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THE SEASON IN AMATEUR ATHLETICS 
distance men who saved the day for Cornell. 
Their work in this department was nothing 
short of wonderful and, safe to say, has never 
been equaled in the annals of “‘intercollegiates.”’ 
No one will now dispute the statement that 
Moakley, Cornell’s trainer, is the “last word”’ 
in the development of distance runners. This 
makes it two straight for Cornell, she having 
eamed the title last year. 
In the West some remarkable work was done 
in the conference meet at Evanston, Il. Michi- 
gan, who won the championship title on that 
occasion, overwhelmed her competitors with 
62% points. A new pole vault record was estab- 
_lished, Samse, of Indiana, clearing 12 feet 4% 
inches. 
The only occasion on which a Western team 
(by no means representative) has been seen in 
competition with men of the East was that of 
the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival at Philadel- 
phia early in thespring. Michigan’scrack quar- 
tette showed their heels to Yale and Pennsy]l- 
vania, breaking the record and duplicating 
their performance of the year before. Through- 
out the meet the Westermers held their own and 
showed conclusively their ability to cope with 
the picked men of the East. In spite of this and 
other more than ample evidence of the need of 
an intersectional meet, the prospect of its con- 
summation is as dim as ever. 
Apropos of records, it has been remarked 
that we have not been setting up new marks 
with the regularity and easy nonchalance of 
former years. And still further, the question has 
been raised as to whether existing records are 
not in the vicinity of the unassailable. Of 
course, there is a limit to all things. But any 
attempt to reduce the proposition to a parallel 
with the ‘“‘North Pole idea,” for example, and 
“farthest North,” is not only illogical but out of 
keeping with these progressive times. An appli- 
cation of Nietzsche’s philosophy of eternal 
development dispels the notion in a twinkling. 
“We have all witnessed the recent advent of 
the two-minute harness horse, and some of us 
hark back to the days of Goldsmith Maid, when 
“‘two-thirty” was “‘going some.”’ That hard- 
won half-minute was years in gaining. Follow- 
ing this line of thought, it is not unreasonable to 
expect, for instance, that we will one day 
develop a runner who will negotiate a mile in 
four minutes flat and the “‘hundred” in nine 
seconds. What matters it if the day be off in the 
distant future—the spirit is the vital thing. 

Baseball 
The banner emblematic of intercollegiate 
baseball championship flies from the Princeton 
staff this year. The Tigers played a good, 
consistent game all through the season and 
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earned the title more decisively than any team 
in recent years. With Byram and Heyniger in 
great form, a lightning infield and a team of 
hard hitters, they maintained an unbroken 
front in their games in the “Big Six” barring a 
defeat by Pennsylvania late in the season. 
Yale, Harvard and Cornell, the principal con- 
tenders for championship honors, were each 
defeated two straight. The Tigers put up a 
Garrison finish in the last Yale game, winning 
in the ninth, with two out and two strikes on 
the batsman. The end of the season presents 
the usual jumbled-up aspect. On her showing 
with Princeton and victory over Yale, Brown 
should be entitled to second place, with Cornell 
third. Cornell, who started out brilliantly, was 
beaten by Yale. But her season’s record is far 
cleaner than that of the Elis. Yale and 
Harvard were big disappointments this year, 
especially the former, who looked very strong, 
on paper, at the season’s start. 
In the Middle West, Michigan won the 
Conference championship after a nip-and-tuck 
strugggle with Illinois, who finished second, 
with Chicago third. 

Rowing 
Cornell still reigns supreme in the collegiate 
rowing world. By capturing both ’Varsity races 
at the Poughkeepsie regatta, Coach Courtney’s 
men established: their claim to premier honors 
for another year. 
The event of the day, the ’Varsity four-mile 
race for eight-oared shells, was an exciting 
struggle. Syracuse closely pressed the Ithacans 
throughout the long journey, only to suffer the 
penalty of their exhausting effort in losing 
second honors to Pennsylvania, who came up 
with a magnificent spurt in the last few rods. 
Wisconsin, Columbia and Georgetown fought 
it out in a little race of their own for second 
division honors, and finished in the order 
named. 
The ’Varsity four-oar event was won by 
Cornell by five lengths in hollow fashion, with 
Syracuse second and Columbia third. Wis- 
consin was represented in the race for the first 
time, but failed to show to advantage. Syracuse 
sprung a surprise by nipping the freshman race. 
This event, the outcome of which is always 
uncertain at the best, had been conceded to the 
Cornellians, who ruled favorite in the betting. 
After being twice defeated in the freshman 
and four-oared races, Harvard’s lucky crew 
vanquished Yale in the ’Varsity race at the New 
London regatta, adding another to her slim 
list of victories. The freshman and ’Varsity 
races were well-contested affairs, but the four- 
oared race was easy for Yale, who won by over 
a quarter of a minute. 
