The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-08
CREWS PREPARE
 FUR 0IG SEASON
  Unusual Rivalry Between Har-
 yard and Yale BASEBALL AT COLUMBIA Princeton Puts Football Candidates to Boxing As Means of Reducing Flesh-Pennsylvania PromuI- gates Football Schedule.
BASEBALL AT COLUMBIA
BY MANHATTAN.

New York, March 7.-(special.)- Yale-Harvard race will not be held this year until after the big Poughkeepsie re- gatta. The date fixed for the big dual meet is July l. Yale seems confident of coming into her own again this year. She has a lot of unusually promising material, and the Yale spirit is not in the least daunted by defeat
 Harvard has at least as much confi- dence as has Yale, and even by the use of the differential calculus the mathe- maticians at Cambridge are unable to figure that the Sons of Eli have a look in.
 Only one thing is certain: that is, that when the crews meet on July 1 there will be a race worth watching
 The Columbia varsity crew will go to Annapolis for a race with the Naval academy eight on Saturday, May 8, the same day as the dual track meet between the Midshipmen and the Columbia ath- letes.
 A race with the. Syracuse university eight has practically been arranged to take place at Annapolis a few weeks be- fore the contest with Columbia.
 Coach Charles p. Courtney has read the riot act to the Cornell oarsmen, and as result prospective oarsmen who thought a year or two of experience would let them out of the tedious pre- liminary grind are in a grand scramble to fall in line. Some 15 or more vet erans who imagined they had their posi- tions cinched have failed to report with anything like regularity, but when the veteran coach laid down the law that no matter how long a man had rowed or how indispensable he thought himself to the crew. unless he submitted to strict dis' 4pline.. he would be barred, there has been a change
 With 59 candidates, 30 of them trying for the varsity nine, at work, baseball practice has started at Columbia The battery candidates will be coached by Beckendorff, of the Detroit Americans, and Schultz of Scranton while Head Coach Frank Goodman will take care of the fielders. The game with the Uni versity of Vermont has been postponed from June to and the former date given to Trinity college, and a game has been arranged with the New York Attn letic club, to be played on April 24
 Trainer Val Flood has decided to put the Tiger football asprants of 1909 through a preliminary course of training call was issued for football men to report in the boxing room of the gym nasium and about three-score huskies ap- no nd atr1ns. ,x1aI. l. intended to give the men an opportunity to become fast and agile by boxing.
 He divided the men Into groups and they will report daily at different hours The value of boxing in getting some of the big men to work off superfluous weight and likewise to develop their powers of endurance and activity of movement is considered high by Trainer Flood. It will also afford an opportunity to begin work on the men before spring football practice begins
 Pennsylvania football schedule for next fall has been arranged, with the exception of October 20, and five col leges are being considered for that date Nine games will be played, all at Frank lin Field, with the exception of the Mich igan game. The dates are as follows: September 25, Gettysburg; October g, Amherst; October Is, Brown; October 23, Pennsylvania state; October 30, Indians; November 6, Lafayette; November 13, Michigan at Ann Arbor November 25, Cornell