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Show NO ROOi FOR 118 811118 0ISP0TE Princeton and Cornell Each Claim lOOZ'Ohampionshi) in Baseball. Tribune Spociul Sporting Service. PHTNCETOX. X. J.. Feb. 1. With . jhe publication of tho Trinceton base-ball, base-ball, schedule for tho coming season, it io made apparent that the question of !' the, intercollegiate championship so tains tai-ns fche Big Six nines are concerned will beSolvable on the diamond in 190S. The I announcement that tho Tigers are to I play Cornell will in all likelihood pro- j ! vide a schedule -which will bring all 1 tho teams together tin ring the coming j spring. There is no reason to doubt. Itliat Yale, Harvard,-. Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Pennsylvania will piny their usual two or thrcc-gainc series, each against, the othvr. and with.this as a .basis, the selection of a championship champion-ship ,tcajn will. not prove as difficult as a year ago, wheu both "'Tigers and Lt hit-cans hit-cans cluimcd the nrcnicr place At the end' of tliat season the ad her- cms of P'rfncotou and Cornell each thought that their respective favorites we're entitled to rank as the intercollegiate intercol-legiate baseball chnmpions, but as the teams of those colleges had not met even in n post-season game the discussion discus-sion amounted to nothing but words. Princeton argued that thov had beaten Yale twice by scores of 0 to 7 and A .to 3. whereas, tho fthacans had won j from Vale only once by a score of 2 t,o 1. The games with Harvard were I also in favor of the Tigers, as the vjc-' vjc-' tones were won by tiwui by scores of I 1 to 0 and S to 3, while Cornell split even in two games with the Crimson, I a .1 to 0 scoro being the result of each I game. The Cornellians based their claims for the informal title on their ', defeat of Lafayette, which college had .in turn won from Princeton; but this is praoticnll- the only support those claims had, and the credits on the Tigers 's side of the ledger were far in the nia-ioriiv. Princeton's first game with 'Cornell this spring will not bu played until May 2, and before that timo the Orange Or-ange and Black will have played nine teen games, which should go far to- I ward getting them in fine trim for the : gamo with Cornell. The second game will bo held at Princeton ou May 13. and the undorgrnduaf es of both colleges are wondering if a third game will be arranged if the teams should break even. The Tiger schedule as a whole contains con-tains thirty-two games, eighteen of which are to bo played here. |