The Washington herald., 1915-09-26

NAL opening of Schoellkopf Field. With
the exception that the seating accommo-
dations are limited. Cornelrs new field
is one of the finest in the country. Its
locker rooms. shower baths and other ap-
pointments are of the best. In addition
to the football field which is surround
ed by splendid quarter-mle track with
wo 220 yards straightaway courses. there
is a baseball field with its own amphi-
theater adjoining. The equipment is
completed with what is probably the fin
est baseball cage in the country, big
enough for an entire infield and for foot
ball and track practice on stormy days
Indians and BuckneII Play First
Football.
The Carlisle Indians, even without
Glenn Warner to coach them. opened the
sea son with a 2i-7 victory over Albright
College last week For years the Indians
the season. and in the past they have
frequently played the second Saturday
in September. The red men do not play
very many big games this year. their
contest with Harvard being their only
one with a member of the Big Six"
They ought to have a fair team, provid-
ed it is well coached becau nearly all of
last years veterans are back. The team
is being coached by V. NJ. Kelley.
Texas product
day by the big teams furnish several
contests that are likely to cause trouble.
Princeton. for example. meets Rutgers,
team under the coaching of Foster
Sanford. the old Yale center, has been
working for the last six weeks and ought
to be well advanced. Last year the Ii
gers beat Rutgers, 1910, but not until
after a bad scare. On the same day
the University of Pennsylvaia plays
Franklin and Marshall, a little college.
which whipped the Quakers. 100, last
fall. The Pennsylvanians won't be caught
mapping this time. Dartmouth meets
Maine. Harvard plays Massachusetts A.
C., Cornell lines up against trouble
Virginia.
Several of the Western universities
also get under way on this day. The
University of Illinois. whose team won
the Western championship last year.
plays its first game with the Haskell
Indians; Minnesota plays North Dakota,
while Wisconsin plays Lawrence and
Perdue tackles Wabash These will be
the first games played by the conference
teams. the other members of the big
Nine" getting. under way the follow
Ing week.
Harvard and Yale Win mt Tennis
and Golf.
Harvard and Yale continue to maintain
their supremacy in tennis and golf. r.
Norris Williams. the former national
champion. last week regained the title
in singles which he lost last year to
Church, of Princeton. and paired with
again. won the doubles cham
pionship for Harvard. It is getting to
be about as hard to separate Harvard
from the tennis honors as 1t is to beat
Yale at golf. The golf championship
has now been decided and Yale men won
not only the team. but the individual
Until Yale lost a year
ago to Princeton the Ellis had not been
beaten on the links for nine years.
The college golfers can take little
pride from the fact that a former Yale
champion, Bob Gardner. of Chicago. this
year won the national championship at
Detroit. Gardner. though. was better
known at Yale through his pole vaulting
than his golf. He was twice the inter-
collegiate pole vault champion. and in !
1912 held the world championship at 10
feet 1 inch for period Of two days.
Germany uses almost twice as many
for domestic correspondence
Is any other nation, Japan ranking sec |
Ind and the United States third.