New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-29

Yankees have lost none Of that gamehes
and agRressiveness which marked 20 ni'N'
OF their battles last year.
The Boston Turks. az Tim tagged en-
known also as the Helps. Terriers husu
etc. lost every game played with ,he g,
ern cubs-four TO Cincinnati iou' ~,
Louis. four TO Pittsburg ana TWO - 49,,
cago. On top of this brilliant reco'u
woke UP Just In time to smite the 'upe
on Friday Surely. baseball Is an unoei''''
camel
After commenting on the excelle't i".'
rowed by the Princeton crew on May -
when II finished second to Corne" on.
many lengths before Yale. THE faie Da"'
News" says editorially;
,a no,y what of the Yale crew? IN I've
| az we have twice been beaten oecIsi I've.
| ", And while the victor In eacn ~ ,srargtt
- crew which possessed unusuaI tie nars'
! ard which was composed OF seasoiIeu onod
| enu vaIa in neither event came IN soo-
men, az once in truth. a decidedly poor
| tbird 10 a crew whose rowing system no a1l
baen made in a day. we seek Ior al, az 70
cnsa in the fact that we do not preP aae
cuse o II, FOR a short race. Neither does
Prrsyiyania nor Cornell. who have IN
leu always the Poughkeepsie race
| urn then for consolation TO tne laco nc xet
.ha final makeup OF the crew is not yes
decided upon and that the experIehc,v, &C.,
! ~ the last two weeks Will snow up
weaknesses in the men and the sys s,,n
This may be- but something muss ov On,
and that quickly If the afrair at We" io'
don is 10 be a race at all. -. o-or, -.
And vet our confidence IN the crew
mains. though we are IN me WIN III Ubfcb
who desire better evidenGIee-pe aS b on that a
10 hang a hat or two. IL may De VIZ q
reuetition of last falls wonderful exmipllioli
e. IN store for us If so. we may well over
look these recent painful happenings, III
Tho mean time let the process or aduluOii
and subtraction in the personnel OF tne
crew GO merrily on apace. may u 40
quickly and stop soon.
For reasons hard 10 understand. the 1aie
crew appears 10 be in more or less oe-
pooraIized condition There is an old say
ing about the futility of teaching an OLD
ooe new tricks. and It strikes me that II is
late IN the day TO teach the oarsmen new
stroke with the race against Harvard no'
more than four weeks away. WORD came
from New Haven last week that Kennedy
had gone back to paroared gigs and hrst
PRINCIPLES II seems dangerous but II may
he a case where desperate conditions &c
mand desperate remedies.
Columbia is now the only crew, 10 al
appearances, which stands in the way Oh
Cornell and her usual aquatic supremacy
Vale Princeton and Harvard have been
left astern by the eight that Courtney is
building
Some college baseball team will style IT.
self the intercollegiate champion for 1911
but rarely. perhaps. at this season or the
year has such thing as title looked SO
mythical and absurd. After winning nve
straight games. including victories over
Princeton Yale and Dartmouth. Williams
has lost three In a row, 20 Amherst Cor
nell and Dartmouth Yale, after gong
along smoothly for time, has lost four
~ the last FIVE games PLAYED 10 Williams
PENNSYLVANIA. Brown and Cornell. Penn
sylvania. after breaking even with Yale IN
two games fell q victim in quick success
sion 10 Cornell. Brown and Princeton. only
IN defeat the last named again on satur-
dav. Harvards chance Of earning the So
called championship was dinmed by the
decisive defeat al the hands Of the Tigers
two colleges. 70 say nothing Of a beating
by Holy Cross Princeton broke even with
Brown. won and tied a game with Cornell,
was shut out by Williams and lost the
series 10 Pennsylvania, and so II goes a
more hopeless puzzle has rarely been pre-
scented. and even an arbitrary arrangement
Of the teams. as have made on two oc-
casions. seems out Of the question. To
satisfy a number Of requests. and because
such an arrangement was omitted IN this
column a week ago, the following rs ap-
pended Cornell. Princeton, Brown, VIII
Jams. Yale Pennsylvania, Harvard and
Dartmouth Let me confess however, that
put the numbers in a hat and LEI chance
do the rest It's about the only solution
at least for the present
In the forecast OF the intercollegiate
games published in The Tribune on Friday
Cornell was picked 70 win. with 30 points.
while Yale was named 10 finish second,
with 60 points, Pennsylvania third with
Q. and Michigan fourth with Il. II was
not far wrong Cornell won, with 5oi2
points. Yale was second with 2fk; Michi-
gan third, with "A, and Pennsylvania
fourth, with 1928. The Tribune also named
nine Of the thirteen winners.
Before dismissing the track and field
games at Cambridge on Saturday, word
should be said for Craig, the great Splinter
from Michigan, Babcock, the remarkable
pole vaulter Of Columbia Horner, the pow
erful shot putter Of Michigan; Young, the
speedy quarter miller Of Amherst; Berna,
the consistent distance runner OF Cornell,
and others who covered themselves with
athletic glory. IT was cJOd work
HERBERT.