Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-03

course is faster than the New London
stretch would appear to he inti2alC I!
by the fact that the Harvard Cr,,w OF
l""6 was defeated by 'amhridgr by
two lengths in ~ minutes Is seconds.
On September S Of that year. after MAR
N~rd won from Yale in a fCur-milp race
It New London 10y margin Of rICe
seconds in % minutes seconds on
June ~ Of the same year
Another intercollegiate basketball
season has closed with the champions
ship five undetermined. In the cas-;
the race OF the intercollegiate league,
consisting Of six OF thu leading col
leges of the section. ended with Co
lumbia and Cornell tied for frs: place
Each team won eight and lost twu
games. Yale was third with six
games won and four lost. Princeton,
Pennsylvania and Dartmouth followed
in the order named. Because of fac
Clty restrictions no attempt was mad"
to play off the lie for first place, al
though both Cornell and Columbia
players and undergraduates were Gag
er to see, the question of supremacy
settled
In the middle west the conference
race championship was won in impress
sive style by the University of Wis
COnSin five, which played the IL game
schedule without meeting defeat OF
the nine college teams engaged in the
titular tournament Ohio state fin
ished second. Illinois third and Chica-
90 fourth, Northwestern, Minnesota,
Purdue, iowa and Indiana completed
the order of final standing The Wis
consin team apparently outclassed the
other conference fives and the sup
porters Of the badger team would have
been willing to back the combination
against the winner of the Eastern
tournament had such an interSeCtional
contest been possible.
This was particularly true since at
present a tie exists in games played
between the Eastern and Western
championship fives of past years. With
this situation in mind an attempt was
made early last winter by the Eastern
league to arrange for a series between
the winning fives of the two associa-
tions, but the conference directors re-
fused to sanction an International
series just as they refused to permit
Chicago to play Harvard in an inter
sectional football game during the sea.
son of 1914. The record Of these East
and West games shows that a slight
advantage rests with the West at pres.
emit In 1905 the teams of Columbia
and Wisconsin, the title holder of that
year, met in New York, and Columbia
won the game by a close score. At the
close of the 1903 season, Pennsyl
vania, winners of the Eastern league
series, met Chicago, the big nine"
champions, in an intersectional con-
test One game was played in Chicago
and one in Philadelphia, and in each
case the Western five was the victor
by a few points margin after a fast,
brilliant display Of individual and
team basketball.
Leland Stanford University is to
have a new gymnasium, equipped with
mo0ern paraphernalia as soon as sat
isfactory plans can be prepared for
the structure The universities also
announce their determination to sup
port any project Of the Associated Stu
dents looking toward the construction
Of a concrete athletic stadium. This
aid will be given by the trustees in the
form of a loan of the necessary funds.
A revised list of alumni and under
graduates entitled ito wear the Yale
"Y" shows that the aggregate total Of
varsity letter wearers is 1900. OF this
number 1858 are graduates. 90 are
non-graduates and the remaining 55
are er-graduates. The various
groups Of professions followed by
these men are as follows:
Law, 1877; manufacturing, 1863; fl.
nance, 1856; mercantile. 105; engineer
ing, SO; medicine, 60, education, 81;
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