The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
COLLEGES HAVE
NEW VIEW POINT
Bury Hatchet in Regard to
Rowing, and Smoke Pipe
Of Peace.
RELATIONS IMPROVE, is
OPINION OF MANHATTAN
Meadowbrook Polo Club to
Have Finest Field in
World.
BY MANHATTAN.


NEW YORK, April 29.-The inter-
collegiate hatchet has given way to the
intercollegiate pipe of peace these days.
and the oarsmen of the leading nniver-
stiles are TO be credited with new point
OF view and willingness TO bury the
tomahawk and pass over the feuds of
last year
Time was when a meeting on the wa
ter between Yale, Pennsyyania and
Cornell In one season was impossible.
The universities OF New London and of
the Poughkeepsie groups stood on their
dignity and refused to make overtures to
each other. No oarsmen realize that the
ideal OF sport is TO meet all corners and
TO row as many races as the law allows,
One OF the feuds passed Into history
was that between Yale and Cornell II
grew out OF the rowing situation to
large extent. and was famed by the par
ticlpants in other sports. Nowadays
as they used to, and the average college
team is eager to meet the best opponent
obtainable and abide by the result.
anteafogare nafops ,snds haye two sources
aance in the matter of eligibility. eThe
first wears out with passing of time,
and the second usually cures itself. AS
a cure,all, the minor sports have been
nvasuable-basketb6ll, swimming. fenc-
Ing and hockey. The smaller teams have
not the old time rivalry and so have
plicated negotiations in major sports
AS result. there Is a gradual unmis-
taxable drawing together in the major
sports and intercollegiate relations are
on better footing than they have been
for years.
West Follows Suit.
The situation in the west is different
from that in the east. where the integ
rity OF the individual Institution has been
so ;ealously maintained and where ath
lot ~
even In the west there has been A
tendency OF late to get together. The
Ann Arbor men are beginning to realize
their isolation and to wonder whether
all.
In the east Yale and Cornell and Yale
and Pennsylvania are again on good
terms. and in each case the minor sports
teams and the oarsmen are TO be cred
tied with the rearranged point of view.
Oarsmen must have races. and they have
ton for their own big event is to he
found in races with outsiders. so-caled.
Princeton deserves credit for bringing
Yale and Cornell together. and the
Yalensians and Pennsylvanians have
made distinct step in advance by ar
ranging for a two-mile race;
The karna. said to be the largest sail
ing yacht, was launched recently. Rob
ert L. Tod owner. Mrs. Tod and their
friends saw the new queen of the seas
take her first dip. When completed the
was designed to give, her owner the
speediest off f-shore yacht in the world,
as we'll as luxurious home
June 30 has been decided upon as the
date of the Harvard Yale boat race at
New London.
BY arrangements with the Massa-
chusetts Institute OF Technology and
of the Naval academy has fixed Sched-
ule which will require four big races TO
be rowed on the successive Saturdays.
Tech Will open April % and the Uni
versiry of PENNSYLVANIA will row May 6.
Columbia will row May IS and Syracuse
will close the season May 20. Few coll
lege crews have ever undertaken such
job.
Worlds Best Polo Field
with the various improvements that
will be made to its grounds, clubhouse
and grandstands the Meadowbrook club
at Meadowbrook l.. l., will have the
finest polo field In America.
The outlay will be 100000 and when
the polo team from England plays here
for the international polo cup II will find
a field that cannot be eXcelled Two
pumps costing $4,000, have been In
stalled to force water TO the fields To
keep them green and moist II dry wealth
er appears. The two grandstands will
accommodate nearly 10000.
II is planned by the American team
III. p. Whitney, j NJ. and Lawrence Wa
terbury and DevereauX Mlburn-to play
three practice games weekly in May.
Tom Longboat. tho famous Indian run
ner wants to have another chance at
the running game in New York. He has
issued a challenge TO run any man in the
His only stipulation Is that the distance
he not less than fifteen miles,