The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-13

knight of the padded init. Thus after a period of almost twenty-five years during which fistiana has witnessed the rise and fall of Sullivan, .Corbett, Fitzsimmons Jefferies, Johnson and Willard, the Marquis of. Queensbury championship is to return to the scene of it's birth.
 The dual regatta between Yale and Columbia eight-oared crews set for New Haven yesterday reviyes old row ing rivalry between these two univer- sfties. Not since 1875 have the var sity crews of these two institutions met in such a contest. In the race of that year Columbia and Yale were represented by six pared shells with out coxswains. The race this season is the first ever rowed~so late in the autumn between the universities and formed an interesting preliminary to the Princeton-Ya1e football, game thfS afternoon A lside1ight is found in the fact that Capt. Seth Low End. stroke of the Yale eight is a, nephew of Seth Low the former president of Columbia University and first mayor. of Greater New York. z.- .
 Racing on the Grand Circuit this season was productive of unusually high class sport. During a period of thirteen weeks. from the opening meet at Cleveland to the closing contests at Lexington Ky, 206 races wereaheld and $427, ,285 paid out in stakes and purses. The T. w. Murphy stables were the biggest money winner, col lecting more than $88,0OO while the same driver lead the list of winning reinsmens scoring tnirty-nine firsts thirty-tWo and a half seconds and sew enteen. and "a half thirds, out of 13O starts. Peter Scott won first place ho Bow gained premier honors in the pacing division.
 Indications point to a possible up- heavaI ifls college athletic stndards dur ing the coming winter. After the close of the present football season there will be a conferenc ebetween the ath- i Ietic authorities of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, with the idea of preparing a new code of eligibility. In the middle west undergraduates have voted by overwhelming majority to. permit the playing of summer baseball by the players of the universities where votes were taken. What influen5e this ex- pression of student sentiment will have on the conference authorities cannot be told at this time but it is evident that there is a strong demand for a, broader and more elastic code for the governing of the undergrad uaIe aCnIeCe-
 Football followers, who labor under the impression that gridiron fsuprem- acy begins and ends i- the east are in Vited to study carefully the records of several off the Pacific Coast elevens. The comparison of the irrespective strength of various teams via the point score system may not be the last word in analysis but for the want of better method it is not without it's va1ue, Washington State College. of Pull man, Wash, defeated the Oregon Az gies 29 to Q, the Oregon Aggies de- : feated the Michigan -Aggies 20 to 0. and the Michigan Aggies defeated Yostss University of Michigan team l 24 to 0, and Michigan lost 5to&Syracuse ' to s14 and Syracuse has won every game played .in, the east except the contest against Princeton which went to the Tigers, 3 to 0, on a field goal kicked by Tibbott.
 Making due allowance for improve ment among the various teams .involv- l ed, as the season progresses. the con i viction still ~c1fngs that the Washing ton State eleven is a football team l worthy of a considerable consideration.