Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-30

l event ana that Princeton was serious iy to be considered as a future com petitor in this classic.
 Eastern baseball interst was cen tered in the Yale nine a most formid-
 able aggregation of stars. an organi zation which gave promise of exceed l ing the delightful record (to Yale l men) of it's football team and thus marking another notch on the stock 1 of the gun with which the New Haven l athletics contingent is seeking revenge | for past defeats at the hands of many l rivals.
 In track the signs pointed to a great | struggle. Cornell loomed large, owing
 to the continued presence of the coach
 of many winning teams-Jack Moak- l ley--as well the effort being put 1 forward at other large universities,
 Yale and Pennsylvania, notably. to l struggle for long lost honors. All | things considered college sport was to
 complete it's greatest year. It's pro- gress, IS we shall now see, had prom ised much.
 | Football began the academic year in
 blaze of glory. Pittsburgh by reason | of it's list of overwhelming victories and highly consistent play, except in 1 its initial game with the Navy. de- served top ranking. To the writer's mind Pitt had as strong an eleven as he has seen in seventeen years. The material was excellent, and ably hand led by Glenn Warner. Colgate, Yale and Brown stood high in the East but each lasked the consistent form and the all-around game of Pitt In the
 Middle West Ohio State turned the trick and upset all previous records. Northwestern was not far behind. Washington, on the Pacific coast. un- der Dobie, went through another fall
 undefeated. a proud record for it's
 coach who will be at Detroit Universi- ty this fall Pennsylvania went to
 California and on New Years day fell
 before Oregon. Georgetown had par
 ticularly strong eleven in the South.
 In the meantime tennis and golf were occupying collegiate attention.
 doubles in the East, c. Colket Gamer,
 son of the donor of the cup, Harrison
 K. Gamer, won the singles and paired
 with Richard H. Hartie. Jr., splendid
 bootball and baseball player. took the
 doubles. Tn each final event Harvard
 representa- atives only were fia,ists
 The California intercollegiates H. l..
 Hahn, Stanfor, won from E. A. War
 ren, Southern California. Warren
 paired with his classmate E. R. Me
 Cormick won the doubles. These two
 boys toured the East last summer
 playing many tournaments.
 Princeton won the team golf cham
 piouship from Harvard but J. W. Hub
 bell, Harvard. more than made up for this by his thrilling victory over J. W. Corkran, Princeton, for the Individual champion ship. HubbeII was 4 down at the end of the morning play and at the start of the afternoon rond Cork ran took the first two holes. halved the third and fourth and was up and
 12 to go. Hubbel1 took the next five holes and was 1 up at the turn. but was i down to the fourteenth. Bril- liant play gave him the fourteenth. fifteenth and sixteenth and he was dormie ?. Corl1ran rallied and won the seventeenth but lost the title when the eighteenth was haIved.
 The soccor title was tie up until the last games. -Pennsylvania won by virtue of it's victory over Princeton while Harvard and Haverford were had won the Intercollegiate Gun club shoot breaking 429 out of 300 targets. | As was to be expected the Navy foil artists won the intercollegiate fencing | title.
 Hockey was three cornered tie be- tween Princeton Harvard and Yale but Yale won the swimming cham | pionship when it overwhelmed Column i bia ir spite of the mighty Hal Voll- | mer. the human flying fish.
 Yale ended it's indoor season in | blaze of glory and in a manner to | show that it's effort to "come ba ck' | by taking the intercollegiate basket ball championship hands down.
 While there was no championship at stake Cornell was the leading team in the indoor intercollegiate track | meet an event which was especially because of the new feature, a graduate relay race-a new tenden- " fn sport Cornell was also wrest- ling chg mpion.
 But just as plans were being com pleted for the spring work which in spite of the overwhelming interest in football. actually is of more personal and direct athletic interest to the col lege man than the fall sport because so many more are participating in factor. never previously reckon with but nevertheless expected. H1ddenly hit intercollegiate athletics. The declaration of war against Ger n many of the larger Eastern colleges Tn some cases faculties had no need to ba ndon athletics for whole teams -ushed to the colors. For few weeks everyone was stunned by the crisis to 1e met by the nation. Then 2 few in ;titutions announced they would carry nut schedules and in time many of hem did so Rut the big interc llegi- te track ba sebaIl and rowing events were abandoned. The announcement 1 f President Wilson's advising the col eges to continue with normal athletic ctivities aided in stablzing affairs ut what the ultimate effe<t will be on athletics as well as on all sport is somewhat matter of on lecture at this time.
 However. there were intercollegi- te contests at all times Chicago won he intercollegiate track champion hip in the Middle West: Massa chus- tts Institute of Technology the New ,nwland title: Lafayett the Middle tates: and Ohio State the Ohio Con- erence trophy Washington got away rith another Pacific coast rowing tile with the best crew it ever pro- uced and regretted 1t has no regatta 0 row in on the Hudson. Yale won oth a varsity and junior boat race rom Pennsylvania as hostilities were reaking and by incheses neach case, which all rowing was given D in the East, except the intramural ind which failed to hold the students 1terest And Lehfgh won aonther la rosse championship, a new scheme of links, for a few years back Swarth- 1ore and Johns Hopkins stood at the op in this sport
 The re-entry of Michigan into the fiddle Western Conference was the ast important event in Intercollegiate ircles for the past year unless we in- Jude the summer meeting of the Ex-