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24th — 115th Separate Company of Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., at Poughkeepsie. 



NOTES. 

 The intercollegiate fencing tournament 

 between the teams of Harvard, Columbia, 

 Cornell, and Annapolis will be held in New 

 York City some time in March, the exact 

 date not having yet been definitely fixed. 

 For this tournament the Racquet and Tennis 

 Club, of New York, offered 5 years ago a 

 bronze swordsman as a perpetual challenge 

 trophy. Harvard won the first 4 years, Co- 

 lumbia winning last season. Reports from 

 Harvard say the material for the team is all 

 that could be desired. All the members of 

 last year's team, M. D. Diaz, '99; J. G. Pal- 

 frey, 3 L. ; and M. Green, 3 L., are eligible 

 this season, and in addition more than 20 

 new men have come out to take instructions 

 from Professor Louis Rondelle. Equally 

 favorable reports come from Columbia 

 where the men are being regularly trained 

 under Professor Goupsey. Harvard also in- 

 tends sending a junior team to compete for 

 the national junior championship at the 

 Fencers' Club, New York, in April. This 

 team will be selected from men who have 

 never won a medal in the Amateur Fencers' 

 League. At first the junior tournament was 

 open only to members of the Interscholastic 

 Fencing Association, but any athletic club or 

 college may now enter a team. 



At last Yale is about to take a step in the 

 right direction. The general opinion of the 

 authorities of the New Haven Navy seems 

 to be that a graduate amateur coach should 

 look after the crews. This is a move that 

 all of the rowing colleges should have taken 

 long ago. No man, no matter who, should 

 be paid to coach an athletic team, if any 

 good instructor can be possibly obtained to 

 train the men without recompense. 



The change of coaches, and the possible 

 change of system may tend to put the Blue 

 back a little in aquatics; but it will not be 

 long before her crews will again be in the 

 front rank. The change will be well worth 

 the cost of a few years' success. 



No definite conclusion has yet been 

 reached as to who will look after Yale on 

 the water. Dr. Percy Bolton seems popu- 

 lar among the influential graduates. " Bron- 

 cho " Armstrong, ex-captain of the crew 

 is also talked of. Of the 2 Bolton is the 

 more experienced. At present these men 

 are the only ones whose names are promi- 

 nently mentioned for the place. 



The Harvard University Gymnastic Team 

 will give a joint exhibition with the team of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. The exhi- 

 bition is to be held at Philadelphia in the 

 early part of this month. The Harvard team 

 will be chosen from the following: F. W. 

 Ball, Sp.; J. P. Jones, '02; E. B. Blakeley, 

 '02; G. DeG. Cooper, 2L; C Ratcliffe, 3 



L; C. G. Herbert, 'oo; C. T. Richardson, 

 '02; W. F. Baker, '02; J. B. Burnet, 1 L.; 

 L. W. Nagle, '01; E. E. Franchat, '02; R. 

 H. Gould, 1 Du; E. W. James, 'oi; P. 

 Bartelett, '02; L. L. Greene, '02; A. A. 

 Bryant, 2 G. ; D. W. A. Armistead, Sp. 



E. B. Blakely is the captain of the team, and 



F. W. Ball is the manager. 



Captain Wright of the Brown University 

 Track Team is arranging a series of indoor 

 athletic meets to be held in Providence dur- 

 ing the winter term. The idea is to get the 

 men into shape for the spring meet at Wor- 

 cester. 



Doctor Savage, the Physical Director of 

 Columbia University, in conjunction with 

 Captain Stevens of the Track Team, is ar- 

 ranging a series of contests to be held on 

 alternate Saturdays in the new gymnasium. 



Dr. W. B. Peet has been engaged to coach 

 the Columbia crews for the season of 1899. 

 Dr. Peet entered Columbia with the class 

 of '86, and on leaving college turned his 

 attention to rowing, in which sport he had 

 been particularly successful as an under- 

 graduate. As a coach he proved himself a 

 success by leading Columbia to victory sev- 

 eral times, and notably in '95 at Poughkeep- 

 sie. 



Columbia is preparing a water polo team 

 to compete in the tournament to be held at 

 the sportsmen's show at Madison Square 

 Garden, in March. Strict requirements must 

 be met by all candidates for the team and if 

 Columbia puts out a team, every man of 

 which can meet these requirements, she 

 ought to come pretty near first place. 



The floor of the new gymnasium at Co- 

 lumbia has been recently put in shape in 

 preparation for the dual gymnastic exhibi- 

 tion to be held in March, between Colum- 

 bia and Yale. 



The spring work of the Yale University 

 Track Team will not begin this year until the 

 middle of this month. Usually the men have 

 started training in January. 



Deer, moose, ducks and grouse were 

 plentiful here this year, but were killed off 

 at a rapid rate by poachers out of season. 

 One man is said to have boasted that he 

 killed 18 deer in the summer, while hunters 

 have come in from one day's outing with 7 

 or 8 grouse before the open season. Your 

 articles on game hogs are excellent, and I 

 trust you may never grow weary in the 

 work. Recreation is a hummer. 



T. B. Scott, Duluth, Minn. 



Don't forget that $2 will buy a copy of 

 that beautiful book, " Bird Neighbors " 

 and a yearly subscription to Recreation. 



