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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY 3 TRACK TEAM OFFICERS te E. C. Perkins, Captain. | | | : Photograph by Pach. I. N. Swift, Manager. CHANGE IN TRACK GAMES. A Criticism of the Runners, Walkers, | Jumpers and Weight Men. It has been announced by Capt. Per- kins during the past week that the dates of the open and closed Track games would be transposed, making the day for the open games April 23, and the day for the regular Spring Track meet, which is for Yale athletes only, on the last day of this month, instead of a week before. Both meets will take place at Yale Field. The first opportunity to judge the real strength of the men will be had next Saturday at the Yale Field. The can- didates have been in trainine since the first part.of February, under the direc- tion of Trainer Keene Fitzpatrick. Much good new material has been de- veloped which it is hoped may do well in the coming games. IN THE SPRINTS. In the hundred yards dash Richards, 1900 S., has shown fast work and will probably be able to run close to ten seconds. Gleason, 1900, is expected to run him a good race. Byers, Hall and Chappell are also fair. Graff in last year’s Dual Games strained a tendon which has handicapped him in his train- ing this year. When in condition he is a fast sprinter. These same men will run also in the 220 yards dash. Luce, 1900, who, materially sacri- ficed his own chances for winning by acting as pace-maker in the quarter- mile run last year, is repeating his good work. Fisher, ’98S., who ran second in the. Harvard games of 1897. is suffer- ing from a strained tendon and will not be up to his usual form. W. John- son, 799; Cheney, 1900, and Warren, ‘99 S., are fair men in this event; Ord- way, 1900, is also entered, but his spe- cialty is the half mile. In he half mile run Ordway 1s by far the best man training for this event. He. never ran before en- tering College and consequently lacks the experience which comes from many races. Richardson, 1901, who_ was prominent in track athletics in Andover, being Captain of the Track Team there last year, is expected to give a good account of himself in this event. He is running now in about 2.02. Atha, ‘98 S., and Poynter, 1900, are likely men. THE MILE RUN. _ The winner of the mile run in the Dual Games with Harvard, Speer, 1900, has not regained his form so far this Spring. Buckingham, ’98S.; Wood- ruff, ’99; Spitzer, ’99; Palmer, ’99S., are the most promising of the other candidates. In the hurdle events, Perkins, ’08, the Intercollegiate Champion, will be running in championship form. Van Beuren, ’98, and Peters, 1900S., are doing .very good work. Berger, ’99; Cady, 1901, and Fewsmith, ’98, are com- peting for the fourth position on the team in the Dual Games with Harvard to be held on May 4th. Of the four, Berger shows up the best at present. Butler, 1900, is the fastest walker in College, Adams, 1900, is a close se- cond. Hitchcock is also doing well. This event will not be contested in the Dual Games this year, but will be in- cluded in the Intercollegiate as usual. WEAK IN FIELD EVENTS. The Yale Team is weakest in the field events. Chadwick, who throws the hammer, will be only able to compete in the Harvard games, being debarred from the Intercollegiate by the four- year rule. He is now throwing about 144 feet. Sutphin, ’09S., is a new man who is doing fairly well. O’Donnell, M.S., will be able to put the shot about 40 feet, which is very good for stich a light man. The next best men are: Francis, 1900; Sutphin, ’99 S.; Ab- bott, ’99, and Robertson, 1900. The broad jump will be cared for by Cheney, ’98, who won first in the Har- vard Games last year, and Weston, ‘98 S., who won second in the same games. They will be closely followed by Peters, 1900 S., who has been mentioned above as a hurdler. In the high jump Waller, ’o99S., who was ineligible last year coming as he did from the University of Wiscon- sin, is jumping particularly well, having cleared in outdoor practice 6 feet 2 inches. Taintor, 1901, is good for about 5 feet 11 inches. Dudley, who is en- tered for this as well as the pole vault, suffers under the disadvantage of a strained tendon. Among the surprises in the training of the team is the pole vaulting of Clapp, ’99S., who, by his hard work has succeeded in clearing 11 feet 2 inches this early in the season. This is better than any performance of B. Johnson, 1900, this year, the Intercol- legiate Champion. Johnson, however, has been in training for this event only two weeks, and is expected to show his last year’s form before the last games. His record is 11 feet 354 inches. Selin, ’98, who was second in the Harvard games last year, is now doing as well as Johnson. Two Academic Freshmen, Rowland and Hurd, are vaulting in good form. The squad will be cut down con- siderably after the games on Saturday, when the team which will take part in the Dual Meet will practically be se- lected. Lp <> a a Arthur S. Goodwin, formerly a mem- ber of the Class Nineteen Hundred who caught on last year’s Yale Nine and was half-back on the team in the Fall of 1805, has left College and taken a position with the Fidelity Security Co., 29 Wall street, New York City. HARD BICYCLE WORKERS. The Squad Should Do Well—Under Some Disadvantages. About thirty men began work with the. bicycle team the latter part of January, taking short runs and light body work in the Gymnasium. This was kept up until March, when the team went on the roads. A fine level stretch over a mile long has been found on Dixwell ave. The daily work con- sists of distance riding varied with short sprints. On muddy days the team uses the asphalt on Chapel st. for sprinting. _ The track at the Field has not been in condition for use as yet, but it is hoped it will be ready for use by Mon- day. This is three weeks later than it is customary for the team to leave the roads for the track. A new departure this year is to have no races upon the track at the Field, but merely to train there and go down to the cement track in Bridgeport for fast work and racing. It is now in- tended to go to Bridgeport at least twice a week, beginning April 27. The team will enter all the race meets held around New York and vicinity during April and May, in order to give the members, especially the new men, track experi- ence. | : The first meet entered will be that given by the Berkeley School at Berkeley Oval, April 23; these races will be open to college riders only, and as they will be held on the track where the [ntercollegiates will be held and the entire Columbia team will ride, they will give very valuable experience. THE OUTLOOK. The outlook of the team seems very bright. The men are in better condi- tion and riding faster than at this time last year, and the team is almost cer- tain to repeat last year’s performance and shut out. Harvard in the dual games. In the Intercollegiates the team ex- pects to make a creditable showing. Yale is working against great odds in © competing with the Columbia team, practically unchanged from last year, when it won 34 out of a possible. 40 points, and which is under the care of a special trainer and with exceptional track facilities. The team, however, realizes what it has to accomplish, and is working with a will, the great danger being overtraining owing to lack of rubbing and a special trainer. L. TWEEDY, 99, CAPTAIN BICYCLE TEAM. A very encouraging feature is the large number of very promising Fresh- men riders, assuring a good outlook for future years. These men are all so good and so evenly matched that there are still eighteen on the squad. SOME OF THE RIDERS. L. Tweedy, ’o9, Captain, won the Fall games and third place in Princeton games in 1896, and first place in the Harvard games last Spring. W. M. McCutcheon, 1900, did a good deal of riding before coming to Yale and won third place in the one quar- ter mile Intercollegiate last year. en R. B. Howard, 98S., won second place in closed games last Spring. _ J. T. Anderson, ’98S., has been rac- ing during his whole course and with J. T. Walker, ’09 S., won third place in the Intercollegiate Tandem Race. y. 4, Strons, 1000 S., 1s a very promising new man, having ridden for Hartford High School. F. H. Russell, 1900, won the Fall games this year. oP Gilbert, 1001, has raced con- siderably before coming to College. E. L. Hutchinson, 19or, is especially good at long distances. Other candi- dates are: J. G. Parsons, 1900S.; W. L. Ehrich, ’99 S.; R. D. Kaime, 1990 S.; H. C. Heinz, 1900; C, T. Bascom i900 5.5 J. M. Watts, 1900 S.; J. H. Wear, ei; YT Anderson: 69 S.; 1. T Jaques, 1900 S. | Lectures by Dr. Gardner. Professor Percy Gardner, Litt. D., of the University of Oxford, lectured on “Greek Portraits’ on Saturday evening, April 16, before the newly formed New Haven Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, in the South Gallery of the Art School. Before the lecture, Professor Perrin, one of the Vice-Presidents of the So- ciety, made a statement with regard to the aims and work of the Archaeologi- cal Institute: The lecturer was intro- duced by President Dwight, who has accepted the Presidency. of the local society. ; Professor Gardner was a Cambridge scholar, but was called in 1887 to fill the Lincoln and Merton Professorship of Archaeology and Art in the Univer- sity of Oxford. Some of his most im- portant works had been: “‘Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias”’; a volume entitled “New Chapters in Greek His- tory,” a large book on Greek Grave Re- liefs, and in connection with Mr. Jevons, a manual of Greek antiquities. He is considered to be the greatest British archaeologist, and has come to this country primarily to lecture before the societies of the Archaeological In- stitute, but will give a few lectures be- fore Universities. : On Tuesday evening, April 19, Dr. Gardner gave a University lecture in the Art School on “Archaeology in Relation to History.” +. <a Ay eat The Yale Art School. The work at the Yale School. of Fine Arts this year has been progress- ing about the same as_ heretofore, modified, of course, by several new and different lectures and talks aside from the curriculum. Professor J. M. Hop- pin has lately completed an excellent series of seven lectures on “Italian Painting of the 14th and 15th centuries in Northern Central Italy,” and three lectures on the “English School of Painting.’ The course, the object of which was to illustrate the lesser known painters of those schools, was open to the entire University, and was very largely attended. An innovation just introduced by Professor Weir is that of having out- side artists criticise the work of the - Composition class on alternate weeks during the year. The benefit to the | pupils of the criticism of men working professionally in New York and oc- cupying positions of high authority is quite obvious. Mr. J. H. Twachtman, the impressionist painter and instructor | at the Art Students League, New York, | gave a short talk on this subject on Wednesday last. Mr. J. Alden Weir, a prominent artist and brother of Pro- fessor Weir, will lecture shortly, and other men later on. | Mr. G. A. Thompson, a graduate of the School, and who has been studying in Paris for three years since gradua- tion, returned to America last Novem- ber and is now working in the Art School. Mr. Thompson brought back with him a number of interesting pic- tures and has been invited to give an ex- hibition of them early in June at the Graduates Club. All the departments and classes are engaged in the regular work. The total number of students is 78, of which 56 are professional, and 22 elective pupils. One hundred and eighty-six students of this year’s Freshman class in the Sheffield Scientific School have taken the special course in free hand drawing. At the end of the School year an ex- hibition of the work of the various classes of pupils will be held, con- tinuing open through the Summer.
