New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-02-01
CONNFNT AITOMOBuNG ( GOLF & BOWLING OTHER SPORTS

,o,,I5 he F2ules we're framed for obedience there
10. and not for evasion at every possible oppoF-
tunity.
Golfers here might do well TO give this subject
some thought and study tbs new code for them
selves, without waiting 10 be brought up Win d
round turn BY a stickIer for the rules. Many a
player permits an opponent TO take an unfair adVan-
+age rather than call attention 70 the breaking or
evasion of rule. This also should h avoided
followed a match not SO long ago n which one ola
fellow haEgled over almost every shot and justineo
himself by repeating time and again. Rules IS
rules" It made his opponent peevish. and he finally
answered, YES. and pigs is pigs It was lesson
however, worth learning.
When Harvard took upon herself TO do little
housecleanin in the line OF intercollegiate sports
Il was maintained that one of the greatest menaces
TO scholastic standards at Cambridge had been the
number Of intercollegiate contests This idea was
carried so far that for time it looked as II Har-
ward would Join with Columbia and put the ban
on all intercollegiate football games and perhaps
go further and include other branches of sport.
That danger over, It was proposed TO prevent al
intercollegiate contests from the close OF the loot
hall season TO the spring recess, thus cutting out
basketball hockey swimming and TO certain ex-
tent indoor athletics. This danger was also passed.
on the understanding that the schedules would ne
cut so far the number of games was concerlleu'
In reviewing the conditions they are to-day me
Harvard Crimson says editorially IN a recent
issue:
Looking back over the number of games in the
schedules of past fifteen years We mo Two uIS
of football and baseball, the two major sports
which have caused the trouble Ine g5'sr ,n.
Der Of games university footo team IT ~
played was thirteen, in 1898. and IN the spring oa
longest on Record containing thirty-three games.
a these figures have gradually flecTedsSSd III
the Climax was reached last year, when there We're
thirteen games on the hockey scnedGIe t0 9S Gd
show some Interesting changes, They have not al
1p on he following basis: schedule Of twenty,
three games Is being PREPARED for the sa Pasep G
drction Of 10 per cent. the basket ball schedule
tea1 n eigbt while the hockey team is scheduled
for ten games, as opposed thirteen last year.
for + 5e c61iR fa1 has not been announced Opin-
LOT ' On TIE number Of games which
be safely sacrificed on this schedule but some
reduction can and should be made here. TWO
schedules which have caused considerable trouble
nave oeen pJaGIcs!tS t 49, 17 tbeir IN
golf team ana the tennis team mus IoId men II:
tercollegtate CHAMPIONSHIPS before college opens IN
formerly. This is a big Improvement and causes
large reduction III the absences from CanlbrlIdse'
ton and what is expected OF them They are prob
ably not curtaing as rapidly as some would nave
at heart. they are doing well TO proceed carefully
A correspondent has called my attention the
fact that Harvard and Cornell have met on the
Eridiron. and 7 glad 70 make -he correction So
far learn, the elevens faced each other In
1898 when Harvard won easily. and again in 1894,
when Cornell made brave fight old Manhattan
Field and Harvard Won Only by OF - 70 L.
In point OF fact, that game. ana now re-
member being somewhat indignant at the way
little Taussg. Of Cornell. was handled by the burly
Emmons, Of Harvard. which called down protest
from many Of the stands. In that same year
Princeton had trouble il defeating Cornell y to 4.
Those who labor under the impression that
weight and strength are necessary before one can
be a successful golfer would 90 well 10 remember
that Fred Mcleod, the national open champion.
weighs only 125 pounds.
Brown and Princeton working hard IN solve
the same problern-the best way OF furthering q
continuous athletic policy. 1t is worth solving.
The official Handicapped or the English Jockey
Club has wholesome respect for Ballot Colin.
Priscillian and other American horses It IS hoped
the critics may come TO feel the same way. The
horses worthy II they 10 their form.
HERBERT