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Today's issue of The Week's Sport contains another elaborate forecast of the winners at the Mott Haven games...
...Tweedey, Philip Davis, Rogers, Hill, Cutting and others, are not entered, shows what strides cycling has made in the college even in the last few months. We wish to lay particular stress on the large proportion of absolutely new men who have entered. This increased active interest in the sport not only promises well for furture intercollegiate track contests, but also promises that a large number of distinctly new athletic men (by which we mean men who would not try for any university team) will be attracted to one of the most enjoyable and healthy sports in existence...
...entered did not apper. The first postponement may be excused by the fact that some who expected to paddle on that day had to row in the class crews against the 'varsity, But Monday was a good enough day for anybody who had the least interest in the sport, and the failure of the contestants to appear shows a lack of spirit. If a man has no interest in canoeing he cannot be blamed, but if he has interest enough to enter for a race he ought to contest. This lack of interest is the more uncalled for because...
...when they felt that they were never to witness the one great annual match. It is enough to have the boat races rowed at an inaccessible distance. This is submitted to on account of the necessity of finding suitable water; but the college will not consent to have another sport dragged out of reach. The objections to the New York game come, not from Boston men alone, nor chiefly, but from the students themselves. Finally, it must be remembered that Yale first proposed New York as a substitute for New Haven, and was emboldened to claim it as neutral ground...
This is an unusually interesting number, containing articles on "Summering in the Northwestern fields of sport," by Ernest Ingersoll; "Wheel and Camera in Normandy," by J. W. Fosidick; "Yacht Racing in Great Britain," by Professor F. C. Sumichrast; "Lawn Tennis-on the present method of scoring," by Howard A. Taylor; "The English Race courses," by "Borderer;" "A Lesson in Brook Trouting," by Dr. G. M. Hyde; "The game of Lawnbowls," by James Hedley; "A new hand at the rod," by C. R. C.; "Bass Fishing on Rideau Lake," by J. W. Longley. But the article chiefly interesting to Harvard...