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Apropos of Cornell's ill success at the Mott Haven games and her inability to acquire honor and win events, the Cornell Sun prints the following...
...Disadvantages consequent upon location cannot be remedied, but the principal cause of our repeated defeats can be removed. Until there is a cinder track at Cornell, it is safe to say that our runners, at least, will never win anything at Mott Haven. Only those accustomed to running on loose cinders can show to advantage on the tracks in New York City. The long heavy stride developed on a hard, firm clay track is totally unsuited to ground that cups at every step. Practice on a cinder track, however, in time develops a short light step eminently adapted to loose...
...conclusion we may say that until at least a short cinder track is provided by the athletic council it is only waste of money for Cornell to send representatives to Mott Haven...
Twenty-five cents apiece will be paid for six copies of the DAILY CRIMSON for May 30 containing an account of the Mott Haven games. Copies may be left at Leavitt & Peirce...
...publish to-day the situation of affairs in the Mott Haven cup controversy which has lately arisen. The loss of the records of the association show lamentable negligence on the part of some one; a search ought to be made for the missing journal, for it cannot be certain, at least from what is now known, that it is certainly lost. If, however, no minutes can be found, the question should be settled in some other way at an early date. The general understanding throughout the college world is that Harvard owns the cup, and we do not believe that...