Show I POINTS Of INTEREST IN EASTERN fOOTBALL GAMES b Ci I BY tn MANHATTAN New cw York orl Nov No 7 The i.-The The three points point of interest In tn tho the Eastern football world Just JOst now arc are the cams gars between YaK Yah anti ami nl Princeton Yale Vale and nd Harvard and ud Annn Annapolis ole sund West Vest est Point rho Tho man who can cun pick tl the tho three winners Is a smarter than rhan I pretend to be Le beIt If It J I 1 were compelled to name the winners win win- acre ners I would Incline to choose Princeton Prince Irinco ton over Yale Yair Yale Yalo over lar ar Harvard and Navy y over Army And nd for these reasons Princeton would pro profit t b by her fa fate tato to lust year eLu when sho she was beaten by Yale Jar largely ely her men wt-ro wt o and could COUIl not stand eland the in the sl second cond half haI The Yale lale Ranie ule is tho the ono great football event o for Princeton and It I has hal b boon en evident c that this y yu y r tho the whole energies of or tho team and of the tho coaches have ha been directed towards the Yale Vale game Nothing hn baa haa been permitted to stand In the tho way of or this and with ih th the tho playing abilities so 0 nearly equal 1 look to see seo Princeton's Bup superior condition and the recklessness coming coining from rom the the fact that there t Is till sill ul to pain gain win tho the same game On the other oilier hand the tho Harvard Har game Is to Yale what whal tho the Yale Yal game i hI to Princeton rh rise Tho elites s had rather loseto loso lose to Princeton twice than to ard once and their efforts arc arC directed to being in the pink of ot condition to melt meet tho time Cambridge men As s to tho the Arm Army anti and Navy game It seems to mo me that tha t the sailors ha have 1 even evena evena a a moro more lall marked ed superiority over the soldiers lS l'S this ye year r than they they- had last However this s 's la Is not a 0 prophecy an and I advise no bets bot on tho the of at what I have said said A peculiar bet betas was as mado recently at Brownes Browne's chop house hOUtH the terms ol ot which are Interesting An old Columbia player bet a Harvard man two to one In each instance that he could pick the winners In five of the big games to be played Tho The selection of ot the gan gamos gaims s was to be made by br Harvard tho-Harvard man maim He chose the Yale Princeton the Harvard Yale the Limo Pennsylvania Cornell the he Carll Navy Carlisle Navy le-Navy and tho Army and arid Navy savy av games sames The Columbia man who bet jet two to ono one on each game picked Yale to beat both Princeton and Hanyard Han Hal yard ard the Navy to bent beat both the Lime the Army on arid and the Indians and Pennsylvania to beat Cornell CorneJo Thorp of tho the Indians Is tho the real rel of ot the tho nimble toe artists He Be Helas hn has las a record of or seven se goals this year Ho lo won the tho Syracuse and lo Pennsylvania tate state for fOl time the Indians s gam games by kicking three feld field goals In each Ho as un- un able to maintain his reputation ton against Pt for ho he missed on several attempts McCau of Lafayette is prom among the Hold field Koal goal rs rs hIs hla l latest test achievement being bainG in tn kicking two goals against Brown BIown an and thereby wInning winning win wIn- in ning ruing tho the gamo for Lafayette TIme The Yale Yalo baseball team may take a n Southern training trip next spring durIng during during dur dur- ing the two weeks' weeks Easter vacation Spring training trips tv to t the South have havo been bein frowned upon during the past two years are at Yale Yalo In fact tact ever sinco tho the street fracas at Washington In lu which Coach Lush was wait so 80 badly injured that the tho loss of ot hi his hla eyesight was feared as tho the result resul of at a thrown stone tone Tho The holiday hol- hol holi holi- day reC recess next spring begins In March when whon weather conditions In tn the North orth generally do not riot permit of or much In the wa way of ot practice and It i Is 18 possible that tho faculty may may- look move more favorably fa on the project next spring Tho The baso- baso ball ban authorities at Annapolis have of of- fored fared tho the use of or the Academy grounds for fOl the Ell Eli El candidates and while ground this thlu Invitation may be accepted If It the trip trio Is made another plan Is being considered consid I ered cred consisting of or a fortnight of or training train train- In ing in camp with ith some minor league team In Georgia Some 00 cn candidates at Harvard are alO In active training each day ay for the tho track team team which will wil represent the tho Cans Cam Car Car- bridge college In 1909 Captain Hand Rand Is ii I regarded as one of the moat proficient leaders which tho the Crimson runners and Jumpers have had In JI years and under his hit guidance a splendid team is expected expect ed to be turned out Rand himself is a hurdler of at class having ll won both the time high and low Jow hurdles In t the tho o 1907 dual meet with wih Yale He was a 3 member of the Olympic team which represented America In England and took fourth place In tho the Ol Olympic high hurdles Lawrence Law Law- rence renco and ant Barr rr aro showing up welt well wel In the tho pole polo vault tho the lat lat- tor ter athlete having recently cleared clerel Uio Use bar at at I 12 foot feat 4 7 8 Inches IncIses in exhibition a mark marle which is better beter than time tho Iho Harvard lIar Har vard yard record I Whets When questioned r recently as to what he considered the lw greatest athletic event of or 1908 1905 President James Jamos Sullivan a I of at the Amateur Athletic Union declared that Melvin Melvln Sheppards Sheppard's victories at t Lon Len don especially don especially the tho 1 1600 COO don metre rac race race race- was Avas to his mind not nol only onh the most sensational sen sen- but the classiest happening of or the tho th traci and field feld year When I select Sheppards Sheppard's running as the tho best bett athletic work of or the year I ha have hare haIn In mind all al the great performances performances perform perform- ances dono both hero here and abroad said I Mr tr Sullivan Sulvan Theres Theras Porters Porter's um jum Jump lag ing InS SmIthson's hurdling Rector Wal Waler Val Walker Walk Walk- 1 er and arid Kern Ker at the tho tie springs springs Irons' Irons great grent long Jump at London IonS It Carpenters Carpenter's great grent quarter mile victory and wonderful work In the he wel weights ht by Rose Hose McGrath am and Flanagan they Flanagan-they they all al pale before work in the distance U it I Is 15 the first time we have havo avo beaten England In the tho mile mUo race on 01 English 5 soil U and British h sportsmen welo heart heart- brokers broken at Qt 1 losing OH In 3 the tho race Sheppard Shoppard went out of at his hla distance to win tho tiso 1500 m tro race which maJ makes his per er- er all aU the moro meritorious Aside from hi his work at ft London Sheppard Shep Shep- pard rard rud won tho the M Metropolitan n Canadian and arid American mile half championships all all better batter than hams l S. S The only reason ho did nut not take the EI English title tto nl a as af well I t because th the tho tf steamer mer did not bring him to London Loudon In t InH for tho the raCI race To my mind the time metre 1600 race Is the tar star event of or tho the Olympic program un and Sheppards Sheppard's feat teat In winning It tt I tho the English milers In their own climate was by y long long- Jong odds iho tho greatest athletic happening of at 1908 1905 I. |