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man's injury, together with the necessity of 

 running Poate and Munson in tw,.o races, 

 may cause her withdrawal. 



Princeton will have a team that will take 

 a lot of beating, and Harvard and Yale will 

 both be strong. None of these can touch 

 Michigan's time if the Wolverines are in 

 top-notch form. 



THE SPECIAL INVITATION EVENTS. 



The winners look like : 100 yards, Schick, 

 Harvard; high hurdle, Catlin, Chicago; 

 pole vault, McLanahan. Yale; shot put, Rose, 

 Michigan; hammer throw, Shevlin, Yale; 

 broad jump and high jump — open. 



Blair and Hogenson of Chicago can worry 

 Schick. Annis of Michigan, a freshman 

 from Exeter, is said to be a yard better than 

 even time. Dear, Penn, and Rulon-Miller, 

 Princeton, are 10 second men. 



Catlin's 15 3-5 is better than any hurdler 

 in the East can approach. Fishleigh of 

 Michigan can probably beat any Eastern man. 

 Vonnegut and Ashburner of Cornell, Amsler, 

 Pennsylvania, Torry, Yale, and Castleman, 

 Bowdoin, are the best of the lot. 



McLanahan is said to vault 12 feet. Behr 

 and Adriance of Yale, Wilkins, Kennedy and 

 Clark of Chicago, and Jackson of Cornell, 

 have all done 11 feet 3 inches indoors. 



Shevlin will have to extend himself in 

 the hammer. Parry and Tobin of Chicago 

 throw 145 and 140 feet. There are several 

 Eastern men who approach 140. 



In the shot, world's figures are confident- 

 ly expected. Rose is scheduled to meet 

 Coe. E>oth have beat 48 feet in competition. 

 Coe's 49.1V2 was disallowed. If the two 

 men contest, the keenest interest will center 

 in the result. There are five men better than 

 44 feet. Dunlap, Michigan, has beaten 45. 

 Schoenfus, Harvard ; Feuerback, C. C. N. Y. ; 

 Boyd, Penn, and Porter, Cornell, are the 

 others. 



The broad jump will see a pretty con- 

 test with Friend, Chicago, 22.4; Weede, 

 Penn, 22.1; Hubbard, Amherst, 22.4; Shef- 

 field, Buffalo, 22.3 ; Green, Penn., Stangland, 

 Columbia, the champion, is uncertain, be- 

 cause of his injury. 



De Laney, Wisconsin, if he comes East, 

 could win the high jump with 6 feet. 



EARLY RECORDS IN BASEBALL. 



Baseball promises no differently after the 

 first fortnight's play than before the season 

 started. Harvard and Princeton look strong, 

 about of equal caliber, and developing slow- 

 ly, rather than rushing work. Yale is woe- 

 fully weak in the box and only fairly good 

 in batting, with a good fielding team. In 

 batting they have not yet struck a gait. Penn- 

 sylvania is weak in everything. Cornell and 

 Columbia are more or less dark horses, 

 still uncertain. Of the smaller colleges, La- 

 fayette promises best on the strength of her 

 good record in the South. Th? caliber of 



the teams she played is undetermined, how- 

 ever. 



Fordham looks to have a very strong team. 

 So does Manhattan. Georgetown is prob- 

 ably under average, and Holy Cross not so 

 strong as last year. The late opening of the 

 New England season makes it impossible to 

 judge of the strength of the various teams. 

 They start with the perennial college base- 

 ball prospects — "unusually bright." 



Virginia in the South appears to be either 

 strong or in unusually good form for the 

 early date. The West is getting under way 

 very slowly. 



HARVARD ROWS CORNELL. 



In its beneficial effects on college athletics 

 in general it is difficult to overrate the im- 

 portance of the decision of the Harvard au- 

 thorities to row a 'varsity race with Cornell 

 on the Charles on May 27. This action is the 

 logical sequence of the annual second crew 

 race arranged by the Cambridge and Ithaca 

 •colleges two years ago, which threatened for 

 a time to involve intercollegiate rowing in an 

 all-around quarrel that would have been as 

 unseemly as it would have been regrettable. 

 It is safe to say that that danger is passed, 

 for, while Yale may not look on the new ar- 

 rangement with satisfaction, it is sure that 

 all other sporting men welcome it. 



Yale has been accustomed to regard the 

 right to meet Harvard on the water as in- 

 alienably hers. Taking on Cornell, looks like 

 an invasion of the Blue's prerogatives. Time 

 doubtless will bring her to see that the gen- 

 eral good quite overbalances her personal 

 loss and she will probably look on the race 

 in the end with favor. 



That it will in any way affect the Yale- 

 Llarvard race a month later is ridiculous. 

 Even though Cornell should badly defeat 

 Harvard and the other colleges at Pough- 

 keepsie badly defeat Cornell, it will not lessen 

 for Yale men the interest in the New Lon- 

 don event. Yale has all along maintained 

 that her desire was to meet Harvard alone — 

 that she did not care to test the strength of 

 the other crews and was not concerned with 

 the question of a college championship. Cer- 

 tainly this race cannot affect that attitude if 

 it was sincere and Yale has no right to ob- 

 ject that her big race is dwarfed in import- 

 ance by the superiority of Cornell — if demon- 

 strated. 



YALE ON THE HUDSON. 



Most rowing men have known for years 

 that Cornell has been stronger on the water 

 than Harvard, and that most of the other 

 crews rowing at Poughkeepsie were as well. 

 This knowledge has not lessened Yale's satis- 

 faction in her annual victories on the Thames. 

 If her glory is lessened by the demonstration 

 of the fact that her opponent is inferior, she 

 should not complain. Premiership can only 



