Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-13
Favor Soldiers Field.

| Although no action has been taken,
the chances are that this years meet
will be held at Cambridge. Ever since
lit was taken away from New York
LATTER the 1903 games it has alternated
tbetween Harvard and Pennsylvania.
Hast year Pennsylvania held the meet,
so that it is Harvard's turn this spring.
llThere will. of course. be another APP
l.plicant for the honor of entertaining
the visiting athletes. Syracuse, al
though turned down by the associa-
!tion two successive years. has not given
l'up hope of getting the big meet. At
the same time the New Workers have
Harvard. The Crimson has managed
the games splendidly every time they
have been held at Cambridge. the
facilities for entertaining the visiting
athletes are of the best and the crowd
| that would turn out at Boston would
outnumber that at Syracuse three to
one Also there. is still an insur-
mountab1e objection to Syracuse In
that Syracuse does not have a good
l220-yard straightaway course: For
lis necessary for the runners to finish
under the stand. Not many athletes
are willing to risk plunging into
dark passageway, even though IT De
| lighted with electricity.
! Assuming that Harvard will get the
games, the Crimson will have much
better team than last year. In 1917
Harvard should have made better
showing than it did. but for some un-
accountable reason nearly all OF the
Crimson athletes went to pieces. Since
/ that time Harvard has been working
hard with her track athletes. That
satisfactory results have been OBJ
tained was shown by the Crimson's
victory in the intercollegiate cross
country ruin. the first time that Har-
ward ever won this honor. Harvard is
well fortified with sprinters and field
men and to win the cross-country title
runners must be unusually good. Cor
nell promises to be weak in distance
runners this year. and Harvard hopes
to score heavily in them.
Other evidences OF Harvard de
termination to branch out in track
,athletics is shown by her action in
| scheduling a dual meet with Cornell
and dropping Dartmouth; In spite Oh
the fact that Cornell finished far higher
in last years intercollegiate meet. the
crimson believes it has an even chance
in a set of dual games. AT any rate
the meet with Cornell will be an addl-
tional impetus to the Crimson ath-
tletes.
plans TO entertain the Oxford and Cam
bridge athletes. in the hope that an IN
| ternational dual meet between the Iour
colleges can be arranged. president
Baker of the Cambridge University <Naao
| citation recently made a trip to this coun-
try to make the preliminary arrange
Iments Baker is far more enthusiastic
lover the prospects of such a meeuhs
than most Englshmen and thinks that
the combined teams of the English COL
lleges could win even more handily than
they did in the summer OF 1911. with
such men as Mcmillan in the sprints.
Anderson in the hurdles and Jackson and
Baker in distance runs the Englishmen
| he a
iteam. The likelihood Of this meeting Is
sure to be strong factor In maintaining
the interest Of Harvard men in track and
field athletics.
The rowing situation at the University
of PENNSYLVANIA grows more acute every
week The difficulty of getting peace
full solution of the trouble between the
University Athletic Association ana the
College Boat Club. which controls the
tsport at the Quaker institution, has been
made greater by an editorial i'll the Penn
sylvanian. the undergraduate newspaper
demanding that the rowing committee re-
of the fact that his contract still has
| one wear to run The Pennsylvania
argues that Coach Ward does not pos
sess the confidence of the undergraduate
come out for the crew, and that under the
circumstances it would be wise for the
| rowing committee to pay his salary in
advance and secure a new man.
| The action OF the student paper Is re-
scented by the officials of both organiza-
lions because the situation is now in the
hands of a special committee which is
trying to bring about Il compromise. The
rowing committee could not discharge
Ward If ii wished to because there is a
/ contract between the University Athletic
Association and College Boat Club giving
the latter organization. which is made up
of all the oarsmen who have ever sat in
la Pennsylvania varsity shell, the right
to appoint three of the five members Of
the rowing committee and likewise to APP
point the coach. The rowing committee
lappointed by the athletic association is
entirely powerless until a new agreement
is made The chances are that nothing
will be done this year and that Ward will
lremain as coach.