Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
WITHTHE COLLEGE ATHLETES
Doings in the Field Of Sport in East
and West.
G. W. BAIRD LEAVES MICHIGAN
Picking An-Eastern Basket Ball Team
T. q Very Hard Task-COluDlbia
y Appear 10 Ne strong
est Of Fasteners


The selection Of ar all-eastern basket
bail team this season presents greater dit-
neulties probably than ever before be
cause there appears to have been only one
Team which was uniformly good and whose
men we're in condition from one end oil
the season to the other. Columbia won
what is conceded to be the eastern inter-
COLLEGIATE championship by beating all the
colleges which formerly were in the Inter
colieeiate league and losing only one game.
That was with Pennsylvania, the final
game OF the season.
Pennsylvania played a very much IN
and-out game, losing to Yale, which. by
the very same token. also played very un-
evenly. Occasionally Yale had all 1t could
do to make a showing against some minor
college and then suddenly woke up and
played a real fast game against some very
strong team. As far as the question OF
championship goes. almost everyone seems
10 he willing 10 concede that to the Co
lumbia team.
Yale Man Praises Columbia.
That. apparently, is the view OF william
Lush, the former Yale basket bali COACH
who picked the Columbia team as a whole
for his choice Of an all-eastern intercolle-
eiate five. Mr.. Lush's idea was that any
team which matched as well as did Column
HAS team. understanding one another's
STYLES Of play and having all the speed
requisite. would do well enough for an In
tercollegiate five. He believed that no man
could be substituted therein who would
\add anything to the play. and therefore 1t
would be as well to leave any other col
leges out.
That puts aside Keinath and Kiefaber OF
Pennsylvania, who in other seasons nave
been rated as exceptional players, keinath
especially. He apparently was not IN shape
early in the season and in fact never did
get very fit. His reputation to the con-
trary. he did not qualify for a place on
Lush's team and in fact most men who
were selecting an all eastern team would
be apt to leave him off. One difficult, ele-
ment in selecting an all-eastern team this
year is that the New York university team
has strong GLAZING to pre- eninence In the
field Of basket ball. For that matter
swarthmore has as well, because the Penn
sylvauians won all their games and de-
fcated the University of Pennsylvania very
handily in one Of them. As Pennsylvania
was the champion of the previous year,
naturally a victory over the ouakers
amounts TO a rood deal to them. although
III must be confessed that except for the
final game Of the season Pennsylvania did
not play particularly good basket ball.
New York university thinks very we'll of
~Broadhead and Girdansky, the former a
forward and the latter a guard, and in fact
the chances are that on a truly all-eastern
team these players, or one OF them at any
event, should receive a place. Mr.. Lush's
suggestion after putting in the entire CO.
lumbia team-Melitzer aud Kiendl, for
wards; Ryan, center: Kimble and Cerussi,
guards-was that a second team might be
made up of Keinath, Pennsylvania, and
Cushman, Yale. forwards: Van Week of
Yale. center; veeder of Princeton and
Kiefaber of Pennsylvania. guards.
That Severn Regatta.
There seems to be some doubt about
whether the Naval academy authorities
have extended Invitations to some of the
leading rowing universities to compete in
a regatta to be held on the Severn. AL
though it is stated as a fact in several of
the college publications that invitations
have been received, presumably on good
authority. a denial has been forthcoming
from the Naval academy. II is to be pre-
sumed that this denial is merely with the
idea OF making progress a little easier for
the navy folks in the absence of publicity
regarding their movements. The regatta
plan was In a way to combine the two
great events OF the year in college rowing
that is to say, a regatta could be formed
with a representative of the New London
crews and one or more from the Pough-
keepsie contingent to meet the navy, and
something decisive would be the result.
II appeared that Harvard would not be
one OF the crews in this race because of
= disagreement between the Navy and the
Crimson. but Yale might row on the Sew
ern. AS for the others. apparently reliance
was placed on Columbia. Cornell or SYRIA
cusc accepting such an invitation. Wis
consin was probably believed to be out
Of the question, and Pennsylvania might
have too many other engagements. It is
understood. too, that the plan extended
even TO inviting a Pacific coast crew to
take part. but seemingly IL It were i'm
possible for Wisconsin to come on nast
fer such a race It would be unlikely that
a coast crew would make the Journey.
IL the race were to be held rather nearer