Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

fortunately lacrosse is game which is
not played throughout the intercollegiate
world. With the exception of Harvard.
Cornell. Johns Hopkins and Swarthmore
there are no big institutions which play
it. Eight or ten years ago the inter-
collegiate League was in f1ourish1ns
condition. but the popularity of many
other sports has caused it to be side
tracked.
Under the new athletic regime at
Princeton, which has for a director VIII
liam W. Roper, the Tigers made bold
than they are wont to secure. They
won the championship in wrestling be-
yond dispute. After carefully consider
ing all the claimants to the base ball
championship the writer has concluded
that Princeton is more deserving of this
mythical honor than any other inst1tu-
ton. which Cornell. Amherst and Will
liams following in order named Princeton
is awarded the title not because the tt
gers won more games or lost less than
any of their rivals. but because they
did better in the games which were con-
sidered distinctly championship affairs.
For instance, Princeton defeated Har-
ward in the only game the two teams
played and then won the series from
Yale, although it required three games
to do 1t. In the Tigers other important
game of the year they divided honors
with Pennsylvania and played an extra
inning tie game with Cornell. 1t is true
that Princeton lost to both Williams
and Amherst. but the difference in the
strength of the schedule of the three In
situations practically eliminate the two
New England colleges. Cornell. how
ever, does have a serious argument with
Princeton for the reason that the Tigers
failed to defeat the Ithacans, and the
latter beat Pennsylvania. whose team
broke even with Princeton, by winning
three out Of four games Cornell, how
ever lost the series to Dartmouth, won
and lost with Yale, but did not play Har-
ward whose team also defeated Penn
sylvania The awarding of the base ball
championship to Princeton is purely much
matter of opinion. but on the record Of
the season the Tigers seem to have the
better of the argument. BY winning the
doubles championship in tennis from Yale
the Tigers got an extra half point.
Columbia Won Basket Ball.
Columbia did about as was expected
in basket ball by winning the intercol-
legiate championship. Only twice since
the organizati on of this association has
the CoIumbians lost the title. Both
times the victor was Pennsylvania CO.
lumbia's failure to make good in any Of
the minor sports was somewhat of a
surprise IOT the reason tn0I the New
Workers pay very little attention to the
major sports, and since they dropped foot
ball they have been concentrating on the
minors.
OF the other sports the cricket cham
pionship went to the University Of Penn
sylvania. Last year the Quakers by
winning the track and base ball cham
pionship and figuring prominently in sew
eral other sports divided the athletic
honors of the year with Yale, but this
year their team failed to make good in
the usual manner, and as a result they
are in the same scoring class as the
minor Institutions. This is predica-
ment in which every big university finds
itself at some time or another. Haver-
ford. usual, won the association foot
ball title and Cornell the fencing cham
pion.
In reviewing the college year the most
notable achievements were in the field
and track and field athletics. The 1911
championships at Cambridge were OF a
character never to be forgotten. The
man who won the most fame was j. P
Jones of Cornell. who lowered the worlds
record of i.15 3-5 seconds made by r. p.
Coneff in 1895 to 4.15 2-5. The wonderful
part of Jones' work was that he ran the
second half faster than the first, and had
the race been properly made for him
there is no doubt that he could have
broken the worlds professional as well
as the amateur record. Hardly three
quarters of an hour later Jones won the
half mile in LA As. This he won with
sufficient ease to warrant the prediction
that under the proper condition he can
also make the worlds record for the one
half mile.
Other notable performances at this
meet were the vaulting of II. S. Babcock
of Columbia. who did IL feet Sas inches
just one inch lower than the present
worlds record, and the running of r. C.
Craig. University of Michigan. in the 100
and 30 yard dashes. In the 1oo-yard
Craig broke the tape in 8 As seconds,
equaling the present intercollegiate rec
ord, and i'm the 22O-yard dash he covered
the distance in 81 Is seconds, equaed
his own and the present worlds record.
Not since the days of b. J. Wefers him.
self has the intercollegiate meet seen
such a wonderful sprinter Craig. In
the other event Young of Amherst
equaIed the intercollegiate record of
is A.: seconds for the quarter-mile run.
1t is difficult to pick out any striking
feature of the foot ball season. The
new rules. worked out after a number of
long sessions by the foot ball rules COM
mttee, were on trial during most Of the
season. On account of past experiences
the foot ball rules committee rarely
| judges the work Of new rules by the ex-
perience of a single season. On the
whole the 1910 rules worked out very
acceptably. but the rules committee at its
meeting during the winter declined to
| make any more iduiCdl ehdHSeS uiiui
| they had seen the rules in operation an
/ other season.
The quality of base ball displayed this
year hardly reached the usual standard.
Cottrell of Syracuse, White of Princeton.
| Harry Lee of Columbia and Davis of
| Williams comprised a quartet of unusual
| ly good pitchers. One Of them already
| has joined the major league ranks, and
| if the others can be induced to play pro-
fessional base ball scouts will probably
get them in time. Outside of these four
| pitchers there were few college players
| who displayed any ability out Of the or
| binary.