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NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1899.
Prick Tren Cenrs.
DUAL GAMES FORECAST,
Probable Point Winners in the Meet
with Harvard.
A close survey of recent performance
by the men composing the Harvard and
Yale Track Teams makes it possible to
present a forecast of the probable out-
come of the Dual Games which will be
held in New Haven, May 13. The
Yale athletes will have the advantage
of competing before a Yale crowd and
on a familiar track, factors of considera-
ble importance, as has been shown by
the outcome of recent meets. 3
From present indications the result
promises to be close, with the chances
slightly in favor of Harvard. The events
in which Yale may be expected to show
especial strength are, in general, the
two-hundred and twenty yard dash, the
half-mile run, the mile run, and the
pole vault. Harvard’s chief strength
will lie in the hurdle races, the jumps
and in the hammer throw, while the
results of the hundred yards dash, the
shot put and the quarter mile run are
doubtiul.
THE INDIVIDUAL EVENTS.
The outcome of the hundred yards
dash is extremely doubtful as stated
above, for each College will be repre-
sented by fast men,—Yale by Blount,
Warren and Fisher among others, and
Harvard by Quinlan, Roche and
Greene. The race should- be won in
ten seconds, with Blount, Quinlan and
Roche likely point winners.
Boardman of Yale is justly regarded
as the probable winner of the two hun-
dred and twenty yard dash, but Quin-
lan of Harvard may be expected to
push Gleason and Fisher of Yale for
one of the other places.
The race of the meet promises to be
the quarter mile run. Up to ten days
ago Burke of Harvard was looked
upon as a sure winner, but the recent
performance of Boardman, the Yale
Freshman, justifies the opinion that he
stands an even chance with Harvard’s
famous runner, as in two recent com-
petitions he has covered the distance
in 49% and 4934 seconds respectively.
Third place should go to a Yale man,
probably Fisher. 3
A FAST QUINTET.
Adams, Thomas, Poynter, Scudder
and Brennan constitute the fastest quin-
tet of half-milers which has ever repre-
sented an American College. All are
expected to do this distance in two.
minutes, but Burke of Harvard, must
be considered as a factor in this race
also, and Yale can not count on more
than two places.
Spitzer, Smith and Clyde will be
Yale’s strongest representatives in the
mile run, and should take first place
and second or third, the other going to
Clark of Harvard, if his college scores
in the event.
HURDLES TO HARVARD.
Fox and Hallowell are counted on to
win first and second places in the high
hurdles for Harvard. Fincke of Yale,
however, should win the one point
place from Goddard of Harvard.
Harvard promises to win all three
places in the long hurdle race, as
_ Morse, Converse and Hallowell are all
good men and Yale is especially weak
in this event. : :
Yale’s: deficiency in the preceding
event will be made good by her mar-
velous strength in the pole vault.
Clapp, Johnson and Selin have all
crossed the bar at eleven feet three
inches, a foot higher than Harvard’s
best vault this Spring, and may be ex-
pected to score in the order named.
Waller’s experience with the Rough
Riders seems to have seriously affected
his ability as a high jumper. If he
rounds into form within the next ten
days he may be counted ‘on as a point
winner in his event. Otherwise ‘the
places will go to Rice, Morse and Ellis
of Harvard. ae
Daly, Harrison, Ristine, Edgell and
Morse are five Harvard broad jumpers
who have done better than Yale’s repre-
sentatives in the event this year, and
they may be expected to win the eight
points, though Yale may possibly pro-
duce a placed man before the meet.
IN THE WEIGHT EVENTS.
Ellis of Harvard or Francis of Yale.
will win the shot put, and the contest
between these two men promises to be
a close one. Brown of Harvard should
win third place, though Robertson of
Yale may score. ;
Boal, Clark and Ellis of Harvard are
all credited with distances in the ham-
mer throw, greater than any recorded
in New Haven this Spring, but if Still-
man of the College Crew competes,.
Yale may secure a place.
Yale may thus be expected to score
heavily in the flat races and the pole
vault, with the shot put doubtful, but
Harvard’s sweeping scores in the hur-
dies, the jumps and hammer throw will
give her an advantage, which promises
to be hard to overcome.
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THE EMILY SANFORD PROFESSOR.
Prof. Charlton Miner Lewis,
286, Chosen.
Yale
On Thursday night of last week,
April 27, the Yale Corporation an-
nounced the choice of Professor Charl-
ton Miner Lewis as the first Emily
Sanford Professor of English Literature
at Yale. The Corporation, at its last
meeting in April, had come to an agree-
ment on the main points and had then
referred the matter of final settlement
of the open question in the English
Department to a sub-committee with
power to act. The Faculty then met
at a special session and transmitted its
conclusions to the sub-committee, and
that committee acted at once, as an-
nounced above.
The action in this matter was taken
at. the last with considerable abrupt-
ness, aS it appeared from the outside.
This chair, as the readers of the
WEEKLY know, was endowed by the
will of the Hon. E. C. Billings in
memory of his wife, who was Miss
Emily ‘Sanford of New Haven. The
gift of $70,000 was made in his will, and
his death occurred December 1, 1893.
No appointment had been made to
this chair until that of Professor Lewis.
The failure of the authorities of Yale
to act has been the subject of a great
deal of comment and criticism, and
those in power here have admitted that
it had always been a perplexing ques-
tion. There had been talk of various
candidates from time to time, and it is
probably true that one or two elderly
men of national reputation have been
informally approached in the matter.
That the position, however, has been
offered to a long string of literary men,
as some of the papers ‘have indicated,
has no foundation in fact.
There has been from the first an ex-
treme solicitude to be as nearly as pos-
sible exactly right in making this
choice. The chair was a conspicuous
and an important one; the English De-
partment was in its formative state and
much in the public eye; the value of
a good man in the -position, it was
felt, would be tremendous, and the in-
jury from a wrong choice would be al-
most irreparable.
PROF. CHARLTON MINER LEWIS.
Many, besides, had the feeling that
the chair should be, if possible, filled
by a young man, whose full life was
before him for the service of the Uni-
versity, and whose appointment would
be an encouragement and inspiration to
all the younger men on the University
staff. President Dwight made the point
nearly two years ago in his report, in
regard to the appointment to professor-
ships, that young men ought, on general
principles, to be chosen where possible,
and pleaded against the plan of waiting
until a candidate was into or beyond
middle life before letting him know
whether or not his life’s work could be
carried out as he had intended.
All these facts when considered make
the appointment seem quite in the order
of things, but the news first came as
a surprise and almost as a sensation.
It was not generally known that action
was about to be taken by the powers,
and the choice of a man who had been
so comparatively short a time in the
service of the University added to the
exceptional interest and _ surprise.
Again, an important fact was over-
looked, to wit: That Professor Lewis
was the oldest of the younger wing of
the English staff in the Academic De-
partment. Although he has been com-
paratively a short time in teaching, his
mind and temperament have always
been distinctly that of the scholar, and
he has always shown a decided trend
towards literary work and study.
APPOINTMENT APPROVED.
The appointment is emphatically a
success. In this verdict undergraduates
join with graduates. The appointee has
first of all the respect of his colleagues
as a scholar and respect of his students
as a man, and. as a.teacher, of
nice discrimination, of originality and
thoroughness. Having been for less
than five years in the pursuit of letters,
he has not a long record in book-mak-
ing. His most ambitious work, the
thesis on which he was given his doc-
tors degree last June, “Foreign
Sources of English Versification,”’ has
received very favorable comment from
scholars in Europe. and America,
among others from Professor Beljame
of the Faculty of Letters at Paris, the.
well-known author of Le. Public et les
Hommes de Lettres, en Angleterre.
Not only does Prof. Lewis display ful-
ness of knowledge, but he has treated a
perplexed and difficult subject with ad- :
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WON ALL THREE.
Vale’s Relay Racers? Fine Work at
U. of P. Meet.
Yale won an overwhelming victory at
the annual carnival of relay races, held
at Philadelphia on Saturday, April 20,
under the auspices of the University of |
Pennsylvania. Yale finished first in the
one mile, two mile and four mile relay
races for the American championship, |
and Fe Warren, ’99S., won first
place in the 220 yard dash, and secured
third in the 120 yards special.
In the two mile relay race, Poynter
took the lead from the very start and
finished fifty yards ahead of Gillender
of Pennsylvania. Scudder and Brennan
increased Yale’s lead to. one hundred
yards, and Adams added fifty more,
thus winning the race for Yale by about
a hundred and fifty yards.
The four mile race again demon-
strated the great superiority of the Yale
runners, who finished three hundred
yards in advance of the University of
Pennsylvania. :
The mile race was the event of the
day and although Yale was hard pressed
throughout, only once did Pennsylvania
obtain the lead. Yale, University of
Chicago and University of Pennsylvania
were the three teams entered, but at
no time during the race was Chicago
a factor. Gleason finished the first re-
lay five yards in advance of Pennsyl-
vania. Luce ran a beautiful race against
Kraenzlein, who passed him at about
two hundred yards from the start, and
maintained his lead until the head of
the stretch, when the Yale runner, who
had shown excellent judgment of pace
throughout, passed his opponent and
finished with an eight yard lead,
Kraenzlein falling exhausted before he
reached the tape. Captain Fisher then
took up the race for Yale and finished
strongly, giving Boardman, who was
Yale’s last runner, a lead of about ten
yards. Tewkesbury, who had Pennsyl-
vania’s last relay, gained five yards dur-
ing the first half of the lap, but mis-
judged his pace and finished fifteen
yards behind Boardman, who ran in the
remarkably fast time of 4934 seconds.
Yale’s victories were due to the ex-
cellent condition of the men. together
with the wonderful judgment with which
each maintained his pace. The two
and four mile races were easily won and
the men were not hard pushed. The
two mile race was run in 8 minutes and
Io seconds, twelve seconds faster than
the American amateur record, and the
four mile race in 18 minutes and 39 sec-
onds, about a minute faster than any
previous record.
The members of the Yale teams and
the time in which each ran are as fol-
lows:
One mile team:
€.4).. Gleason, >19007 . 7... 2.4... 523% Ss.
Oe) ee oy ES Os re ey . 51% S.
Po dR, ieee, 700... ae ee ae A ae
Ll). Boardman. 10025. i... 403 S.
3m. 244% s.
Two mile team: .
H. M. Poynter, 1900....2m. 2% Ss.
De SOOT OBS ad ce, 2m. 2344's.
W. D. Brennan, 1900S. .2m. 2% s.
J}; Be RAGS 4600.0: , cee 2m. 24s.
8m. 10S.
Four mile team: .
tReet SS ii. ee aS
S. B. Chittenden, 1902 ...4 m. 42S.
3ac 2 OM, 19000; 6, nies 4m. 45S.
CBs Spitzer ,’99-..26005- 4m. 34S.
18 m. 39S.