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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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