New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-12
YALE TAP DAY BETTING.
Speculation Rife Over Three
Senior Society Selections.
WAGERS AS ON BIG GAME
Young Hartman Booked for
Scroll and Key, with Walter
Camp, Jr., Football Star.
RESORTS.
NEW YORK.

New Haven Conn, May II SpeciaD.--The
Yale Senior Society elections will be set
tied next week. The annual tap day" eX-
ercises will dispose Of the social ambition
OF Junior class members. The three exclu-
sive senior societies are Skull and Bones,
Scroll and Key and VOLTS Head. Next
Thursday these three societies will each
take in fifteen new members by slapping
each one.
The class o. 70 numbers about four hun
dred members, and it is clear that there
are some one hundred members who reckon
themselves senior society material. Double
the number Of class members who are final
~ chosen are bound 10 be disappointed at
the result OF the selections Hundreds Of
undergraduates are estimating the chances
OF the various members OF the class Of 10.
and friendly bets have been made fully as
extensively as upon an approaching foot
ball game. Excitement over the coming
senior society elections is fully as high as
over the Yale-Harvard football game a
week before the match.
The class OF 10 contains more sons of
prominent American families than any re-
cent class at Yale, and speculat ion as
TO the society which they will finally choose
or whether some Of the prominent candi-
dates will be omitted altogether on cleo
ton day is rife.
There is some interest over the fate OF
William Averill Hartman, son of the late
Edward II. Hartman, but his case has
created little excitement, because it seems
quite generally accepted that he will get
an election to Scroll and Key. Young Har-
riman, who will be tho controller OF one OF
the largest American fortunes when he
leaves college, has been reserved and retir-
ing during his Yale career, as far as his
campus life IS concerned. He failed TO win
an election as the crew manager, being
beaten by Joseph Walker, son Of the Speak
er of the Massachusetts House Of Repre-
sentatives. lie rowed a time on his class
crew when a freshman. but withdrew, and
has since roWed only on scrub crews. He is
the freshman crew coach and went to Eng
land this spring to study English rowing.
With Hartman IT is believed that his
closest Yale friend, Walter Camp, jr., will
go into Keys. Young Camp is a football
star and rowed on his freshman class crew.
He narrowly escaped being elected captain
Of the eleven for next season. lie has by
no means been as prominent during his Yale
career as was his father, the Yale athletic
adviser and director.
Next to Hartman, Vanderbilt Webb has
been most generally discussed. This grand
son Of the Vanderbilt family is the most
prominent in his class of any of the Van
derblts that have come TO Yale -Four OF
the sons of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
William Henry. Cornelius. Alfred and Regi-
nald-were admitted to Yale senior socie-
ties. although the oldest, William. died be-
fore his Yale graduation
Young Webb is close to the lead Of his
class in neutrality-suspicious. the exact
leader. although this fact Is never made
public In general influence he Is a power
ful member Of the class. Most of the states
compiled of the winners OF the senior
Ciety elections assign Webb a place In
Bones. Some Of them concede him the
honor OF being the final, or fifteenth, men,
Der chosen to that society. In general, So
cial achievement or prominence Is regard
ed as a pathway to Scroll and Key, while
eminence In some undergraduate field like
athletics, scholarship or literature is taken
as the qualification for membership to
Bones.
Another prominent candidate for Bones Is
Holiday Philbin, tho football halfback
and oarsman. He Is q son Of the former
New York District Attorney. His brother
Steve was graduated from Yale two years
ago. John Appleton. son of the publisher,
is regarded as a probable member Of Keys.
Jesse Spalding, the football captain, has
been assigned by rather common consent to
Boues. Cole Porter. glee club leader and
soloist. is picked for Keys by many. Scott,
the pitcher; Charlemagne Tower, jr. and
Stanley Wagner are generally accredited
10 Volts Head, as are Bomeisler, the foot