THE TRIP
And the Stay at Brighton—The Party
and ** Heelers.”
(Ay Preston Kumler, the Staff Correspondent of
ALUMNI WEEKLY.)
Lonpon, July 24, 1899.
On Wednesday, July 5, as the Ameri-
can liner Saint Louis drew away from
her New York dock, there: came back
~ across the water, from a little group
gathered about the forward rail, a
significant cheer, announcing the real
opening of a new chapter in the ath-
letic history of Yale and Harvard. It
was the famous Greek yell of Yale with
“Harvard” as the climax.
This novel cheer and its echo from a
crowd of students and graduates of the
two umiversities, packed on the dock,
enthusiastically responded, combined
with a promiscuous mingling of the
white Y on the blue field and the white
H on the crimson field, meant that
America’s oldest university rivals had
joined hands and were starting across
the Atlantic to help each other meet and
if possible defeat England’s universities,
Oxford and Cambridge, in an athletic
competition on field and track.
The long series of negotiations which
culminated in the departure of this joint
team has already been followed by the
readers of the WEEKLY. But on that
morning the Yale University Athletic
Association and the Harvard University
Athletic Association became the Yale-
Harvard Athletic Association. :
The American athletic party num-
bered twenty-six men, as follows: the
Yale team, Captain T. R. Fisher, 2d,
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splizer, "90; J-2. Adatns: 1960; (8) A.
Blount, 1900; HH, P. Smith, 1600;
Charles Dupee, 1901; William Fincke,
1901 S.; and Dixon Boardman, 1902:
the Harvard team, Captain J..T. Roche,
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brown; 9138. Burke: : Cx “DesDalys
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Hallowell; J. T. Harrington; F. J.
Quinlan; A. N. Rice, and C. F. Rotch.
J. D. Dana, Yale 1900, Manager of the
combined teams, three of the Commit-
tee of Graduate Advisers, Everett J.
Wendell, Harvard ’82; Henry S. Brooks,
Jr., Yale, and George B. Morrison, Har-
vard *83 and the two trainers, J. G.
Lathrop of Harvard and A. F. Copland
of Yale. Mr. C. H. Sherrill; Yale, the
fourth member of the Graduate Commit-
tee, had preceded the team to England.
Walter Camp, Yale ’80, a member of _
the Advisory Committee of the Dual
Track Athletic League, Bascom Johnson
1900, Captain of next year’s Yale team,
and four correspondents accompanied
the athletic party and were with them
during the period of preliminary train-
ing at Brighton. |
A heavy fog detained the Saint Louis
for two hours just outside the Narrows,
but she then proceeded on her way with-
out further interruption. The first few
hours out were devoted to settling in
the state-rooms and writing farewell
letters, to be mailed at Sandy Hook.
Then the fellows came up on deck. A
large block of steamer chairs, well aft
on the port side of the vessel, was
assigned to the Yale and Harvard ath-
letes. This was their rendezvous dur-
ing the week which followed and came
to be popularly known as “the Campus,”
while the section of the rail nearby was
properly called “the fence.” But the
college nomenclature did not stop here,
and there was a consequent disagree-
ment as to whether the saloon, where
the men were served with training dishes
at a special table, was really “Memorial
Hall” or just plain “Commons.”
There were a number of Yale and
Harvard “heelers” on board, graduates
and students, and they combined with
the athletic squad to form a University
crowd to which the men largely con-
fined their association. The passenger
list included the following college men,
in addition to those named above: Yale,
J. B. Adams, ’99; W. F. B. Berger, ’99;
C. M. Fait, “oo; Fe Po Hime, ‘09 S.-
C. J. Freeborn, 99 S.; A. C. Goodyear,
99; W. D. Hickok, ex-’98S.;: H. H.
Hollister, ‘99; W. W. Knight, 0552
T. F. Lawrance, ’99; E. A. McCullough,
‘63 533 B. B. Moore, ’909; E. de N.
Sands, ‘998.; E. N. Saunders, ’99 S.:
Preston Kumler, 1900; George Lauder,
Jr., 1900 S.; L. M. Thomas, 1901: A.
B. Berger, 1901; Henry Chisholm, toor:
E. H. Fisher, 1901 §. ; E. C. Granberry,
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C. L. DuVal, 19003: Harvard,
Lowell,'76; Gillman Colla-
C. C. Goodrich, ’93; N. W.
J. A. Macy, ’o9; W.
1900 and F. R. Du
1902 and
Percival
more, 933_©- ,
Bingham, Jr., 95;
Bayard Cutting,
Bois, I9g0I.
There was 1
work on board, as the ship sports, in
which- the men engaged vigorously
throughout the voyage, served to give
them necessary exercise. Intercollegiate
contests in quoits, shuffle-board, follow-
the-leader and hop scotch, varied with
an occasioned tug of war, wrestling
match or cock-fight, were arranged each
day on the forward deck, and afforded
constant amusement to the athletes and
their fellow-passengers. Baseball too,
was a favorite game during the early
part of the voyage, but after all the
tennis balls had been thrown over the
rail, the Steward became a bit anxious
about his rapidly decreasing supply of
oranges and apples and the sport had to
be discontinued. On the last day out,
some of the men grew a bit restless and
others began to put on weight, so an
hour’s work with the skipping-ropes and
an afternoon run around the decks were
added to the daily routine.
The passage was an uneventful one
but most of the fellows were first-trippers
and took a lively interest in the ships
that were sighted and the whales, por-
poises and dolphins which played about
the vessel. On Sunday morning, divine
service was held in the saloon and Mon-
day night the customary ship-board con-
cert was given. There was considerable
professional talent on board and a very
entertaining program had been arranged.
Mr. Wendell sang a number of Irish
songs and later delivered a brief ad-
dress, explaining the purpose and charac-
ter of the ~ Yale-Harvard team’s
trip to England. He emphasized the
fact that the American universities made
no claim to the championship but were
merely accepting a challenge from Ox-
ford and Cambridge. The evening
closed with cheers and songs by the
college men, which were well received
in spite of the fact that “My poor Ox-
ford and Cambridge” made an awkward
ending for “Here’s to good old Yale.”
With the exception of the extreme
heat of the first three days, which inter-
fered considerably with the rest of the
athletes, quartered on the main deck, the
weather conditions throughout the voy-
age were perfect. A north wind sprang
up on Monday, but, with the change
from shirt sleeves to sweaters which it
brought, came also a perceptible rolling
of the vessel, increasing daily until the
sheltered channel was reached. But all
became accustomed to the ship’s motion
and there were no disagreeable results.
The excellent condition of all the
athletes as they neared the end of their
voyage was the source of great gratifica-
tion to those who had their interests in
charge. The effect of the passage had
been universally feared, and there was
an increasing feeling of relief as each
day passed, until land was finally sighted
and all continued well and fit.
When the men reached deck on the
morning of Wednesday, the seventh day
out, the Saint Louis was well advanced
in her final run along the Southern coast
of England. Shortly after lunch, the
Paris, formerly the Yale, came into
view. A few hours before she had been
floated after her prolonged stranding
on the Lizard, but the Yale colony on
the Saint Louis had not heard the news
and were perceptibly downcast as they
steamed past the vessel in which they
had recently taken such a keen interest,
firmly fixed as they thought in her last
resting place.
ON ENGLISH SOIL.
- At nine o'clock the Saint Louis drew
up alongside her Southampton dock and
the voyage was over. It was decided to
spend the night in Southampton at the
Southwestern Hotel. On the following
morning at ten o’clock the men boarded
the train for Brighton, where they were
comfortably quartered in the Hotel
Métropole, overlooking the channel and
the magnificent ocean drive. The privi-
-leges of Preston Park had been extended
by the Brighton Corporation and it was
there that most of the work was done.
On Saturday and Monday, however, the
athletes journeyed to London and
practiced on the track at the Queen’s
Club grounds, so as to become accus-
tomed to the courses and. the turns.
With the exception of trials to determine
the representatives in the hundred yards
dash, the hurdle race and the broad
_ Jump, all the work was of a very light
little prescribed athletic
interests of the English teams,
character, consisting principally of
practicing starts and short runs at an
easy gait to keep the men in condition.
The struggles for second string in the
hurdles and dash were keen. In three
races over the hurdles, Hallowell: de-
feated Fincke of Yale twice, and won
the place, while Blount and Dupee, both
of Yale, had a similarly close contest,
resulting in favor of the former, to de-
termine who should be Quinlan’s mate
in the dash. Roche of Harvard easily
won his place as second man in the
broad jump, from his college’. mates,
Morse and Harrington. :
On Thursday, the day of the arrival,
the entire party accepted an invitation
from the proprietors of Barnum and
Bailey’s circus and attended the even-
ing performance. Sunday morning
Messrs. A. Hunter and G. C. Vassal,
Presidents of the Cambridge and Ox-
ford teams, and Mr. C. N. Jackson, who,
as graduate adviser, had charge of. the
over to Brighton from Eastbourne,
where they were stopping, and spent the
day with the Americans, joining in an
afternoon drive to Devil’s Dyke. Dur-
ing the course of the day several minor
details in connection with the sports of
the following Saturday were decided.
The relations of the two teams and their
advisers were most cordial and all the
negotiations were conducted without the
slightest friction,
The stay at Brighton was a thoroughly
delightful one, though almost without
event. The men were in bed early and
were kept well under the eyes of their
trainers. As the days passed and the
athletes appeared to remain in good con-
dition, the American colony grew con-
fident; but there was no departure from
the carefully outlined plan of training.
On Saturday, the day of the games,
the Yale-Harvard squad left Brighton
at half-past nine and, arriving in Lon-
don after a comfortable journey, drove
to the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington.
There they took lunch and rested until
three o'clock, when they proceeded to
the Queen’s Club Grounds.
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SOME ENGLISH VIEWS.
Advice to Oxford and Cambridge
Rah Rah Rah Rah Yale
Praeterea nil et vox
Please.don’t copy this Zulu wail
Gz: Ca; Ca Ca Ox.
—London Globe.
American Uniforms,
The Harvard men wear claret-colored
coats, bearing an enormous H in white;
the Yale men go in for dark blue with
an equally colossal Y. The effect is not
beautiful. It suggests somehow _ the
sandwich man of commerce.—The Peli-
can.
A Good Impression.
One of the most interesting athletic
meetings of a strictly amateur character,
ever held, will be the inter-university
contest on Saturday at Queen’s Club,
West Kensington. In this the pick of
Oxford and Cambridge athletes will
Came -
meet the best team which Yale and rat.
vard could send over, and whatever may
be the result, there is certain to be a
thoroughly sportsmanlike contest. In
recent years Yale men have been repre-
sented in England on the running path
and on the river, and have impressed
themselves. so favorably on English
sportsmen that the present team, in
which Yale and Harvard are combined,
is certain to have a very hearty recep-
Poe on Saturday—Eastern Daily Bulle-
in. ere :
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SPANISH WAR RECORD,
More Yale N ames on the List—Total
Since the war record of Yale men in :
the late war was published in the War
Record and Presidential number, a num-
ber of additions and corrections have
been sent in to the WEEKLY, thereby
making a supplementary record. neces-_
sary. The number of those now defi-
nitely located in the service in the late
war is 315. The records follow:
Ex-Seventy-Three.
M. M. McComb, ex-’73, was com-
missioned, on graduation from West
Point, a lieutenant in the 4th U. S.
Artillery. Promoted just before the re-
cent war from a lieutenant to a captain
of Artillery. At first he had command
of one of the light batteries. He has
recently returned from there, having
had command of several batteries.
Seventy-Five S.
William S. Righter, 75 S., was mus-
tered into service as Lieutenant in Com-
pany C, Fourth Regiment, New Jersey
National Guard, Volunteer Infantry,
July 17, 1898, in order to serve as Aid
on the staff of Brigadier-General J. W.
Plume, commanding First Brigade, First
Division, Second Army Corps, at Camp
Alger, with whom he had served, as a
National Guardsman, for the past eigh-
teen years. On July 19, he was ordered
by the War Department to report to
Brigadier-General Plume at Camp Alger
for duty. Reporting the following day,
he remained at Camp Alger, until
Brigade Headquarters was moved to
Camp Meade, Penn. Remained there
until the complete breaking up of the
First Brigade, for mustering out, and
was ordered with Brigadier-General
Plume to return to Newark. He left
the service about November 1, upon_the
honorable discharge of Brigadier-Gen-
eral Plume from service.
Ex-Seventy-Seven.
Major Arthur M. Diggles, ex-’77,
volunteered on the first call for troops
with a Minnesota Regiment with which
he had been long connected. He was at
the time captain of one of the companies.
His promotion to Major and his ser-
vice in the Philippines, ending with his
death early in May, from a wound re-
- ceived in the advance on San Isidro, were
told in the WerExkLy in an _ obituary
sketch in the number of June 14.
Vassall (O.) winning broad jump; Daly and Roche (H.) and
Bevan (C.) watching. :
[By the courtesy of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Co., the English connection of the American
Mutoscope and Biograph Co. These pictures form part of their permanent record of the games. ]
