Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10

In some of the sports reviewed here.
notably the major sports. the winning Oh
the championship is pretty mucn mat
ter of Judgment though this year Ihe
colleges to which the honors have Deen
awarded so clearly outclassed their rivals
that these awards cannot be seriously
Questioned Fortunately. all or the miho,
sports are controlled by associations. ana
tfre champions are determined by reg
uiarly played schedule. so that there can
be no appeal from these AWARDS; Inc
same is true in track athietics, Out IN
foot ball. base ball and rowing the eVi-
6ence has to be weighted
Although Yale did not play Pennsylva-
MIA. Dartmouth or Cornell In the east
and none of the western teams, no one
would think of denying the Els the Ioot
ball championship. The record or 1ale
1900 eleven was much too unusual Tor
any one TO think of disputing Yale's SUI
premacy. Yale's team did what only one
other big college team, and that faie
one ever did namely. went through the
season not only undefeated. but also UNI
scored on. This record was further I'M
proved upon since not one or 1ale OPP
ponents was able to get within twenty
yards of the Ellis goal Every other big
team suffered one or more defeats be-
sides being scored on plenufuuy- Har-
ward deserved 10 be ranked next to Yale.
but the placing of the other colleges was
mere guesswork.
Pennsylvania won clean-cut cham
pionship in track athletics. though beat
ing Yale out by only two points TINS
was Pennsylvania first victory In three
wears and the second since 1900. This
years championships were notable be-
cause of the fact that while all the
events were of high standard. there
was but one intercollegiate record made
This new mark was made In the pole
vault Still another unusual feature OF
the meet was that II did not record
single double winner. and not one OF the
1863 champions won his event this year.
III bat
competition between both teams and in
diviGuals was keener this year than for
a long time.
Penn's Champion Nine.
When one considers the character of
ball played the relative number of VIC
tories scored there will be no disposition
to deny the base ball championship to
Pennsylvania. Besides Pennsylvania there
were but four serious rivals for first
honors. These were Yale, Princeton.
Harvard and Cornell. Pennsylvania met
all of them with the exception of Har-
ward, and won each series in impressive
style. The fact mat the Quakers did
not meet the Crimson matters not, since
Princeton and Yale. both defeated by
Pennsylvania. each in turn won from
Harvard. Pennsylvania won both pf
the games played with Yale. the only
game finished with Princeton, the other
being thinning tie. and beat Cornell
two out of three games. Under these
circumstances there is nothing to do but
to award the championship to Pennsyl-
vania-
Although Cornelrs right to the rowing
championship has been disputed in some
quarters. the Ithacans have even better
claim to the aquatic than Pennsylvania
to the diamond championship. There can
be but one other claimant to the rowing
title. This is Harvard. but since Cornell
easily beat Harvard in their two-mile
race on the Charles. II is hard to see
why the Crimson has not been totally
eliminated from consideration. Those
who think Harvard the equal of Cornell
contend that the race of two miles last
NAV was inconclusive and that a four
mile race at the end Of the season might
have resulted differently. But such suy-
Sestions are not worth serious considera-