The Washington herald., 1915-07-08
|SPORT HON0RS
WELL DIVIDED
Yale's Crew Victories Give
Her the First Major Cham
pionship in Two Years.
GLORIES TO HARVARD
Defeat of Princeton and Old Eli in
Both Baseball and Football
Gives Cambridge Honors.

! Cornell's sma shing victory on the Hud-
son last week brought to an end the col
lege athletic year of 19l4-l5 with honors
more evenly distributed than in a decade.
Yale. with a magnificent crew which
boosted victories over Cornell, Pennsyl-
vania, Princeton and Harvard. carried on
premier rowing honors, and for the first
time in two years won championship
in major sports.
Harvard. by defeating Princeton and
Yale in football and baseball. carried of
the bulk of the glory among the big
varsity teams, while Cornell, remarkably
strong in all sports, won the track and
field championship games.
Yale's victory on the water was as
cleancut as possible under the present
system of rowing among the colleges.
Yale did not defeat every crew over a
four-mile route, but it did defeat Har-
ward at four miles. and previously out
rowed Cornell. Pennsylvania and Prince
ton at two miles
The suggestion has been made that
Yale should be called the two mile cham
pion. because to give 1t greater honors
would be equivalent TO naming Ted Mere
dith the two-mile champion because he
won the half-mile championship The
distinction seems to line in the fact that
in running other means are used to de-
termine the titled, while in rowing GUS
tom has grown into tradition. that the
winner of the preliminary races takes
precedence if 1t wins at four miles.
The baseball championship cannot be
definitely fixed. Harvard. with a team
that broke even with Brown, won two
of three from Yale, beat Princeton three
times running, and won twenty-three
games in twenty-eight played may de-
serve the honor: but Brown, Tufts and
West Point had teams OF the first class
with Syracuse not far behind.
Cornelrs triumph in the intercollegiate
track and field games, after defeating
Harvard and Pennsylvania in dual meets,
was so decisive as to leave no doubt
about the overwhelming superiority of
the men from Ithaca. Cornell almost
doubled the score of the runner-up. and
yet won the meet with only one first
place, SO well balanced was the team.
Ted Meredith earned the individual
honors by capturing the quarter and
half-mile runs. In tine national relay car
nival held at Franklin Field in April
Pennsylvania captured the one-mils title,
Princeton the two and Cornell the four.
No less decisive than Cornell's triumph
on track and field was Harvards in foot
ball. The great Crimson machine wound
up its season by defeating Yale by a
score of Sc to 0. the highest score ever
made in Yale-Harvard game.
In the minor sports the titles were well
distributed. Cornell. as usual. had little
or no difficulty in running away from the
field in the cross-country run. while Har-
Yards hockey team was supreme. Yale.
FOR the first time in ten years. won in
basketball with a team that lost only
two games of the ten played in the Inter
collegiate League. Union won the North
eastern intercollegiate title. and on the
games played shares honors with Yale.
Things were badly tangled in the swim
ming world. and after a swim-of to de-
termine the championship. Columbia.
Pennsylvania and Yale were deadlocked
for the honors. Princeton won the water
polo title
Cornells wrestling team. which won in
1914, repeated. while the Navy snatched
the honors in fencing-the first service
team to win in four years Princeton
won the team lawn tennis honors by
defeating Cornell in the final round after
hard fight Princeton also scored in
golf.
The University OF Pennsylvania cap
tured the socker football trophy. the first
time it has ever been won by the Red and
Blue. and Harvard finished second. Yale
scored a clean-cut victory in gymnas sites,
and Harvard won in lacrosse and shoot