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Yale 'Varsity
Crew Defeats
Tigers at Derby
VII Four Eights Engaged
in Regatta Break Keeord
i or Course
DERBY", Conn.. May 3.-All four of
the Yale and Princeton crews which
competed on the Housatonic to-day in
?heir first annual regatta broke the
two-mile record of 10 minutes 58 sec?
onds sot by Harvard last year in
defeating Yale. The Yale 'varsity eight
won from its Tiger rivals to-day by a
length and a third in 10 minutes 16 2-5
F?conds, Princeton pushing across the
line in 10 minutes 20 3-5 seconds.
The Ti&er cubs in the class race,
finishing less than a quarter length
ahead of Y ale, achieved a record of 10
minutes 34 seconds, as against 10 min?
utes 35 seconds for the Eli aggrega?
tion, which had cut down a lead of a
length and a quarter to one of feet
when the race finished.
(loso l?ace Throughout
At no time during the two races
were the rival crews separated by more
than ti length and a half, while the
fierceness of the competition and the
?veiily balanced strength of the eights
contributed materially to the record
smashing in both races. Exceptionally
good river conditions prevailed, there
being a breeze just: strong enough to
count materially in the final time with?
out churning up the river surface, and
a heavy current, swollen by recent
freshets, contributing a record mak?
ing factor.
An ideal spring afternoon tempted
out about 11,000 peuple who fringed the
high shilling hills of the river for the
last half mile, while the first obser?
vation train that ever crept along the
rails alongside the river follows all
three laces of the afternoon.
A burlesque novelty was injected
into the programme by a "Gentlemen's"
and a "Mucker" eight race. The "Gen?
tlemen" wore high beaver hats and
long linen coats and trousers; the
"Muckers" being bedecked in convict
stripe rig. Tho "Gentlemen's" cox?
swain was a cherubic youth, while an
undergraduate, attired as a Zulu
'?ueen, steered the "Muckers" shell.
Rising in their seats the rival oars?
men alternately bowed or shook their
lists at each other, while the Zulu cox?
swain of the ".Muckers" flirted so out?
rageously that the "Gentlemen" eight
steered sadly out of his course. At
the half-mile the eights stopped for re?
freshments, then clawed water fero?
ciously to the finish, although the
"Gentlemen" claimed victory by a
length lead.
The "Muckers," true to their r?le,
have protested on the ground that the
"Gents" partook of cocktails during in?
termission, thereby breaking the train?
ing rules. The "Gentlemen" deny the
charge, and have referred tho protest
to the State Boxing Commission.
The 'varsity race was started at 4:32,
Yalo catching the water first and poking
into the lead at a 35 clip. Princeton
followed at 34, but Yale steadily in?
creased its lead to a half length at the
quarter mile, when it dropped its
stroke to 29. Princeton, rowing a 31,
was still losing ground, retaining this
nace till the mile was reached, and Yale
had increased its lead to a length and
a half.
A Rattle Royal
Here Princeton would not he denied,
and Stroke Paxton gamely led his crew
in a series of three spurts, hitting the
stroke to a 32 pace, which stroke Peters,
of Yale, met and, stroke by stroke,
fought down. Each time he met the
Tiger rally and sent the Yalo boat spin?
ning ahead till it again attained a safe
lead of a length. Three times the
Princeton boat came up within a half
length of the Yale prow, but on the
?bird rally the Eil boat, then less than
a quarter mile from tho finish, forged
ahead with a lead that steadily grew till
it had reached nearly a length and a
third as the judges' flags fell.
From start to finish the Princeton
1922 en w led its Yale class rival boat
?n the freshman race which opened the
matinee. The eights caught the water
at a 35 stroke, Yale dropping to 30 and
Princeton to 32 for most of the race.
They rallied and finished with each
lowing a 35.
The last quarter mile of this event
paw Yale cut down the Princeton lead
from nearly a half length to a matter
of a few feet. Had the race continued
another furlong Princeton would have
been compelled to display unexpected
-tri-'igth or lose its lead.
T'ii" desperate finish found both the
freshman crews rowed to almost ex?
haustion, but they revived almost in?
stantly and lustily cheered each other
before paddling back to their boat
houses. The Yale freshmen were criti?
cised for not beginning their spurt
earlier, their final dash for the finish
displaying remarkable reserve power
? and speed in the boat.
The improvement in form of the
Yale 'varsity over that shown in its
race with the University of Pennsylva?
nia two weeks ago, when it went down
eat by two lengths, has been re?
markable, and Coach Abbott was warm?
ly congratulated to-night by Dr.
Spaeth, the Princeton rowing director.
i loiunihia Oarsmen
Getting in Trim for
Childs Cnp Raee
The Columbia 'varsity crew, going
through hard workouts daily and get?
ting the maximum of practice and
coaching under Coaches Plaisted and
Cianinni, is fast rounding into con?
dition for the coming Childs Cup race
on May 17. The stroke is showing rapid
improvement, both in power and
smoothness, and the speed, on which
Cohimbia is basing its hopes, is clear
evidence.
show that the Blue
::!:<l Whit? cr'".v will enter the race
outweighed by both its op
The average weight of tho
Princeton first boat, which came in
third in the race against Harvard and
Arn a polis ov.-r ?he Severn course re
c-ntly, wa'. .lTl'/i pounds, while the
Pejfn '?amity, as it was boated in the
?. Yale on the Housatonic,
averaged IV) pounds to the man.
The Columbia first ?hell scales much
i.gh'.er than either of these crews, the
, ?raice weight being 1 Ci'.-? pounds.
Statistics on the Columbia -crew are
as follow?:
un. ?Nam". Ait'-. W>l<;M. Hel?ht
Ab?ll ? - 22 !?;.?; I '.'i
WakUck< r . !'? If.'j 6 1 1 i*
i manu ... :0 IS) r, 11
H H .. ... 22 r;:; M
i, H<-?v/l* . VI 17-, &.10
/ ? ? .' tel 21 170 ? ?2
?, Kaacfce - - ZI I ?I r,.io
[.', ? 22 I'.7 !, 10
< -, c?hen .... 20 106 ', 0?%
Although tf.-e iil'je and White is
ghed by both Pson and
?'.'ir.' <-'.'/.'., Advisory Coach Oianinni
OftCh I'red PTaistod expect their
charges to more than make up for tho
loii of weight by superior speed and
form.
I
? - _
The Captains and the Crews Who Raced on Housatonic
Stable Doors in South
Are Now Under Padlock
Trotters Moving North?
ward in Preparation for
Grand Circuit Season
By Frank S. Cooke
Stable doors at the southern train?
ing camps now are padlocked, for the
occupants of the comfojtable box stalls
are on the first leg of the annual mi?
gration to the North, where the money
is. April witnessed the evacuaron of
the winter quarters at Thomasville
and Macon, and the horses now are at
Lexington, where they will stay a few
days, and then when the weather set?
tles they will be shipped to North
Randall, where two months from this
Monday they are to get into action.
First of these to migrate were ?$o
young things owned by John L. Dodge'
of Middletown, N. Y., which wintered
at Thomasville, eleven in number and !
by such sires as Axworthy, Peter Vol?, i
San Francisco, Joe Dodge and Peter
Grimm and an aged pacer by Peter the
Great. At Lexington they joined the
aged horses that had remained there,
so that Mr. Dodge, who trains his own
material, and his assistant, Bob Grady,
are fussing with about twenty head.
\h>n White, who did his off-season
; work at Macon, brought the biggest
I lot to Lexington, there being thirty
two in his stable, including tho great
! est band of two-year-olds it ever has
; been the lot of one man to get ready
j for the races. White conducts a pub
1 lie stable and the youngsters in his
school are owned by John E. Madden,
1 the Pastime Stable, Frank H. Ellis, W.
: S Harlan, David M. Look, Laurel Hall,
C. H. Sears, James Snell, W. G. Pol?
lock, W. H. L. McCourtie and others
veil known to the turf.
In the Pastime stable main string,
which is trained by \V. J. Andrews,
so many years in charge of the llar ri?
man horses, are nine, including four
yearlings by Lee Axworthy. Andrews
is reported to have regained his health
and he has a formidable lot for all
divisions, with Mary Coburn the choice
for the all aged events, Abbie Putney
and First National for the three-year
old stakes and a clever two-y*nr-old
by San Francisco that worked around
j 2:25 at Thomasville.
H. K. Devereux, who is the head of
i the Pastime stable, also has a private
j stable of seven, trained by Harvey
I Shorts, and some of these are to be
raced on the half-mile tracks first.
Guy Lee, who trains for Captain
Henry J. Schlesinger, of Fairland
Farm, brought from Thomasville four.
! three-year-olds and half a dozen a
year younger. Most of these are by
Belwin, and have been miles between j
2:25 and 2:35.
In the interim between, the opening
of the Grand Circuit at North Kandall I
and the racing of the first of the fu
turities, early closing events are of?
fered for two-year-old trotters at five
of the first six meetings. Entries
average more than thirty-eight, Phila?
delphia leading with forty-five, and at
' these five meetings no fewer than six?
ty-seven baby, trotters are engaged.
Looking over the complete roster it
? is found that Peter the Great leads
with sixteen, Dillon Axworthy is rep- j
, resented by six, Etawah, Peter Volo I
and Siliko have four apiece. General
Watts, J. Malcolm Forbes, Ortolan Ax- j
worthy, San Francisco and The Har?
vester three apiece. Binjolla and Bel
win two, while Azoif, Bergen, Czar
Peter, Echo Todd, El Canto, John :
Garner, Judge Maxey, Moko. Nathan
Axworthy, Native King, Senator Hale,'
The Captain, Tramfast and Wilkoe one :
apiece.
There is more interest in the three
year-olds, but in late years there has
been so much speed and such keen
contention in the junior division that
it is a worthy rival for eolt racing
honors. In this particular the light
harness turf is coming to the same
point of view as the running turf,
where the two-year-olds are not to be
outshone by any of the thoroughbreds.
The struggle for leadership generally
is confined to a few colts and to make
the racing of two-year-olds more at?
tractive it is suggested that the big
tracks make up separate races for
colts, fillies and geldings, which would
serve as an incentive to breeders to
have a greater number trained.
Just at this time it is a guess to
pick the best of the three-year-olds
that will figure in the rich futurities.
The call goes to Brusiloff, Princess
Etawah and Periscope on what they
did in their two-year-old form, but, as
usual, there will be one or two of less
early fame that will give them a stiff
argument, just as Hollyrood Bob did
last July.
Entries to the early closing events
indicate a season of high class sport
on the. grand circuit, but all of the
sport will not be there?not by a jug
full. The half-milers are up and doing
and all along the line they are an?
nouncing big lists of entries in their
stellar events, which run from $1,000
to $2,000 in value.
Ohio is setting- the pace, for tho
popularity of Youngstown, Cranwood,
Rockport and Akron is resulting in
lists which indicate that the fields will
be whoppers. Entri?s at many of the
Bay Stale cities arc excellent, and
there is no doubt but that Goshcn will
come through with the biggest lot of
all and stage the best meeting, as is the
habit of that track.
Men who formerly stuck to the big
ovals now are trying out their stuff
on tho half-mile tracks, which have
proved splendid preparatory schools.
As there are about fifteen times as
many half-mile track meetings as there
are mile track affairs it takes a far
greater number of horses, and whence
they come is one of the mysteries of
the sport.
The utility of tho standard bred
horse not fast enough for racing is
going down hill a bit more every year,
delivery cars supplanting him in busi?
ness just as the heavier trucks are
taking the play away from the perch?
erons and the Belgians. However, the
market for hoavy draft horses has
not been hit to any (great extent, for
they are pretty handy at getting in
and out of tight corners and on short
hauls with frequent stops.
At this time of the year somebody
always arises and says: "Let's be
good," meaning to hang out the time
on the front of the stand that is shown
on the dial of the split second watches.
There is a lot of this talk and it is
just as well to get it over with, for
when the half-milers begin racing the
owners and drivers will resume their
regular pilgrimage to the stand and
ask to be given a couple of seconds
if their horses happen to win. Some
day correct time may be given on all
tracks and it will be a line thing for
the sport, and the only way to reach
this millennium is through a secret
service that will throw a scare into
the managers of all of the half-mile
tracks.
Pitcher Best Hitter
Against the Browns
Stanley Coveleskie, pitcher of the
Cleveland Americans, was the best
hitter against the Browns last season,
gaining a mark of .417 in five games.
Covey smashed the old horsehide for
five base blows in twelve times at hat.
Terry Turner came through with a
rating of .112 in six games.
Larry Gardner hit .359 in eighteen
settos Bill Wambsganss, .327 in fif?
teen soirees; Joe Wood, ..'110 in twelve
combats, and Jim Bagby, .308 in eight
sessions.
Caiinefax Seems on Verge !
Of Dethroning Alf. De Oro
When Robert Cannefax won the sec?
ond block of the 150-point three-cush?
ion championship billiard match from
Alfredo De Oro at the Friars' Club
Friday night he gained such a com?
manding lead on the Cuban that it
seems the title is sure to change hands.
The Mound City player ran off his 50
points while the veteran was accumu?
lating 30. He had previously won the
first block Thursday night by the close
score of 50 to 48 in 72 innings of play,
but this left De Oro, who is reputed
to be a good finisher and justly so -
within easy hailing distance. Last
night, however, there was a 20 point
disparity between the two scores, leav?
ing Cannefax a total of 100 to the
champion's 78. This means that De
Oro will have to click off 72 points
in the final and deciding block before
his young riv}?l can accumulate 60.
This appears to he an almost hope?
less handicap if Cannefax continues in
his present form. His playing has been
consistent all along much more con?
sistent, in fact, than De Oro's. The
latter has the highest run of the block*
that have been played off. but on tht
other hand he went the last nine in
I a point.
Cannefax only had high runs of 4 in
I the first b'ock and 0 in the second, hut
: up until the twenty-fifth inning in the
- latter block he averaged one point an
inning. He had made two in the forty
sixth inning, when he fouled previous
to his third shot. Referee Cutler
called the foul, but allowed the shot. !
De Oro protested vigorously and in?
sisted that the balls be placed in their |
former position, offering to wager ;
$1,000 that he was right in his stand.
The referee, however, refused to
change his ruling, and whether this net- |
tied the veteran to the extent that it i
had any effect on his play is a ques- ;
[ tion. The incident occurred in the be-:
? ginning of the forty-sixth inning, and :
it is a fact that he only scored once
thereafter in the remaining eleven in?
nings of the block.
Score by innings :
Cannefax
0 0 '.' 'I :t 2 2 0 12 0 10 0 3 10)10 I)
O 0 0 0 " I) 2 n O 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
21U 0 I 0 0(11 111 I 1?Total, GO
points in ?7 Innings.
j?. dro?
ll 0 0 (I 1 1 1 0 S 0 0 (I 1 0 0 1 0 n ] 0 0
0006000 4. 100 2 001 I ') 0 3 0 0
00 0- 0100000 U 000 '-?Total, 30
i points In 56 Inning?
ecords Fall in Games
in
3
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By A. C. Cavagnaro
Poly Prep Schooi played host to the
ithletes of the schools of Brooklyn
ind Long island in the annual track
mil field championships for these dis
ricts on its field yesterday, but when
lie final event was completed it proved, ?
n reality, a field day for the Poly '
rack team. Besides swamping its rivals
n the point competition with a .'".ally
if 68 points, the Dyker Heights boys j
iCCOtinteTl for seven of the nine new :
naet records that were established. ?
Vil the old standards in the six field ?
vents were broken.
P. W. Francis, of Poly Prep, and
Ubert Harms, from Flushing High :
Ichool, earned the 'Highest honors in |
lie record breaking feats. After skim
ning over the 120-yard high hurdles
n 17 4-5 seconds, lowering the old fig
ires of 18 3-5 seconds, Francis added
o his credit the winning of the run
ling high jump, with a leap of 5 feet
inches. This added ?in inch to the
? Id mark.
Harms's effort in the polo vault, in
vhich he scaled tho cross piece at a
leight of 11 feet 1% inches, was com-j
nendable l'or a schoolboy. Tho old
ecord was !' feet C> inches, and Leem
ng Jelliffe, Poly, who was second, also
'eat tiiese figures by six inches.
The summary follows:
TRACK EVENTS
120-yard high hurdles Won by P. W.
'rancis, Poly; H. Appell, Flushing, second;
loopersmith, Boys' High, finished third,
ui wo sdisiiualifled. Time, 0:17 4-6.
100-yard dash (senior) -"Won by ?. Wcl
Iger, .Manual Training; H.utson, Boys'
[igh, second; F Lovejoy, Port Washington,
lord, 11. Jliuadus, Jamaica, fourth. Time,
111.
100-yard dash (Junior)?Won by M.
oomlis, Manual; Edwards, Erasmus, pre?
nd: E. Horowitz, .Manual, third; Warwick,
Iryant, fourth Time, 0:11 1-5.
One-mile run?Won by M. Rick, Eras
ius: 11. P. A. Kirby, PoiTy, second; A.
racy, flushing, third; snow, Erasmus,
mrth. Time, 1:57 :? -5
220-yard low hurdle -Won by Leeming
elliffe; Polj . ?1. A| ;?? 1!, Flushing, s> eond ;
'. W. Francis, Poly, third; W. Roach,
iryant, fourth. Time, 0 -'.< 1 -5.
yard da.sll Won by lt. Weis Igi -.
(anual; F. Leahey, Flushing, second; Con?
?ay, Erasmus, third; Ilutsen, Hoys' High,
lurth. Time, 0:25 4-5.
440-yard run -Won by It. Turner, Poly;
. Weinman, Poly, Becond ; Murphy, Eras
ius, third; II. Poole, -Manual, fourth.
Imp, (I .-;?>; ...
880-yard run ?Wen by P. A. Kirby, Poly;
now, Erasmus, second; Rick, Erasmus,
ilrd; Kulzbac-h, Flushing, fourth. Time,
:12.
FIELD EVENTS
Polo vault- Won by A. Harms, Flushing,
iili It fee and l % Inches; W. I.. Jel
e, Poly, with lu feet, Becond; W. Roach,
iryant, with !) fei ; ? ini lies, third; V. .
ennlngs, Jamaleu, with 9 fet .fourth
Putting 12-pound shol ?Won by G. Wer
man. Poly, with H feet; A. J. Dinn, Port
Washington, ?vil i 40 feel 7 ;? Inchas, n.-e
nd; E. Broadus, Jamaica, with 39 feet
1',-j Indus, third; )?'. Brender, Poly, with
i foi ; 5 Inehi b, fouri h.
Throwing tho javelin?Won by F. Brem?
er, Poly, with i..- feel 9 Inches; <l.
??".i". Poly, with 132 foot 3H Inches,
?fend, ii Larson, Manual, with 122 foot
n'y Inches, third; A. Doppel, Poly, with
22 feet 3 Inches, fourth.
Running hlgn jump?Won by P. W.
'rancis, Poly, with 5 feat 9 Inches; A.
loppel, Poly, with 6 feet 8 Inches, Becond;
IbHCh, Boys' lllnh, wiih 5 feet i Inches,
ilrd; W. sie nu.m, Flushing, with 5 feot
ii che*, f'iur'ti.
Throwing Ihn discus?Won t>v a. Doppel
oly, with 143 feel 2 Inches; W. Dodd
oly, who ! 11 feel l '.. Inchi ... . icond, c;
.'(-rl.man. Poly, with 12(1 feel BM inch.' ?
-ilrd. F. Bren l< r. v. ,i'i i it; feel G m, h. a
itirth.
Running bread jump?Won lu- !.', Brad
?y. Pert Washington, wild i<i feel 1(1
m lv , .1. 1'. Cnrpent* r, Poly, will' 19 foe!
'.- Inch B, Bei.I. l-.. DroaduH, Jama I, a
Uli lit foet, third; It. W. iBlgor, Manual
itii 17 feel m Inchi s, fourth.
Polin ?core Poly Prep, t.s ; Manual
raining, 21; Erasmus Hall. 19; Flushing
v Port Washington, If; Boys' nigh, 6
iimuiuu. c. Bryant, ?.
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Big Boxing Carnival
Planned by K. of C.
For Next Thursday
At the request of Major Weaver, of
the 77th Division, the Knights of Co?
lumbus are to stage another big boxing
carnival in Madison Square Garden on
Thursday evening, May 8. While sev?
eral world's champions, including
Benny Leonard and Jack Britton, are
expected to appear, the real feature of
the show will be those bouts partici?
pated in by the champions of the divi?
sion.
The soldiers have among their number
many who were prominent in the fistic
world before shouldering a rifle. A
scries of bouts was held in France, and
the winners of the finals will be pitted
against this country's best on Thurs?
day night.
Knockout Brennan, who, before
joining the colors, fought draws with
Mike Oibbons, Mike O'Dowd and Sol?
dier Bartfield, is one of the soldier lads
lo display his prowess. He is the 170
pound champion of the outfit. Cyclone
Williams is to oppose him.
Frankie Hufnagle, tho 125-pound
winner, will exchange wallops with
Tommy Shea, and Frank Gargano, win?
ner of the 135-pound class, wiii clash
with Johnny Clinton, Soldiers Zim?
merman and Geraghty. winners ??: the
118 and 145 pound championships, are
to be matched with good rrren of the
same weight. In addition to the sol?
diers there will be a number of exhi?
bition bouts.
Expert Believes Penn
Crew May Get Revenge
Ensign Grover Farnsworth, coxswain
of the Syracuse eight in 1911, believes
the Fenn crew has a good chance of
turning the taftles on the Navy when
the two meet on the SchufTkill in the
American Henley regatta, May 81.
Farnsworth is now tho coxswain for
the Detroit Boat Club, and has wit?
nessed all the important rowing races
this year, including the Penn-Navy
race.
"The Navy boat outrowed Pennsyl?
vania, but the middies have an unusual
L'rew this year," Farnsworth said.
?This is partly due to the fact that the
Naval Academy is at present larger
than it ever was before, but mostly be?
cause every midshipman is required to
take rowing. In this way every man
comes under the observation of the
coach and the best material is ob?
tained."
Designed Baseball Covers
Charles Jackson, said to have been
the first American corsctmaker and
the designer of the cover used on base?
balls, whereby the seam is sewed
inside, died a few days ago at Red
lands, Cal., aged ninety-five years.
Jackson began mnkihg corsets in
Worcester, Mass., and his sister sold
them. He lived in Redlands thirty
/ears.
Women's Swimming Title
At Stake To-day in West
New Record Also Expect?
ed in Fifty-Yard Race
at Neptune Beach
The women's national 50-yard swim?
ming championship will be held to?
day at Neptune Bench, Cal., over a
straightaway bath course, and Coast
experts seem confident that the Ameri?
can record will go by the board. They
claim that Mrs. Frances Cowells
Schroth, of San Francisco, has been
beating standard time in practice, and
although they concede the possibility
of her losing the race to either Miss
Bessie Rita Ryan, of Philadelphia, or
Miss Dorothy Burns, of Los Angeles,
they believe it will take new figures to
lead her home. Two other entrants
expected by some to be in the running
are Miss Betty Grimes, of Indianapolis,
and Miss Leila Dunkum, of Stockton.
The New York A. C. will stage its
annual swimming championships in
the home pool on Wednesday, and the
following titles will be competed for:
Free style, for class A sprinters, hav?
ing beaten one minute at the century,
and class B for those never having
gone so fast in competition; back
i stroke and. breast stroke, open to all.
The distance will be 100 yards in every
I event.
-
Mrs. Elizabeth PJechan Williams,
j Philadelphia's star distance .mermaid,
! who came to this city recently to or?
ganize a swimming department for the
I newly launched Carroll Club for Girls,
? has been the means of demonstrating
? j how keen and general is local interest
! in aquatics among members of tho so:;.
Since the opening of the pool three
wi eks ago she has built up classes for
beginners and advanced candidates
numbering 300 pupils, tho limit set
for short courses, and fifty more are
? already on the waiting list. Mean?
while, the first set of competitive
events for member:; was held during
i the week and the feature contests were
? won by Miss Marguerite Powers and
Miss Edna Bell, who show the traits of
I coming stars.
Honolulu appears to have developed
a dangerous rival to the peerless Duke !
Kahanamoku in John Kelii, a young!
Kanaka, who is not unknown to fame, !
for he' scored some brilliant victories
' while the duke was in this country last
summer. The lad has been displaying
such remarkable speed lately in train?
ing that Hawaiians are beginning to
wonder who will come out on top when
the two next try conclusions, and they
await with keen anticipation the open?
ing water carnival of the season, to be
held within a few days, for both stars
are entered for the 100-yard swim.
The People's Palace, of Jersey City, |
has set May 17 as the date for its |
) chamyiionship swimming meet, at which !
? will be featured Metropolitan A. A. U.
' title contests for both watermen and
! maids.
"The Swimming Magazine," a montly
periodical edited by Ernest M. Smith,
former 100-yard champion of the Pa?
cific Coast, has just started publica?
tion in San Francisco. As the first
issue announces, its object is to
further the interests of swimming as
a sport, a useful and valuable accom?
plishment and a health giver.
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Latest advices from Australia bring |
| news of a remarkable feat performed
by Richmond Eve, of Sydney, a lad of
sixteen, lie is. credited with swimming
440 yards in 5 minutes and 59 seconds ;
; in competition, which is wonderful
' time for a boy of his age.
i The record committee of the National
Collegiate A. A. will not recognize the
intercollegiate 50-yard standard of 2-1
, seconds recently claimed for Clarence
Lane, of Honolulu, now a student of
[St. Mary's College, Oakland, Cal. De?
tails of the performance ?'how that the
start was faulty and that only two
time keepers caught the race. The
mark of 25 seconds set earlier in the
? season by Edwin Binney, of Yale, has
? been officially accepted meanwhile.
The announcement recently made
?that Mrs. Claire Galligan Finney, of
? the Women's S. A., America's greatest
all-round mermaid, had retired per
! manently from coin petition may have
j been premature. Mrs. Finney is now
. at Hermosa Beach, near Los Angeles,
with the ocean ever at hand, and there
? is indication of future probabilities
in the fact that she has asked t;. be
notified as soon as it is decided when
and where will be held the try-outs
for the team of fuir swimmers, which
it is planned to send to next year's
; Olympiad.
Swimming Outlook
Fine at Brown
Charlie Lawton, '20, has been elected
captain of next year's swimming team
at Brown University. Lawton in one
of the best all-round swimmers on the
team, and his choice is a popular on".
The team next season should he a
good one. Captain Peters of this
year's team and Welch, the plunger,
are the only two men who will be grad?
uated in June. With some excellent
material in prospect in preparatory
schools men who have announced their
intention of coming to Brown, there
should be no trouble in putting out a
fust bunch of mermen next winter.
Cornell Students
Showing Up Well
In Track Athletics
ITHACA, N. Y., May 3.?Sixteen per
cent of the male students at Cornell
University are registered for track ath?
letics, according to a statement made
to-day by Coach Jack Moakley. of the
'varsity track team. This is the high?
est percentage of students ever enrolled
in any sport at Cornell, and is regarded
by Coach Moakley as a striking evi?
dence that the Cornell policy of open?
ing up the facilities of 'varsity teams
and the advantages of training under
'varsity coaches to the undergraduate
body at large are making a hit.
Out of the 2,500 male students en?
rolled here for the spring term, 400 are
regularly working out under Moakley,
choosing track as the form of exercise
they prefer. Moakley has had larger
squads, perhaps, but never such a high
ratio of track candidates compared to
the total enrolment.
The track team proper is preparing
for the dual meet scheduled this
month, and for the intercollegiates. The
outlook is not so satisfactory as Cor
nellians had hoped, because the show?
ing made by Cornell's antries at the
Pennsylvania relay carnival was not up
to pre-war standard.
In the weight events, both jumps and
the pole vault the Ithacans fell down
hard, and even the runners did not ap?
proach the speed of pre-war relay
teams at Ithaca. Moakley will have to
eliminate the field events, with the pos?
sible exception of the running broad
jump, from his calculations. What Cor?
nell does on the track this year must
be accomplished by her runners, from
the 440-yard dash to the two-mile, and
by her hurdlers, with possibly some
help from the sprinters and broad
jumpers.
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Rutgers Track Men
Beat Columbia Team
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. Y., May 3.?
Rutgers' track team won over Co?
lumbia in a thrillng dual meet here to?
day by the score 6G to 48, the out?
come being in doubt till the last event.
Rutgers made a clean sweep of the
weight and pole vault events, held this
morning, getting a total of 24 points.
A new Rutgers star in the weight
events was unearthed in the freshman,
Pratt, who beat out the veteran Robe
son by a bare inch in the discus and
shot put. C;>.ptain Bellerjeau won both
hurdle events for the scarlet. Wettels
won the century and furlong for Co?
lumbia, but Shaw, the intercollegate
half-mile champ, had to be satisfied
with a first in the quarter and a sec?
ond in the half mile.
Columbia Beats Stevens
STEVENS I COLrttBIA
al. r ii po a e alir hpoi o
Roth, SS.... r. (I 0 1 1 liSohnanrs. rf 5 0 0 0 0 0
Harry, 3b... 510 2 2 1 HoiUkhan.lf 5 2 3 2 O?
OSSOT, lb... 5 10 13 0 0 Cris, es_ 10 O 0 0 0
Carlson, p.. 4 00 l i, o Ai*erman. a 5 1 1 4 2 0
Drew, 2b... 40 1 M 2 J U?Kxlman. rf 5 1 1 1 0 0
Donnelly, If 4 1 3 1 o 1 I.aiie. Ib... 5 0 0 13 0 0
Hi!1.-y. rf. .. 40 1 l 0 0|Canapary,3b 5 0 2 2 3 0
Hlgley, rf.. 400 o 0 0 W'nsteln, 2b 4 o o 2 o o
lrerranl. c. 4 00 5 lo Koonltr, p.. 4 0 1 :; :, i
?Houcko, su 4 1 2 0 2 1
|lj93tor. p... 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals.39 3 .'. 27 12 5 Totals_43 5 10 27 12 2
"iiatted for Urls in third inning.
Columbia ....o o o i o 2 i o i?5
Stevens .0 0 o 1 0 0 0 2 0?3
Sacrifie hits?Daley, Barry (2), Cana
pary, Egger, Weinstein. Stolen bases?
Donnelly, Roth, Drew. Left on bases?
Stevens, 5; Columbia ti. Bases on halls?
Off Carlson, 2; off Koenigr, 7. Struck out
?By CarlBOn, 5; by Koenigr, 3; by Lester,
1. Hit by pitcher?-By Lester, 10. Wild
pitch?Koenigr, 1. lilts??iff Koenig, ?.
Balk?Carlson. Umpire?Mr. Louis. Time
j( game -Two hours 10 minutes.
Venn Beats Harvard
HARVARD PE.V.V
ah r h p-> a el ab r h po a c
Evan?, cf... 2 00 0 1 OlM'radlan. rf 3 3 1 0 0 0
.nnuoiis. as. 4 12 2 fil Straus. If. . 4 1 3 2 10
Knowlcs. If. 4 10 2 1 0 .Sweeney, ss 4 1 1 1 4 1
Vrkliw. :'1>. 4 01 2 1 1 Warwick. .-. 3 0 1 3 0o'
ttcLeod. 2b. 2 00 4 2 f, McNlrhoUb 4 0 111 2 0
?'mth'ir'm.lb 4 0 2 8 0 0 Ilarrav. of.. 3 1 2 1 0 0
liw?, rf... 30 1 1 (I 0 ISolian, 2b. . 3 O 2 5 4 0
flair, o_ 20 0 2 3 o Walker, 3b. SO 0 4 11
llcelow, p.of 2 0 1 2 10 T.:???:?. p... 2 1 1 0 2 0
?ullar.i, p. . 2 (I 0 1 2 0;
?l.lmiutt . . 0 0 0 0 0 e
Totals.2? 2 7 24 10 2 Totals. . . .21? 8 12 27 1? 2
?Hatted fon (?ross.
Harvard. 00000200 0?2
Pennsylvania.... 0 13 2 0 0 0 0 ??6
Home run ~Mr.urn.dlan. Three-base hits
?Straus, Frothlngham. Two-base hits -
?traus, EmmoilB. Sac-rifle." hits?McLeod,
Bigelow. Struck out ?By Tltxell, 3. Bases
in balls?Off Bullard, 2; oft* Tltzell. 4.
...ubi'' play?Sweeney to liohan to Mc
S'ichol. Stolen bases?Titzol, McNIchol,
i-'roihlnifhain. I'mplres?Rudolph and CJ'If
ith. Time, 1:52.
Prineeton Beats Haverford
PRTNCKTON PREP I HAVERFOItn
ni. r M in. u ,? ab r h no a ?
lam-It. U.5 11 a 3 0 Shaw . 4 ?> S ^ ? 1
miin. 2b. .4 0! .1 OlIKiiowltoo _30 3 011
I'l-iua. 3b.r, 0 1 4 2 0'Ilaird .40 1 i o i
Vier, r ...5 10 0 1 0 Kendal .411 00 1
lavles, cf p.8 3 0 l ooillulm .... 301 0 03
lavld'n, n>.4 2 1 7 1 0 Oliphant .4 i> ?> 00]
kaliford, If.S It 0 0 0 Barry 3 0 0 110
larr, rf-3 10 o o o Sellen .un ?n 0
ted'd p cf.3 11 0 CO l'nrl?. ? ...210151
StuWia . ..1 0 0 n 0.
Totals . 30 10 6 18 13 l| TbUla . ..302 s 11 : o
'rince-ton .o l 1 3 g o o ?- 10
lavorford .0 o o o o o 1 1
Two-base hit?Barr. Struck out ? By
lertfleld, 6; by Davis?, 1; bv Parke. 8; hv
Ipaldlngr, 1. Bases on bal?n--on* Redfleld
off Diivles, 4; off Spnldlnff, 2. off
?iilU.'. 4
Yale in Fear
Tiger Athletes
Will Conquer
Elis Appear Strong in ?he
Field Events, but Are
Weak on the Track
NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 3.?Yale's
track team, which will be selected as
a result of to-day's spring meet for the
dual games with Princeton and Har?
vard, is unusually weak in track, but
above the average in strength in the
field events. Eli undergraduates think
that it has less than an even chance
of defeating either the Tiger or the
Crimson this season, especially the for?
midable aggregation which it must
meet at Princeton next Saturday.
Much depends upon the physical
condition of Harvey Reed, the
runner, and Walter Schleiter, tho
sprinter, both of whom are slightly out
of form. Reed, who returned from
| military service only a month ago, was
unable to take part in the University
of Pennsylvania relay games, and John
Mack, the Yale coach, fears that he
will not regain physical form this year
; sufficient to be counted upon as a point
? winner. ?,
During his freshman year Reed, who
j came to Yale from Mercersburp as a
j preparatory school record breaker,
reeled off a mile in 4 minutes 23 sec?
onds. Schleiter. who won Yale's 100
yard and 220-yard dashes in the last
meet held, pulled a tendon last week
and his return to form is exceedingly
doubtful.
Dee Cernea, one of Yale's best sprin?
ters two years ago, has not yet shown
satisfactory form this spring. Mack
has in Smith, Cowles, Neville and Jon
? a fine, promising field of sprinters for
both the 100 and the 220-yard dashes,
but none of them looks strong enough
to win either event against the Tiger
stars.
For the quarter-mile Yale has only
one probable point winner. Frank Hef
felfinger, who is travelling close ti>
fifty seconds. For the half-mile Yale
will rely upon Fisher and O'Brien, the
latter a miler who will run in both
events. This spring, however, his best
form has been shown in the half-mile
event. Prizer, another second string
! entry, will be used in either the mile
I or half mile, as Mack decides to cam?
paign the distance material.
Aside from Reed, O'Brien and Prix.er
! are the likely entries for the mile
I event, leaving Waterman and Driscoll
! for the two-mile. Both have favored
the mile event until this season, when
! they were switched to the longer dis
| tance event.
Yale is unusually weak in the hurdles
I this season, Captain Erdman, of the
i Tigers, being conceded first in both the
timber events. .Shedden, Yale's chief
! entry, has not been well this spring,
1 and is still out of form. Totten Heffel
; finger, brother of Frank, the quartcr
miler. is Yale's chief hope, unless Shed?
den returns to form.
Yale seems certain to outpoint tho
Tigers in the field events. Landon,who
. won the high jump at the University of
? Pennsylvania games with a leap of ? ix
! feet, is favorite for first place at
? Princeton next Saturday.
Ford, Sweeney and Parker, in tho
! pole vault, compose a trio ail of whom
; nave been clearing the bar at twelve
'? feet. Ford and Sweeney have ev< n
done a trifle better in practice. Prince?
ton will be fortunate to win more than
one point in this evsnt.
Ford, Roche and Cowles have been
clearing twenty feet in the broad jump,
Ford having leaped twenty-two feel in
? practice trial. Yale should register a
majority of the points in this event.
With Captain Jim Braden, of the
, Yale team, putting the shot forty-six
! feet, and with Carter Gait recording
i nearly forty-four, Yale is favorite for
? first and second places in this event.
| Gait is Yale's best entry in the ham?
mer throw, and is favorite for captur?
ing first place. Otis, the former foot?
ball tackle, is also a probable point
winner in this event, with Acosta,
Vorys, Morris and Captain Gates of the
football team forming a fine field of
weight throwers.
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Panthers in Track
Meet With Navy
Saturday, May 10
PITTSBURGH, Penn., May 3.?The
University of Pittsburgh track team
has its first dual meet of the year
with the Annapolis Naval Academy
team at Annapolis, Md., Saturday, May
10, it being the second time the Pan?
thers and Middies have met. Last
year's meet resulted in a victory for
Pittsburgh by the score of 60 to 40.
In that meet Frank Shea, Pitt's quar?
ter-mile champion, won four firsts.
The team this year seems almost a
well balanced as last year's, althougii
Sutherland, ;he clever weight thrower,
has been graduated.
Other events on the Pitt track
schedule are the thirteenth anrtuai il
tercoilegiate and interscholastic meet
held here under university auspices,
the national intercollegiate meet
Harvard and a dual meet with Penn
State College. The annual Pitt meet
for college and schoolboy athletes
the classic of Western Pennsylvania,
and an entry list of at least 1,000 in?
dividual athletes is expected. It is
held on the Schenley Oval half-mile
track, one of the best in the country.
The university tennis team has seven
matches scheduled with Western Penn?
sylvania college teams, being due to
open May 9 with Westminster College.
An elimination tournament is now
being held to choose the 'varsity.
Plans are under way to form a 'var?
sity rifle team, this move being fos?
tered by Major C. W. Savage, of the
R. O. T. C, at Pitt. A team will be
developed for the national matches
held in August at Caldwell, N. J.
The university is not supporting a
'varsity baseball team this year, but'in?
stead is encouraging th# formation of
interclass, interdepartment and inter
fraternity leagues. In this way more
students are able to participate, and
it will enable tho athletic authorities
to determine if there is a reel desire
'to reinstate baseball as a Varsity sport.
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New Haven Ball Club
Will Play Yale Nine
George Weiss, of the New Haven
Eastern League club, has ordered the
players to report for practice May ...
It is planned to play a two or three
game series with the Yn'e University
nine just prior to the opening of the
Eastern League season. May 14, while
as many other exhibition games as
possible will be stapred.
Although Weiss has lines out for
new talent, in acquiring possession of
the New Haven franchise the following
players automatically come under his
ownership: Neal Ball, Bradshaw, Pi
conda, Christie, Moose Miller ami
Torphy, infieldcrs; Leid. Nutter and
Stimpson, outbidders; Tyler, pitcher,
und Pjura, backstop.