New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-04
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has come, and there is reason to hope that
the early season predictions that McGra" S
pitching starf would prove the best In years
viii be justified The Giants, thanks to the
good pitching and TO an improvement IN
the batting are within striking distance OF
the top again, only two games ana haIl
| behind Chicago. Good work by the team
in the next two weeks will make up for the
! oisappointments of the early part OF the
! season and make q pennant more OF a
possibility than il seemed likely al one
time to be-
Never before. perhaps, has the intercol-
Iegiate baseball season presented such an
intricate puzzle when II comes to ranking
the various teams The more enthusiastic
followers Of Princeton, Pennsylvania, Will
/ Jams and Fordharn claim the so-called
Championship but rarely has the title been
so clouded and rarely has it been so hard
1 70 reach 2 definite conclusion as to at least
one team The more one tries to reach
/ conclusion by g close study of the results
the more one finds himself in a maze, ana
| il is only in response TO numerous inquiries
that ranking even is attempted 1t comes
down largely TO matter Of personal oplh-
| ion and my opinion. after studying the
scores backward and forward, is given Tor
what il is worth, based partly on results
and partly on the general quality OF me
play throughout the season. On TINS oasis
I would rate the leading teams as follows;
Williams Pennsylvania. Princeton, Ford
ham. Amherst. Brown, Yale. Harvard, Cor
nell and Dartmouth.
AS a matter OF fact, the first four named
are the only ones which played consistently
enough TO be considered as claimants for
the so-called title. and all credit must go
TO those teams for their clever work ana
all around excellence in pitching, batting
| and fielding. Princeton defeated both Yale
and Harvard. and earned, Of course. the
three-cornered championship, but Princeton
was defeated by Pennsylvania in one game
and PLAYED the Quakers TO tie in an
other and inasuluch as Pennsylvania lost
only four games including one to Column
bia and PLAYED high class baseball once
| the regular season opened, II seems only
] fair that the team should be ranked above
7 Princeton williams went through an ex-
| ceptionallv brilliant season, winning twelve
of fourteen games played and defeating
among others. Princeton, Cornell twice
Amherst. Dartmouth and Holy Cross. The
team was beaten by Harvard in the third
| game Of the season by q score Of , to IN
| ten innings and suffered one defeat at the
hands of Amherst Unfortunately, no
| games were played with Pennsylvania OF
| Fordharn. but with Templeton pitching l
would feel disposed TO cast my lot with
| Williams in either case Fordham Won
rwerty-three out of twenty-six games, de-
feating Yale, Princeton and Harvard,
among others. and one is forced to go be-
hind results TO place the team under the
Tigers but again would feel disposed to
favor Princeton If g series Of games were
plaved. unless perchance Mahoney should
pitch all three for Fordham, Wheh the
chances would appear 70 be about even
| Harvard's sweeping triumph on the
Thames on Thursday was one Of system
Making all allowances for the splendid
material with which he had to work. most
of the credit belongs TO Jim Wray- He
went to Harvard in 1906, after a long string
of Vale victories, and in his first year put
crew on the Thames that yielded only
after the most stubborn of fights. Har-
ward won in 1906 lost by a trtting margin
in 1907. and has now won the varsity race
for three years sweeping the river IN
fact in 1903 and this year Moreover, Har-
ward has not lost q freshman race since
Wravs advent and that means much
Yale had a rowing system before Har-
ward and as long as there was no sys-
TEN at all at Cambridge, the one at New
Haven was good enough. to win, except in
years when the Harvard crew was too
strong to be beaten Wray has changed
all that The weaknesses of the Yale sys-
! TEN. which have always been present, stand
! revealed and. unless matters are changed,
it is q Yale victory that will cause sur
prise in the future Harvard had a Won
derfully good crew this year, and 1t is a
thousand pities that it could not meet
Cornell in a four-mile race
The midsummer meeting of the Brighton
Beach Racing Association, which has been
transferred TO the Empire City track, near
Yonkers. will begin tomorrow with the
running of the Brighton Mile and the At
lantic Stakes The programme books of
the meeting were distributed at Sleeps
head Bay on Saturday, and all the stakes
Of the Brighton Beach Racing Association
will be run off The Brighton Handicap, at
one mile and a quarter will be decided on
a meeting between Fitz Herbert and Diam
bala James R Keenes Ballot is not eli
gible but Maskette and Hilarious may
carry the colors of the vice-chairrnan of
the Jockey Club, TO say nothing Of Sweep,
if he comes ont of the Realization to-day
in good condition.
The brilliant performance Of Olambala
in eQualIing the worlds record of 2:o2 As
for one mile and a quarter in beating King
James in the Commonwealth Handicap on
Saturday stamps him a horse of the highest
| class and quality. FitZ Herbert has de-
feated him IN four or five races, one not
longer ago than the Brooklyn Handicap,
but the son of Ornus seems TO have i'm
proved and another meeting with the great
son of Ethelbert IS now anticipated by fol-
( lowers of the sport.
E H and Others-The answer. SO far as
can be given, TO g number Of inquiries on
the standing Of the various college base
ball teams, may be found in the rating
herewith published. HERBERT.
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