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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY ~ The Two Crews. Since the Easter © recess, Weather has given the Yale Crews a chance to take a few long rows on the harbor and try out some of the things they have been learning. These rows have shown that the men are well to- gether and seem to have grasped thor- oughly the fundamentals of the stroke. The time is equally divided now be- tween the first and second Crews—three days a week each—in pair-oar work be- fore the men get into a shell. Control of the slides on the catch and finish is the particular thing now being taught by Dr. Gallaudet. Cameron has again been moved to stroke in the first boat, and is doing first rate work there. The rest of the boat is: Bow, Atkinson; 2, Mitchell; 3, Niedecken; 4, Wickes; 5, Auchincloss; 6, Capt. Allen; 7, Blag- den. The second boat, which has a race with Annapolis, on the Severn, Saturday, May 5, 1s rowing as follows: Bow, Minor; 2, Warmoth; 3, Hooker; 4, Kunzig; 5, Newport; 6, Brock; 7, Cross; 8, Wil- liams. The stroke here is still low— about twenty-six—but the coaches ex- pect to raise it six points in the next ten days, which will mean thirty-four to the minute in the race. Annapolis is being coached by E. H. ~TenEyck, American single-scull champion, and is reported to be very fast. hn, > Si oe el Weld Ciub Launch “« Veritas,” The new launch, "Werltas,” a git irom Mr. George W. Weld, Harvard 60, to the Weld Boat Club of Harvard for coaching purposes, was delivered to the officers of the Club April 12, The boat, which was built by Seabury & Cos, ‘at Morris Heights, N. Y., is 51 feet in ength over all, with 7 feet Q inches seam. The boat has a square stern, with umbers and frame of selected white oak, and planking of white cedar in two thicknesses. Both cockpits are finished ‘n white ash and in every particular the aunch is suited to the purpose for which * was designed. The propelling force ‘s from a Seabury patent safety water iube boiler of about 100 horse power, and a Seabury triple-expansion condens- mg engine of 75 horse power, which were together guaranteed to carry her ‘4 knots an hour. On her trial] trip n New York Harbor, April 7, she sxceeded that speed by two knots an i0ur. > <> Le A Re eS Poughkeepsic Regatta, At a meeting of the Board of Stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Associa- ion held in New York April 6, it was iecided to hold the regatta at Pough- seepsie, on the Hudson, June 30, two lays after the Yale-Harvard race at New London. Three races will be rowed—the Freshman at 4 Pp. M., dis- ‘tance two miles; the University four- seared, 5 P. M., distance two miles and. the University race an hour later, dis- ‘tance four miles. Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin and Columbia will enter crews in the University race. Richard Armstrong, Yale ’95 S., has been chosen Referee for all the races. A perpetual challenge cup has been offered for the University fours, by Davidson Kennedy, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. <> >» Golf Team Wins Match. The Yale Golf Team played their first game of the season Saturday, April 21, with the Hartford Golf Club, on the latter's links, and won by the score of 6 to 4, playing a very strong game ex- cept on the putting greens. This team represented Yale: T. L. Cheney, 1901; LL. P. Myers, 1900 S.; P. Cheney, IQOI ; C. D. Barnes, 1902; G. Hull, 1902, and C. Hitchcock, 1903.. T. L. Cheney won 3 of the holes, P. Cheney 2, and Hull 1. ae The newly formed Pittsburg Club, composed of a score or more undergrad- ates, whose homes are in or near Pitts- burg, Pa., held its first smoker Wednes- day evening, April 4. The following are the officers: President, Howard C. Heinz, 1900; Vice-President, Norman Huselton, 1900S.; Secretary, John S. McKelvey, 1902; Treasurer, Thomas A. McGinley, 1901 S calmer - Spring Football. The Yale Spring football practice be- gan at the Field Thursday afternoon, April 19, with about thirty men in play- ing clothes. The work so far has been light, consisting, chiefly, in punting and catching for the backs, and starting for the line men, the coaching being done by Captain Brown, 1901; M. L. Mc- Bride, 1900, and H. L. Williams, ’or. Two or more teams will be formed this week, if the weather permits, and short halves played. Spring practice has been going on at Harvard and Princeton for more than three weeks, their calls for candidates being made early in April. Captain Daly at Harvard, has had two teams playing against each other, almost daily, for the last two weeks, some of the matches being hotly contested, and several of the men have been injured slightly. From the interest entirely un- precedented, stirred up there, it would appear that Harvard will have more candidates for her team next Fall than she can conveniently handle. At Princeton the work has been light, and the coaching put on the individuals rather than on the team as a whole. A great deal of ‘attention is being paid to drop-kicking and punting. Alexander Moffatt, Princeton ’84, and several other graduates have been with Captain Pell a portion of the time. >= A ati Cornell Football Plans. The Cornell Football Committee have made the following announcement about next Fall’s plans: “Captain Starbuck will be head coach and will be assisted by Mr. Percy Haughton, of Harvard. Mr. F. S. Porter, of Cornell, who played on the team in ’97, ’98, and ’99 and who managed the ’99 team and coached the second team last year, will also be present throughout the season. Mr. Porter’s engagement has been officially approved by the Athletic Council and the representatives of the alumni associa- tions. It was entered into with the idea of returning as soon as feasible to the system of Cornell coaching for Cornell football teams.” The Cornell football schedule is as follows: September 26, Colgate Uni- versity at Ithaca; September 29, Syra- cuse University at Ithaca; October 3, University of Rochester at Ithaca; October 6, Bucknell University at Ithaca; October 13, Washington and Jefferson at Ithaca; October 20, Union College at Ithaca; October 27, Dart- mouth College at Ithaca; November 3, Princeton at Princeton; November 10, Oberlin College at Ithaca; November 17, Lafayette at Easton; November 24, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute at Ithaca; November 29, Thanksgiving Day, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Ly >» a a Yale Point Winners at Prinee- ton, The eleventh annual open handicap games of Princeton were held Satur- day, April 21 at Princeton, with a very large list of entries. Yale was repre- sented in the weight events only. Every event was contested closely, but no rec- ords were broken. In the 16-lb. ham- mer, George S. Stillman, 1901, with a throw of 137 feet 4 feet, took first place and A. V. Gude, 1900S., third place. F. G. Beck, 1903 M.S., won third place in the shot put. Be et Athletic Notes. W. EE. Minor, Manager of the Uni- versity Bicycle Association, has arranged with Columbia for a dual bicycle meet in New Haven, Saturday, May 19. The intercollegiate meet will be held in Phila- delphia, June 2. At this writing it looks as though Yale would be able to put a very fast set of riders on the track by the latter date. Captain E. A. Strong, 1900 S. has had the assistance of George H. Collett in his development of the men. Norman H. Mason, 1902, Manager of the Freshman Crew of. that year, has made his report of receipts and ex- penditures for the season’s’ training. The report shows that the total income was $2,058.54 of which $1,710.50 was subscribed. The Freshman Football Association handed in $203.19. In the expenses, the training-table heads the list, having cost $519.40; New London expenses are put at $718.02; uniforms, $333.80; oars and slides, $154.05; street car tickets, $80, and fess, dental outlays left but $1.77 in the treasury. At a recent meeting of the Intercol- legiate Gymnastic Association in New York, the officers elected for the com- ing year were: President, E. L. Eliason, Yale 1901; Vice-President, J. P. Jones, _ Harvard; Secretary, E. Y. Junior, Hav- _erford; Treasurer, John Aiken, Prince- ton; Executive Committee, L. F, Katzenback, Princeton; E. L. Eliason, Yale; B. H. Belcher, New York Uni- versity; Charles Eastmond, Columbia; Wi: 1 Stare, Harvara Princeton has finally decided to send ten athletes to represent her at the Olympian games at Paris this Summer, and passage has already been secured for the men on the steamer “St. Louis,” which sails from New York, June 13. The team will go direct to Paris and begin training in one of the suburbs. It is quite probable that several of the Princeton athletes will be entered in the English open championship games in London, July 7. The team will not be picked until after the Intercollegiate game in New York, May 2s. Athletic Lead of Cambridge Over Oxford, [London Daily Mail.] Does Oxford beat Cambridge, or does Cambridge Oxford in the long run? The answer to these questions was only arrived at by diligent probing of old records and pertinent questioning of many unwilling honorary secretaries. From the subjoined table of 500 of the principal inter-’varsity contests it will be seen that Cambridge rather easily comes out top of the poll, having the sub- stantial majority of fifty-eight wins over Oxford. The list does not include one or two annual fixtures such as hare- and-hounds, hockey, and other matches, either because complete records have not been kept or because they are not obtainable. However, it was thought that 500 matches would form a very reasonable basis for calculating the average merits of the two great rivals. This is proved to be substantially cor- rect, for even if we include all the events, some of which have only been instituted in tecent years, we find that Cambridge is still well to the fore. Thus the record for the last nine years, including all the contests which have been participated in, shows that Cam- bridge has eighteen more victories to her credit than her opponent. The sum- mary is as follows: Returns from 1891 to 1899 inclusive: Number of events, 195; Oxford, 85 wins; Cambridge, 103 wins; seven drawn. Here is the net total result of 500 inter-’varsity contests. The results given are from the first recorded contests in the respective events to the beginning of I900: Number of Oxford Camb. EVENT. Contest. Won. Won. Drawn. Bont Race os oes. 56 32 23 I ACMGiICS oe ee 36 15 19 2 Crigihet org se Soe: 65 29 3a 4 Rugby Football ._.._. 27 10 10 7 Association Football . 26 10 15 1 Lawn Tennis (doubles) 18 4 14 — Lawn Tennis (singles) 18 5 13 _ Tennis (doubles) ___... 41 13 28 — Tennis (singles)__..._. 4I II 30 — Rackets (doubles). ._.-. 42 19 23 _ Rackets (singles) ._._. 42 19 22 I Ol on Seca 20 8 II I WHINE oo oS 8 2 5 I Team Swimming -.._. 3 3 7s sor Water Polo...: >. 9 6 3 — CBC8S osc ost 9 17 I Billiards (doubles).._. 33 18 15 —_ Billiards (singles) _.__- 33 2I 12 ==: - Grand Totals____- 545 234 292 19 Majority for Cambridge, 58 wins over Oxford’s total. Apart from a very creditable lead of nine victories out of fifty-six boat races, Oxford, it will be observed, does not apparently shine at the other sports, except, perhaps, in the water. * * * The conclusion is clear and may be best set forth in one short sentence: Cambridge shows a decided superiority over Oxford at outdoor pastimes in general. Whether Cambridge possesses better facilities for sport than Oxford; whether pastimes are less cultivated and en- couraged by the Isis than the Cam, are matters that do not concern this article. Having merely presented some well- authenticated figures, it shall be left to others to theorise. $60; Tne The Yale Buildings Aga To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI KLY: Sir: Several weeks ago there was an article in your paper strongly condemn- ing the proposed plans for an Alumni Hall. I have been waiting to see whether they would provoke any answer. So far there seems to have been none. This seems to show that the project is dead. I am glad of it, for a building on the plans proposed would have been very unsatisfactory. For twenty years I have been priding myself on the de- velopment of architecture in our coun- try. Alone of all the Atlantic nations we had developed a style of architecture eminently suited to our requirements, except that in England very recently a style has been introduced apparently de- rived from ours, though possibly of in- dependent origin, for both of them are plainly traceable back to the perpendicu- lar Gothic in their distinctive features. It was a source of much grief to Viollet-le-duc, unquestionably the great- est European architect of this century, that there seemed to be no distinctive styles of architecture left in Europe, and nothing but imitations of classical or pseudo-classical models. : The designs of Carreré & Hastings entirely abandon our distinctive style and seem to be but an imitation of an imitation. They are apparently based on the imitation by Mansard and his con- temporaries of Roman monuments, and seem to be very much in general of the same degree of architectural ability as those masterpieces of high civilization, the Statehouses of Kentucky and Mis- sissippi, built before the war. In the detail of these designs of Carreré & Hastings, the most conspicu- ous feature is the very heavy accentua- tion of the joints in the masonry. The strongly projecting face of the masonry beyond the line of the joint, is a device appropriately adopted in some cases to indicate that the thickness of the wall is so great that this projection might be looked upon as a trifle; but when this is applied to the mere housing of a va- cant hall, where no greater strength is requisite than is sufficient to bear a roof, can anything be much more inappro- priate? In the case of the French palaces, from which this is imitated, it was different; for in all of these the security of a very heavy wall for protect- ing the inhabitants from a mob, was a feature well worth preserving, even in its counterfeit presentment. It is to be hoped, however, that it will be long be- fore the population of New Haven will be so exasperated against the University as to make any such barrier of import- ance. The old brick row, from the stand- point of a student of architecture, would be more satisfactory in its perfect plain- ness than this pretentious sham. I am very glad to see that there seems a chance that at least South Middle will be retained out of the old brick row. I think no one as yet has called atten- tion to the value of these buildings as foils. The beauty of Vanderbilt be- comes much more evident as compared with these, and they have a color value as well, which it will be hard to repro- duce. These old brick have taken a tone which modern brick seldom have, and give, to my mind, a very valuable component to the color harmony of the Campus. N. T. Bacon. Peace’ Dale, R.-F, April £3) 1960: a ae The TenkEyeck Awarded. To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY: Sir: One of the regrets of my life is that I am not a graduate of Yale. Such being the case, I don’t know that I have a right to criticise the decisions of those who have that honor and advantage. Though not a graduate, there are few, if any, who fee! a greater interest in the University. I was so pleased to read your article on “The TenEyck” that I wanted you to know what one of the people thought. With you, I can- not see why there should be any more hesitation in a criticism of public speakers, than a criticism of rowers or football players. Without speaking to any one, I thought the prize belonged to Keppel- man, and my “thought” was strength- ened, after I came out of the hall, by an old graduate of some thirty years, who said, “unquestionably Keppelman will get the prize.” I don’t know “what the prize is given for,” but I think some- times sentiment has much to do with its award. I remember a case where the
