard,
Princeton and Pennsylvania. surely to be
considered as universities OF the first rank.
Curiously enough there was general pop
ular approval Of the meet at Princeton
which led many persons to believe that
an acceptance would come from the New
Jersey instlt,hion.
From Cornell. OF course, II was impossible
that an acceptance could come because
the limiting OF trips and expenses for frst
year teams precluded the possibility Of
such action by the Ithacans. As for Penn
sylvania and Harvard It is strange that no
acceptance wps forthcoming. Harvard
doubtless was adhering to the policy OF
limiting schedules Pennsylvania might
well be expected to be willing to send a
team because the Quakers compete most
generously in that sort Of contest. Per-
haps it was by way Of getting even with
Yale for not sending a relay team TO the
Pennsylvania carnival. However. Yale
sent men for the special events. so that
could hardly be the reason.
Without at all d!sparaging the Yale idea.
II does seen To be tho best thing In the end
that this inset wAs not contaminated II
is an idea ciS.1iy against the plan Of those
who framed taa freshman rule, as has been
said, anf fer u.at ,~sson ought not to have
been r,,saa the ba:is ef an athletic meet
Th.ra sr.hsbly Is no other argument
aE.ecst Il thar that one. but that ought to
's c,r~e .iont.
There u tar nos Of break between
- ,,oeton and Cornell because of the dis
ag.~ement over the baseball game that was
to have been played recently in Ithaca
AS the story goes. the Princeton men OBJ
iected that the grounds were too vet for
baseball. although 1000 persons--a big
crowd for Ithaca, too, when the difficulties
OF reaching that university town are con-
sidered-were waiting to see the game.
The Ithacans did not consider the weather
inclement enough to cause q postponement.
Hence the disagreement. However, con-
servatiye followers Of college sport agree
that there is, warning word to be said to
those Cornellians who would rashly advise
breaking of relations with Princeton, and
that relates to their athletic competitions
in the future.
Cornell. although IL oompetes with Penn
sylvania in many forms of athletics. does
not really and truly love the Red and Blue.
There is a strong subcurrent of feeling in
Ithaca that Pennsylvania does not repre-
sent the highest ideals OF amateur sport
There is plenty Of authority for this state
ment Wherefore. although Cornell plays
against the Quakers, 1t is in great measure
because they are rivals of old time and not
because the Comedians want to be tied up
with Pennsylvania and not any other In
stitution. II Cornell breaks of with Prince
ton there will be only Pennsylvania. to fall
back upon OF all the old time rivals of the
Ithacant.
Harvard wanted several seasons ago to
have dual track meet with Cornell, but
now since Harvard has Dartmouth and
Yale there is hardly room for Coach Moak-
leys men on the schedule. As far as Yale
is concerned there is small chance OF an
athletic understanding They do not meet
in rowing OF football. and Yale. with Har-
ward and Princeton, has enough id dual
athletic meets. Columbia is hardly OF Cor
nells scale in athletics, and 80 it may go
through the whole list. Princeton. by
reason of great feelings of friendliness
through old association is entitled to be
considered as Cornells elder brother in ath-
letics. For that reason Princeton ought
TO be kept as an athletic opponent by Cor
nell =
The history Of br axis between colleges
in athletic sports OF one sor5 or anotner
is interesting. These things are taken
very seriously at the time they happen,
but time heals all wounds, even in college
sports. For instance. Harvard and Yale
brok e of relations ia football once. but
later they resumed. and now there are no
greater friends than these two institutions.
There are some breaks that have been
lasting however Yale and Pennsylvania
quit meeting in football because, as 1t was
recorded. a Pennsylvania man hit Yale
man in the shoulder and Princeton and
Pennsylvania ceased to be friends because
of row in Trenton in 1894 year before
the break between Yale and Harvard.
Williams and Dartmouth broke OF rela-
tons about wear ago because basketball
players Of both colleges got into fight
on Inc Williams floor. The Dartmouth
men contended that the williams man was
at fault, and on that score the ethietio
relations were broken of foreyer--or about
year. The New England league OF COL
leges has been constituted that way for
years Never season has passed that one
has not been at. odds with some other New
England college. and their entire history
has been a note Of discord. But sooner or
later they get together and resume friendly
relations
Columbia and New York University
breke of relations following the scrap
over football In 1899. when q New York
University publication declared that tho
university ought not to associate with o
college that did not have on its teams
pure amateurs. However ainicable rela-
tons were eventually re euned. Harvard
and Pennsyivania have broker or that
famous postcard incident being the basis
of all the difficulty but the fact that Har-
ward entered men In the relay aanpes re-
Gently 10 taken TO mean that the Crimson is
willing some dav to return to pleasant
intercourse with the Red and Blue. East
and West there have been college bicksr-
iinss and dieputes, but they Dc net last too
long, and when they are over the collegee