COLLEGE ATHLETLCS. 



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best men have left the colleges, but in almost 

 every case there is an excellent player to fill 

 the vacancy. 



The outlook at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, 

 and Princeton is especially good. Prince- 

 ton will suffer least of all from losses, Har- 

 vard and Columbia the most, while Yale 

 will lose nearly all of her pitching staff. 



Greenway's absence from the box will be 

 especially felt at Yale; as Fearey and Chaun- 

 cey, the substitute pitchers, have also gradu- 

 ated, only Hall and Hecker are left. In 

 every other place the Blue should be strong. 

 Aside from the pitchers all of last year's 9 

 have returned, excepting WadswOrth, first 

 base, and Hazen, third base, whose places 

 can be filled without difficulty from the sub- 

 stitute list. Those men now in college are 

 Sullivan, catcher; Captain De Saulles, sec- 

 ond base; Camp, short stop; Eddy, left 

 field; Wear, center field; and Wallace, 

 right field. The subject of a good pitcher 

 will be a source of great anxiety at New 

 Haven next spring, and it looks now as 

 though some new man will have to be 

 found, and developed. 



Harvard has lost by graduation, Captain 

 Rand, left field; Chandler, center field; 

 Burgess, right field, and Hayes, pitcher. 

 Robinson, third base, has not returned to 

 college. Cozzens and Foster, 2 of the sub- 

 stitutes, have also graduated. Harvard's 

 losses, though great, will probably not be 

 extremely serious, except possibly in the 

 outfield. The men now left are Friz and 

 McCormick, pitchers; Reid and Davis, 

 catchers; Lewis, first base; Captain Haugh- 

 ton, second base; Laughlin, short stop, and 

 Sears, outfielder. 



Columbia, on account of only having put 

 a university base ball team in the field last 

 season, for the first time in some years, is 

 in perhaps the worst position of all in regard 

 to material for her 9. Captain Pell hopes 

 to be able to induce many new men to come 

 out, and try for places. The services of Dr. 

 J. J. Cotter have been secured as coach, and 

 Leo Feschel of last year's team will pay a 

 great deal of attention to developing the 

 pitchers. Now that the cage in the new 

 gymnasium is all ready for practice the 

 work of the men can be prosecuted without 

 hinderance. The outlook is bright for a 

 good team from the Blue and White, and 

 Columbia will send out a 9 worthy of the 

 name. 



Princeton seems to be in about the best 

 condition of all the teams, as she will lose 

 but 3 men: Kelly, first base; Captain But- 

 ler, short stop; and Easton, left field. 

 With Hillebrand and Kafer back again, she 

 will have a strong battery, and Kelly's loss 

 will be the only one felt at all. It is ex- 

 pected, however, that some new man can 

 be trained up to fill his place creditably. 

 Besides her battery, Princeton will have the 

 following old men back: Burke, second 

 base; Hutchings, third base; Watkins, 



center field; and Suter, right field. Harri- 

 son, substitute pitcher, has also returned to 

 college. 



CAN THEY AFFORD IT? 



Many newspapers, all over the country, 

 have stated, on what they call good author- 

 ity, that both Yale and Harvard will resign- 

 from the Intercollegiate Athletic Associa- 

 tion in the near future. It hardly seems pos- 

 sible that there can be any truth in the re- 

 port, but nothing has been heard as yet to 

 the contrary from Cambridge or New 

 Haven. The papers printing these reports 

 claim the 2 colleges in question intend 

 setting up a little intercollegiate athletic as- 

 sociation of their own, with only 2 members 

 — Yale and Harvard. 



It would seem the rankest folly to do any 

 thing more than laugh at the report. Yale 

 and Harvard have a duty to perform which 

 they cannot evade. Of the great universities 

 they are the oldest in the land. They must 

 keep the position they have always held in 

 the popular mind. Harvard, Yale, Colum- 

 bia, Princeton, Cornell, the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and others of less note stand 

 for all that is good in culture, and in ath- 

 letics. All these colleges owe aid and help 

 to the others in every way, and as much in 

 athletics as in anything else. The purest 

 amateur sport we have in the country, sport 

 not as pure as it might be, but still the best 

 we have, is found in our college athletics. 

 Yale cannot withdraw from any of the re- 

 sponsibility that her position imposes on 

 her, Harvard cannot withdraw. 



■ If any withdrawal is made, for no matter 

 what reason, that reason will surely be mis- 

 understood, and more harm will come to 

 both Harvard and Yale from this rash step 

 than from any move they have ever made. 



COLUMBIA'S CREW COACH. 



In '97 those in charge of Columbia's 

 aquatics deemed it best to secure the ser- 

 vices of a graduate coach who would serve 

 without pay. Mr. J. A. B. Cowles, '83, was 

 selected to train the men, and it is due to his 

 untiring efforts that Columbia stands where 

 she does to-day, for in '96 the rowing in- 

 terests of the blue and white had reached 

 their lowest ebb. This was shown in the 

 terrible defeat she suffered that year at the 

 hands of Cornell and Pennsylvania, and in 

 the fact that in '97 she came very near not 

 having any crew at all. 



It is hard to say whether the recalling of 

 Dr. Peet was wise or not. Time can only 

 show. It seems though that the employ- 

 ment of a professional coach, as Dr. Peet is, 

 cannot fail to work serious injury to Co- 

 lumbia. A good and a winning crew is not 

 made in a year, or even in 2 years. Mr. 

 Cowles took charge of Columbia's rowing 

 when it was in the most demoralized state 

 it had ever been, and was fast bringing 

 order out of chaos. He taught the men his 



