New-York tribune., 1908-02-10

in Justice to all a statement should be forth
coming.
The announcement of the Harvard oaseoaii
schedule of twenty-seven games ana Oh '"e
usual eirbt-oared race with Cornell in addition
10 the meetings with Annapolis and 1aie does
not point the way a more radical policy OF
restriction as indicated by the expressed opin-
ion of the faculty that the number OF inter-
collegiate contests should be largely reduced
The failure to arrange a football game Win
Princeton on which the undergraduates had set
their hearts indicated. however. that fhers is
cause for feeling OF disquetude among Har-
ward men as to the fate of intercollegiate ath-
letics This disquietude is felt also at Yale.
Harvard being her dearest foe, judged by the
following editorial which appeared recently in
The Yale Daily News:
onno '3fs 3at or the schedule OF Harvards major ath
etic teams should be reduced as to include only
the stormy discussions which had somewhat f aoat-
ed since the weeks 6he END Of the to be
sodifed into an actual ruling would e9e 30 p
athletics from Harvard for good--a contradiction
of their decision OF last year Undoubtedly the
dinlinuton the interest taken in the teaus.it
athietIc OUTPUT Would be seriously Affected with the
certain result that intercollegiate athletics for Har
ward would be doomed. Again, year ago we
Join the Harvard undergraduates in awaiting the
outcome with interest and anxiety
II as it has been said President Eliot should
recommend In his report to the overseers that
the football schedule be limited to two games
Yale and the Carlisle Indians-and II should be
carried out the death knen of the sport would be
sounded at Harvard. There is much to be SAID
in favor OF smaller schedules from a faculty
standpoint at least, and ii would not work any
particular hardship if all the colleges in the East
SoIu in fhe tent a De
footing, as is the case with the conference col
leges in the West 1t would be damaging ex
pertinent however for Harvard TO try alone
The annual bench show of the Westminster
Kennel Club at Madison Square Garden this
week will furnish rare treat to lovers of mans
best and truest four-footed friend. More dogs
viii be benched than ever before, and ii is need
less to say that they will be the best in their
spective breeds that the country affords. The
growing popularity of the Boston terrier is en-
phasized by the fact that less than 227 dogs
OF this breed have been entered, more than
double that of any other breed The bulldogs
and the collies come second, with 125 and 1874
respectively. while next in order come the sport
ing spaniels and the Pomeranians. The last
named. of which 104 dogs are entered nave
jumped into prominence with a rush and are
the most favored among woman fanciers
The bright faced heavy coated little fellows
few and far between not many years
ago, but. like the Boston terrier, they quickly
struck the popular fancy. No less than sixty
distinct breeds will be represented by 2,oos dogs
for a total entry of 3,023
William II. Hotchkiss, president Of the Aneri-
can Automobile Association appeared to strike
a popular chord when he said at the annual
banquet Of the New Jersey Automobile Motor
Club on Thursday night that the time had come
when the roads should be made to fit the traffic
not the traffic to fit the roads, In enlarging on
this Statement he said:
The Romans were the greatest Of road builders.
Little need had they for wider surface or deeper
foundation than would resist the progress of the
legiOnS and their camp equipment; yet vast siege
roads laid deep that fifteen centuries of
neglect have left them practically untouched. In
all times and among all peoples the strength OF
public road, its success means of intercOn-
pend-on its resistance the wear not of the foot
passer, but of the harshest vehicle commonly used
OF behind the times in this. the motor
vehicle age, they-not the tinles-nust be changed; ;
and in changing them right and justice suggest
that the whole people, not a few, bear equally the
burden.
Another week has gone by without any fur
ther developments looking to the abrogation of
luton adopted by the National Association of
Minor League Baseball Clubs 1t looks if
Harry c. Pulliam would have to fight 1t out at
the annual meeting of the National League,
which is near at hand. HERBERT.