YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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TRACK TEAM OFFICERS te
E. C. Perkins, Captain.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.”
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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.
