414 



RECREA TION. 



Columbia, March 13th. 



B. B. Tilt 17, 18— 35 



G. \V. Beadle 20, 12 — 32 



R. E. Whigham 16, 16— 32 



E. C. Fiedler 9, 14— 23 



J. P. Mitchell 7, 12— 19 



Total 141 



Princeton, March 14th. 



B. F. Elbert, Jr 22, 21— 43 



C. B. McCulloh 16, 16— 32 



J. H. Cludistee 1 1, 17— 28 



E. L. Kendall 23, 21— 44 



H. H. Laughlin 20, 21 — 41 



Total 188 



The individual winners' scores and the 

 accounts of the contests which take place 

 for the prizes will be closely followed in 

 future numbers. The contests will un- 

 doubtedly be long drawn out, for it will be 

 difficult for any one man to win 2 or 3 

 times in succession. 



HIGHLAND ROWING ASSOCIATION. 



Very seldom have I had the pleasure of 

 writing about the aims and hopes of an 

 organization of as much worth as the High- 

 land Rowing Association at Poughkeepsie 

 on the Hudson. There have been some dis- 

 interested, generous men in this country 

 who have loved amateur sport enough for 

 its own sake to go deep down in tjieir 

 pockets and furnish the material means 

 for supporting large athletic undertakings. 

 They have given what was more valuable 

 than their money, their moral support and 

 time. Few as the real benefactors of ama- 

 teur sport have been they have left that! 

 wholesome influence behind them which is 

 to-day rapidly purifying all athletic sport. 

 The tendency is to do away with profession- 

 alism, and may the time soon come when 

 amateur sport will alone be tolerated. 



I firmly believe that no greater aid to 

 amateur and college sport was ever given 

 by any set of men than that which the High- 

 land Association proposes to render. _ The 

 aim of the association is to promote inter- 

 collegiate boat racing on the Hudson river, 

 and eventually establish an American Hen- 

 ley to be rowed each year over the Pough- 

 keepsie course. The idea is to bring all the 

 American colleges into line and induce each 

 year, if possible, a foreign crew or crews to 

 enter. 



The schedule is an ambitious one, and 

 every true lover of sport and American col- 

 lege boating should aid it by every means in 

 his power. The association will aid the col- 

 leges, and the crews representing them, and 

 that it will do so disinterestedly, can be 

 seen from the list of its officers and patrons 

 soon to be published who are men well 



known fo/ their integrity, and love of hon- 

 est amateur sport. 



The plan at present is for the association 

 to procure all the places, near the scene of 

 the race, best adapted for training quarters. 

 The representatives of the different univer- 

 sities will then draw lots for the choice of 

 places. This one service, when the immense 

 value of a suitable place for the men to live 

 in is considered, should entitle the Highland 

 Association, and its officers, to all the thanks 

 and good will from the colleges interested 

 that can be given. In this way the owners 

 of the places wanted will not be able to run 

 their rents up to triple their value as in the 

 past, nor will the colleges that can put up 

 the most money have any advantage over 

 the lower bidders. All will be treated alike, 

 and favoritism will be shown to none. 



The association intends to build larger 

 and more conveniently arranged boat houses 

 than were furnished the crews in '97. The 

 new houses are to be longer and wider, and 

 will contain shower baths, oar racks, ample 

 dressing rooms, etc. 



The whole course, newly and accurately 

 surveyed, will be kept absolutely free from 

 annoying craft on the day of the race, and 

 the power conferred by Congress on the 

 former Poughkeepsie Regatta Committee, 

 which has been absorbed by the Highland 

 Association, will be rigidly exercised to this 

 end. A perfect policing of the course is 

 promised, and any captain or pilot who at- 

 tempts to disobey «any of the instructions 

 given him will be held up as an example to 

 all future offenders, and it is not likely that 

 he will be lightly handled. 



GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION. 



A thousand people witnessed the gymnas- 

 tic exhibition given at the Columbia Uni- 

 versity gymnasium by the teams of Colum- 

 bia, Yale, and Princeton. The work of the 

 3 teams was solely that of an exhibition, not 

 a competition, and was so different each 

 from the other 2 that comparison is almost 

 out of the question. The Princeton team 

 drew' a distinct line between their work, 

 and that of Yale and Columbia, as they con- 

 fined themselves almost entirely to the 

 spectacular feats seen at the circus. Co- 

 lumbia and Yale addressed themselves to 

 the heavier exercises on the bars, horse, 

 and rings. 



The performance opened with work on 

 the horizontal bar by Yale and Columbia. 

 This was followed by exercise on the double 

 bar by Princeton. C. H. Parker of the 

 Orange and Black team was applauded 

 vigorously for his difficult manoeuvres with 

 the baton. Mountain, Katzenbach, and 

 Snyder, all mates of Parker, did extremely 

 well. 



R. G. Clapp of the Yale team gave an 

 exhibition pole vault, and though he 

 vaulted only 3 or 4 times the form of his 

 work showed that he is a worthy holder of 

 the world's indoor record at his event. 





