Evening star., 1914-04-12
The Dead Ones.

Our song the song of the dead ones
Who sailed without chart.
Who tried but were always led oacS
Who hung with poor start.
our wishes were always clever.
Our intentions never failed.
But when we came 10 endeager.
Our efforts were always nailed.
This one was the great pinch hitter.
Yet struck out every time.
Then listened to comment bitter
And cursed himself in rhyme:
And this the wonderful tlroweF.
To second he'd line 'em true.
= But he'd have 10 throw much lower
When runner'd be going through
: This was the greatest dropper
:. OF goals in practice game.
But bis angie was never quite proper
When the time TO score il came.
And this the star end-runner
In games when the scrub there,
But he certainly wasn't stunper
When 1t came to play for fair
= So We sing song of the dead ones.
- Too cheap for the public mart
= We tried. but always led ones.
: Who hung TO the tail OF the cart.
: Our thoughts they stili quite clever.
Our intentions never fall.
But we slip over each endeavor.
So the song OF the dead vail.
The announcement recently made that
Edgar Palmer of the class of 1908 has
glven stadium to Princeton in honor
of his father. the late Stephen S.
Palmer. a former Princeton trustee, is
most welcome news. not alone to
Princeton but to Yale and Harvard and
other colleges which journey to Prince
ION for foot ball games in the fall. In
-dlEfduals seem to be particularly gen.
terous toward Princeton in matters con-
snected with outdoor sport. No more at
tractive gift can be imagined than Car
-negie lake. offering as it does facilities
mot only for rowing but for skating
in the winter. and giving most
charming finish to the picturesqueness
of the place. When talking with Dean
McClenafan last fall he expressed the
IYna cha how
stadium. as they had a very desirable
location for it. This structure will De
punt OF concrete. costing approximate
ly SSoo.oe9 and seating some $1,000
people. 1t will be located on Laughlin
Field. between Washington road and
Harrison street. south of Prospect ave-
nue.. 1t will be an open-ended affair.
shaped like the Harvard stadium. and
will be 200 feet in length and $50 feet
in width. with the top row seats sixty
six feet from the ground. 1t will have
an inside quarter-mile track with a
20 straightaway. The statement has
been made that possibly this may solve
some of the difficulties of the Army
Navy people by enabling them to pla v
their game at point little more
equally distant, but it would hardly be
safe to bank on the completion Of any
structure of this Kind in the limited
period between now and fall.
As time goes ON it becomes still more
YEAR is going 60 be one of the most inter
esting ever held. This column has alread y
dwelt somewhat at length upon the quail
ity of milers that Oxford is to send, and
in addition to Penn. Cornell and Chicago
teams. it is now stated that if the Prince
ton milers round into form their team
will be sent down. Something of the abil-
ity of Orange and Black can be gathered
from the fact that Mckenzie last year
was timed in 4.19 rs. that Hayes can get
under 4.2J and that Fitzpatrick can prob
ably get from his half dozen other can
oldateS TWO men who can get under 4.3O
another entry has been added to those
relay races, Harry Hillman, coach of the
track team of Dartmouth. having sent an
entry for the two-mile relay, and il is said
that he may also be able to enter a team
IN the star four-mile event, which is at
tracting so much interest The two best
men that they had on their two-mile team
last year are still in college, Marceau and
Granger, each capable OF doing 1.J7 fol
the half mile. Marceau at the Dartmouth
interclass athletic game March os GOV.
cred the mile in As 10. lowering the old
Dartmouth record from 40 Granger
covered the half in lis so it shows tina,
both men are in excellent shape. Dart.
mouth finished second in this event las,
year. and has some four or five other
good men to draw from this year
Spring practice for the Sridiron pastime
las already begun and begun in more
serious earnest2ess than ever before. II
is manifest that at the big universities
there is going to he less and less closed
season for athletes. Baughton at Har-
Yard, Hiniey at Yale and Penfield at
Princeton are all quite cognizant of the
situation and each realizes that he must
not permit the other to steal a march
IN INN. The men who are being pulled
all sorts of ways. however, are the candi-
lates for the foot ball team. who are
also engaging in other forms of sport
n "a hall Ev71 trsa, ,tr ~
where these men are veterans they don't
worry much about their chances, and
are. perhaps. if the truth must be told
somewhat glad not to have TO bother
with 1t. But where man is working in
one of the Other branches as a sub and
where Ills chances for making a name
for himself on the foot ball team mex,
fall depend upon his beating out other
men for the places. it is he who is worry
ing and wishing he might be in two
places at once. Meantime. all the coaches
10 matter what they may have sale
publicly about it. are straining ever,