Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-26
CRIMSON TO ENTER
RUNNERS IN MEET
Two Relay Teams Will Repre-
sent Harvard in Boston
A. A. Games.
COLLEGE SPORT GOSSIP

Harvard University IS planning to
enter two relay teams IN the Febru-
airy meet Of the Boston 4. A. The
selection OF the short distance relay
is puzzling the Crimson coaches, who
hope, however. to get a quartet of
GLASS in shape before the opening OF
the indoor season. For the long dis
lance event there is an abundance
of material at Cambridge. Bingham
and Boynton of last years team and
Captain Boyd, Blackman and Mac
Ciure, of the cross-country crew are
prominent candidates.
Cornell, Brown and Pennsylvania
VIII hold their annual triangular chess
tournament next week in the rooms of
the Brooklyn Chess Club. Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday have been
set as the days of the tourney. Each
college will be represented by four
players.
f. Austin Teterault son of DR. F.
J, E. Teterault, of Orange. who is at
his home over the holidays, an
nounces that the University of Ottawa
hockey team, of Getaway, Canada,
where he attends school, is on a tour
through the United States. The team
left Canada Tuesday, and is playing
in Cleveland three nights. On Deem
Der 80 the Ottawa lads win perform
at the st. Nicholas Rink, New York
city, against the McGill University
seven, also of Canada. After a trip
to Buffalo the Canadians will return
to New York, where they will face
the Princeton University septet on
January 4
Harvard hockey players left for
Syracuse N. Y, yesterday, for prac-
tise games. They will play Syracuse
Hockey Club on Tuesday and ottawa
University on January 2 and g.
w. Dixon Cunningham. the eigh-
teen year-old boy who has long been
n member of the New York Lawn
Tennis Club. has been elected cap
tain of the Yale varsity lawn tennis
team He has been displaying marked
strength on the indoor courts at New
Haven, and also at squash tennis
and football.
Athletic authorities from every Sec
ton of the United States will gather
at New York next Friday to attend
the eighth annual convention of the
National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
ton, held in the Hotel Astor. Each
athletic district has its representa-
tives, who make reports on the con-
ditions. There will be many authori-
tative addresses on the various col
lego athletic activities.
The third and final round of the
intercollegiate chess tournament
ended in tie between Columbia and
YALE in spite of the fact that Prince
ton gained the lead in Tuesdays
round. This is the second time that
q tie has been recorded. Yale tied
Harvard in 1909 The tournament
gave the following results: Columbia
vs. Princeton /, and Yale 3R VS..
Harvard lh. The final totals are:
Columbia won 61s, lost 51s; Yale
6h and 51s; Princeton 6 and 6, and
Harvard and Z. OF the % tourna-
ments which have been played, Co
Iumbia and Harvard have each won
nine, and Princeton and Yale one
each.
Coach Harry Vail, of Baltimore.
whose summer job is coach of the
Hamilton (Ont.) Boat Club, is the
biggest optimist in the entire attn
letic department of the University of
Wisconsin It's all because his crews
have Just rowed 225 miles on Lake
Mendoza during the fall season and
have broken all records for lateness
of rowing on Lake Mendoza and for
actual mileage covered. The mile
age record has been passed by rs
miles. and the lateness of the former
seasons work has been passed by
seventeen days.