Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
MADE
FOR PENN GAMES
Oxford, Cambridge and Other
Foreign Colleges May Compete
in Sport Carnivalr
TO USE BATON IN RELAYS

Tentative groups OF the various col
d" 1eges and universities which have
IS. been invited to compete at the twen-
tieth annual relay race carnival of
1.-The University of Pennsylvania were
70 made public at Philadelphia today.
d. Oxford University, England, which
has already notified the Pennsylvania
q authorities of its intention to send a
team to compete in the four-mile
: championship relay event, heads the
r. list in the championship class. Cam
Is bridge University, England, is also
2 included in this grouping, although
the latter institution has not vet de-
g -cided to send team to this country.
1t was also announced that institu-
tons in Germany and Sweden are
contemplating entering teams
The championship events, which
will be open to all colleges and uni
versities in the world. include a one
mile, two-mile and a four-mile
event In the first each man will run
quarter OF mile, in the second a
A. half-mile and in the third a mile.
For the first time in the history OF
D. the games the baton will be used in
the relays here.
The games will be held on April 26
and the entry list will close on
April 1.
r. The first of the big collegiate hockey
- games will be staged Saturday night
. at the st. Nicholas Rink, New York
city, when Princeton will cross sticks
with Yale. A great battle is antici-
pated between the star forwards of
the rival sevens Princeton will play
the great trio, Hobey Baker, Captain
Kuhn and Kilner for the first team,
against Yale's crack players, Heron,
Sweeney and Ordway.
The University of Texas will make
It's srst invasion of the Missouri val
ley during the coming baseball sea-
son, it was announced today. Sched-
:, uled games included: April 81, West
minister College, Fulton, Mo-; April 28-
20, University of Missouri, Columbia,
Mo-; April 80. Wabash College, Craw-
louisville, Ind; May IL, University OF
Illinois, Champaign, I'LL; May 4, Uni
versity of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
Princeton came to the front in the
intercollegiate basketball race last
, week through victories over Yale and
: Pennsylvania. Following their de-
feats at the hands of Columbia and
Cornell it seemed as If the Tigers
I, were out of the running, but their
: powers of recuperation were strong,
and they fairly played rings around
- Yale and Pennsylvania. AS a result
of these two victories the Princeton
ians are at Yale's heels in the league
standing, and threaten to step into
Coiumbia's position at the top of the
league should the Blue and White
falter in it's next game.
gies" tied for first place last week
I in the class A shooting of the Inter-
collegiate Rifle Shooting League. Cor
nell and Washington State are lead
ing class B, while Penn and Illinois
are heading the class c competition.
Yale has accepted Cornelrs invita-
= ton to enter her varsity crew in the
Cayuka lake regatta of May %, ac-
cording to an announcement made
yesterday by Graduate Manager
Kent. The news from New Haven in
sures triangular varsity race on
Cayuga on Cornelrs navy day, as
Princeton announced her acceptance
OF the Cornell invitation some weeks
ago. Yale's rowing program, how
ever has been delayed in formation
pending the conference of the coaches
and rowing committee, it is under
di'stood at Ithaca
Pete Maxfield, the Junior cham
pion shot-putter of Dartmouth Col
lege, will endeavor to be in the best
of condition for his college football
). debut this fall. Maxfield, who was
Zone of the best linemen ever devel-
pped at Mercersburg Academy, will
atbecome a lumberman during the sum-
GaIs 10,
been a figure on the Asbury Park
beach, but the big Bloomfield boy finds
that the water saps his strength. Max
field will seek occupation in one of