New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
Victory of Syracuse on HUDSON
Was Most Spectacular.
YALE LEADER IN BASEBALL
Harvard Eleven Stood Out on
Gridiron, with No One 10
Dispute Supremacy.

Active competition in intercollegiate
athletics for 1928 came to an end Win
the deciding OF the intercollegiate law"
tennis and golf championships for'''ie',
ago. the former being won by Har'aIu
and the latter by Yale.
Yale seems to have obtained firm hoiu
on the golf title for this years was the
ninth one in succession that mas Id'I."
TO the New Haven players. Bo'h t"e
team and individual championships were
captured by Yale men.
fnasmuCh as the championship co"'
tests In these two sports overlap 'he
1874 season many prefer TO think that
they should be counted in the results OF
the current wear. But as none OF the men
who are entering college this ran are
eligible for these competitions na'uraIN
the titles fall back into the records OF the
preceding year
Strenuous competition marked the year
none Of which was more spectacular thah
the victory Of Syracuse In the INTERIOR
legiate varsity eight-oared shell race at
Poughkeepsie last June. coming as IT ala
after Cornell had decisively beaten Har-
ward in a preliminary race and following
Coumbia's victory over the Navy ana
Princeton.
Yale's championship in baseball prob
ably was the most Justly earned or all
for. despite its two defeats at the hands
OF Harvard at the flag end OF the season
the Blue showed wonderful all-around
toll tbroncb N
Harvard's football championship last
fall was we'll won, striklngly success
full season eliminating in the Crimsons
20 to victory over Yale Harvard had
team OF well rounded strength, which
worked up TO its big game by SLOW
but steady advance. The contest was
epoch making in that 1t was the first
since 1901 in which Harvard was able to
cross Yale's line for touchdown
By beating two tired and exhausted
crews in the four-mile regatta course at
Poughkeepsie in June Syracuse won the
intercollegiate rowing championship The
year in rowing was full of surprise. much
the same as that which capped the
climax
First came the defeat of Harvard and
PENNSYLVANIA in a three-cornered race by
the Princeton eight. A week later Prince
ton and the Navy fell victims TO Columbia
in the race over the Henley distance on
Lake Carnegie, and the Crimson took an
other hard fall when Harvard was
beaten soundly by Columbia on Lake
Cayuga in a two-mile race on May q.
Yale introduced the English system or
rowing and came down 10 the dual race
with Harvard at New London with fair
hopes Of redeeming the long list OF de-
feats that she had sustained at the hands
of the Crimson. The outcome, however,
was far from pleasing TO Yale men, for
all three Yale crews were badly beaten
by Harvard, which set up a record OF six
consecutive victories in the varsity race.
In the Poughkeepsie regatta Cornell was
second 10 Syracuse. Washington third.
Wisconsin fourth. Columbia fifth and
PENNSYLVANIA sixth. Cornell, however.
won both the freshman and the four
cared races The Harvard freshman crew
beat the Cornell youngsters early in the
season and earned the title Of freshman
champions.
The Yale baseball team for 1913. which
finished the season with a high percent
age Of 81, was probably one OF the best