Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-20

Any man in the corps. and in some
cases the officers was allowed to play
Furiherm<:c little attention was pa ia
10 whether a man was Il professiona !
or an amateur The usual line of
reasoning was that IL he were good
enough to fight for his country N.
was good enough TO take par; in its
athletics. OF all the s. a. T. Z. elevens
in the East pittsburgh was easily the
best. The team coached by Glenn
Warner carried of the championship
insofar as this could be determined.
Certainly no team except the Cleve-
land Naval Reserves disputed the title
OF the pittsburghcrs So fine a col
lection did Pittsburgh have that It was
pretty generally admitted that ehe Fan
thcrs could have gone through the col
nal wear
After football the most important
sport conducted was basketball. Il IS
not technically correct 10 say that a
Championship was actually decided in
this sport because the association de-
cided a, tho beginning OF the season
1919 because some of the colleges had
not gotten theier former PLAYERS back
from the service. However. the regu-
lar intcrco!lngiate schedule was play
cd out with the result that the TN
iyers'ty OF Pennsylvania finished with
the loss Of but a single game. In the
mind OF the general public PennsyI-
vania was considered TO have won the
championship.
Cornell Supreme on Track.
For the nth year in succession Cor
nell won the intercollegiate track
champ. onshiv. The ithacans scored
RACK history because their team was,
unusually small and few men had {,
40 what Cornell usually depended upon
tribute 10 the coaching OF Jack Moak-
ey. PENNSYLVANIA was second and
Michigan close third.
deserves TO rank hrst in baseball. II
The attempt Of four universities to
organic an ;ntercollesiate basebali
would have determined the team en-
Titled to the championship. But this
, nS" c rel through with the result that
season in the old haphazard Ias SIZE J.
living to pick the team entitled to
because rain prevented the piayins
OF so many early games JudeinS
hy the strength shown at the end of
ed first
inie BasebulI Champs
The Ellis won tho triangular cham
plohsnip from both Harvard and Prince
ION; Ana me Tigers in particular had
most OF their important games. Yale
mad trouble getting started and lost
70 several small college mines at the
neg inning Of the season. OF all The
Teams deserving to rank with Yale
nrst consideration should be given
DARTMOUTH. This team won from Har.
yard, Columbia and Pennsylvania. bu;
II was beaten by Princeton, SO IL can
hardly dispute Yale's right to first
In spite OF the fact that the Poush-
kecpsie regatta was not held Their.
w wi,i -. be sL no Quarrel il the Navy 10
me Navy won all it's races al Two
,nlies or less. but il went through a
nard season indicated. Harvard and
Yale ended the season with a four
mile race AT New London and Yale
won by, narrow margin. But both
harvard and Yale were so decisiyelv
oeaten in their carly races that they
at least viii! not dispute the Savv.s
riEnt to be ranked first.
mere vas no particular interest in
the minor sports championships They
were very evenly divided. no college
winning more than one Princeton
carried off the team championship in
goif. though Columbia somewhat
dimmed this honor when Walker. of the
Blue and White. defeated Dean. OF
the Orange and Black. for the ind! vidu.
al title 49,