The Tribune-Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 27, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
WALTER CAMP OF YALE COL-
LEGE WRITES HIS VIEWS.
Deploree tho Methods of Training and
Awerti That Ills Institution In Free
from Them —Unfair to Condemn Col-
Iff^iate Sport* Uonprully.
LTHOUGH I CAN-
not state what you
nail "the Yale posi-
tion" authoritative-
ly, I am glad to
give you in a con-
] denaed form the
opinions I have
heard expressed.
In the first place,
our system is whol-
ly different from
that at Harvard.
Our faculty could at any moment,
should It seem right, forbid any sport
and there would be no appeal. (In
fact, the faculty has but recently-
forbidden Freshmen baseball, not
on account of any disorder, con-
nected with athletics, but as a
matter of discipline for disturbing
a concert.) The only men, outside the
faculty, possessing actual power are the
*aptalns and managers. The gradu-
ates, like myself, have no official posi-
tion, and can only advise. We cannot
<*arry a single point save by persuasion
at the hands of either the members of
the faculty of the officers of the asso-
ciations. The faculty has in its own
body certain men, like Professor E. L.
Richards, who have always followed
and made a study of the sports of the
students, and it Is upon the opinion of
such of its members that the faculty
relies for information regarding the
quality and general direction of the
athletic sports of the university, writes
Walter Camp, of Yale, In Harper s
Weekly. Nor are these gentlemen and
other members of the faculty ever
averse to giving their advice to the ac-
tual managers of the associations, and
it Is by keeping thoroughly posted that
they have been able to give such ex-
cellent advice In the past. This has
Involved of late years a very consider-
able sacrifice of time upon the part of
these gentlemen, and their unselfish-
ness In performing this added service
on behalf of the university has been
thoroughly appreciated. Many of the
reforms and the sturdy growth in prop-
er channels of Yale athletics have
been due to the conscientiousness of
these members of the Yale faculty, and
"specially to their intimate acquaint-
ance with the athletes themselves.
Under these conditions a state of af-
fairs such as that referred to by Presi-
dent Eliot, of drugging athletes, and
that mentioned by Dean Briggs of
"monstrous methods of training,"
bringing about "low academic stand-
ing," could hardly exist, and could not
possibly continue. The growth of ath-
other colleges can hardly subscribe to
the paragraph quoted, nor to the ones
stating that If the authorities at Har-
vard "cannot successfully deal with
this problem, then not only football but
also every other intercollegiate sport
should be abolished."
Every college may have Its own sys-
tem, but it seems hardly fair to con-
demn Intercollegiate sports If one par-
ticular system falls. Besides, as In the
case of the three-mile boat race, the
New England rule, and. later, summer
practice In football, the makers of any
system may change their minds about
the expediency of their own plans.
There is exaggeration of many kinds,
and the attempt, over a year ago, to get
the Harvard and Yale captains to agree
to do away with the summer practice
was made in this belief, but it does not
appear that the entire system of inter-
collegiate athletics has become so exag-
gerated that it must be abolished. Nor
does this seem to represent the Yale po-
sition only, but that of several other
Institutions. Letters from members of
the faculty at Pennsylvania, Princeton,
and other universities Indicate a satis-
factory standing of athletes and ath-
letics, such as would be entirely Incon-
sistent with a belief that Intercollegiate
athletics should be abolished
WOMAN AND HOME.
READING
FAIR SEX.
FOR THE
What the Women of F
inf Ueneral Note* a
Will Interest Dame*
Household Hint*
imIiIoii Are Wear-
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WALTER CAMP.
letlcs at Yale, like the growth of the
university, has rendered the task of
keeping up this intimate acquaintance
with the men and their affairs more and
more arduous during the last few
years, and probably trebled the amount
of time Professor Richards and his
•onferrees have devoted to athletics,
but the results are evidenced In the
fact that the sports are still healthy at
New Haven. There is no drugging of
the men. Summer practice was prac-
tically dispensed with last year, the
gates were thrown open during the
week of secret practice, and modera-
tion was the rule. Athletes are required
to keep up to the standard in their
studies the same as other members of
the university. The athletes them-
selves, in enacting rules for eligibility
of candidates for their organizations,
Incorporated one forbidding the play-
ing of any man who has been dropped
for neglect of his studies until a year
after his detraction.
"It Is left for Harvard unverslty to
take the proper steps toward placing
intercollegiate contests upon their prop-
er footing and under proper regula-
tions. The other colleges can then no
longer shirk the responsibility."
One might grant, if it be affirmed by
the Harvard faculty and President El-
iot, that football last year at Harvard
was unsatisfactory. How could It be
otherwise, if the stories the president
hears are true, that the players are
drugged for nights before their games
to induce Bleep? But one Is not pre-
pared to grant, as suggested, that other
colleges, and among them Yale, "shirk
the responsibility," because they do not
conduct their athletic matters as Har-
vard does, or proposes to do. A num-
ber of years ago the future of Inter-
collegiate sports was regarded by Har-
vard as In Jeopardy, and a set of regu-
lations was then proposed. Among
these regulations the most prominent
was one limiting any intercollegiate
boat race to three miles. Yale and the
other colleges, did not concur, and, fall-
ing to secure five colleges, Harvard
eventually abandoned Its regulations.
Boating has not materially suffered on
this account. Still more recently Har-
vard passed a regulation confining all
athletic contests to New England. But
(Ills proved lliipr a< tlrabl,., and the base
ball nine, the football team, and the
track athletes all contended outside
those limits last season, nor were the
contests less satisfactory than those in
New England. Without going further
Into the matter, thj-se two examples
«cem to be a practical confession that
Harvard Is not Infallible in foresight
upon athletic questions even within
ber own borders Hence Yale and
Champion Hope Skipper.
We present here a portrait of Fred A.
Conners, the young man of Oil City,
Pa., who has broken the rope skipping
record. Conners Is a well built young
man, weighing 148 pounds, and was 19
years old Oct. 4, last. He Is quite a
sprinter, and won his first race by tak-
FRED A. CONNERS.
ing first prize In a four mile running
race In this city on last Fourth of July.
He has at different periods skipped the
rope to amuse himself and young
friends, and easily broke George Sid-
dens', the bantom weight pugilist, rec-
ord of 3,820, and also Blllle Plummer's
record of 3,926, and on Feb. 17, broke
every record by skipping 4,000 times
without a break or rest. This record
was published in several local papers,
and aroused the ardor of one Thomas
McMillln, of the Woods Run resort
club, of Allegheny, City, Pa., who
skipped 4,216, and in a couple of days
broke that record by skipping an even
5,000. Conners has been getting in con-
dition for a week or more, and securing
several reputable and responsible wit-
nesses set out to make a new record.
For 1 hour and 44 minutes he skipped
the rope steadily without a stop, and
^nly quit when the tally keepers noti-
fied him he had made a record of 7,000
skips. He weighed 148 pounds when he
started to jump, but was a few ounces
more than four pounds lighter when he
finished the performance. He says he
could have kept It up as much longer.
CRICKET.
The Rosedale club of Toronto, Ont..
has engaged S. Oakden as professional
for the coming season.
Chambers will be the professional at
Longwood as In former years, and he
will do all he can to keep the eleven
up to the standard.
The Buffalo (N. Y.) club is now ar-
ranging for the corning season. Thos.
Coleman is the secretary.
At a recent meeting of the California
Cricket association, held in San Fran-
cisco, it was announced that A. H. Har-
rison had donated a valuable cup, to be
given to the club that first succeeded In
winning the annual championship three
times.
A team of English amateurs will
make a brief visit to Portugal, making
Oporto their hearquarters and playing
two games there. L. C. V. Bathurst and
G. R. Bard3well, who played with Lord
Hawke's team In this country last fall,
are mentioned as members of the team.
The official schedule of the Harvard
Cricket eleven has been announced. The
schedule comprises eight clubs. The
championship game with Haverford
will occur May 24, and with the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania May 29. All the
games, with the exception of the two
championship contests, will be played
away from home.
Mme. I)u quean e.
Mme. Duquesne is not so well known
as her husband, but some folks say she
is a better player than he is. She Is a
IH
N A RECENT
number of the
Phonogram, Cathe-
rine Weed Ward
gives some good ad-
vice to women plan-
ning to sit before
the camera: "The
greater number of
sitters are utterly-
Ignorant as to how
materials. colors
and styles of cos-
tume will appear in the finished por-
trait, and the operator In blamed for
what is, a8 a rule, not his fault • ♦ •
As a rule It is well—and qhould be re-
quired—to avoid very positive patterns,
$uch aa large plaids, checks, wide
stripes and much Jet or other glittering
trimming and much jewelry. Sharp
opntrasts In materials, trimming or
style of cut are a decided detriment to
q. pleasing portrait, and as a rule the
ton® of color should harmonize with the
sltter'a complexion and hair. Glistening
allien are difficult to light well, a* Is any
mater^il tfrhlch does not easily land
Itself to soft folds. Dead luster silii,
•oft woolens, crapes, fleecy tissues and
Similar materials are very effective."
Mrs. Ward advises, too, that one should
•often, by rendering it indefinite, the
line between skin and dress, both at
naok and wrists, remembering always
tnafc however well a costume may ap-
pear In reality. It alters before the
camera and may call attention to what
might otherwise pass unnoticed
A Tell Tale Fichu.
Gpwna take on the character of their
wearers Just as do gloves and shoes,
and are as Indicative of one's disposi-
tion as the bumps on one's cranium or
the lines of the face. The facts in the
aaso have not been brought down to a
Science yet, but they are all true. The
•Wing of the skirt, the lines of the
Waist, the angle of revers after a week's
| The waist is a plain crepon with velvet
1 sleeves, but this Is very little in evl-
I dence under the fichu.
Sharp-Pointed Ileverw aud llaeque.
Cashmere coloring, a soft blending
of many colors and a tendency to the
designs found In old cashmere shawls.
Is Just now popular. This much may be
said of the style: It is becoming gener-
ally, and much material In a bodice wllj
go with any shade of skirt, or with any
shade of gloves and other accessories.
The reverse of this is true of the almpla
gown of thta illustration, for here thi
Jacket bodice Is of dark brown cloth and
MADAME DUQUESNE,
typical Parisian and has been on the
stage a great many years, notwith-
standing the fact that she Is still a
comparatively young woman. She mar-
ried M. Duquesne before he became
prominent among French players, and
no one more than she has been disap-
pointed at the cool reception accorded
her husband In this country.
A Terre Haute syndicate of horsemen
has bought the young horse Dextell,
own brother to Axtell.
the skirt of mode colored stuff. Tin
former hooks in the center, where It li
ornamented with three large button!
and has double fronts, each of whlcl
forms a point at the bottom, curvel
ovgr the hips, and gives a clrculaj
basque In the back. The upper one o|
the frontf. Is trimmed with a large sailot
collar of mode cloth and the lower on!
has pointed revers. The sleeves are full,
the strap belt plain, and chiffon ro-
settes appear on the collar.
Crepon grenadine Is by all odds th«
handsomest and the most expensive
material offered. It is deeply crinkled
and creased, yet it is transparent. II
comes in solid colors Inlaid with satin
OUR WIT AND HUMOR.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE
FUNNY MEN.
"Trilby Takes the Cake"—Cauae for
Alarm — He Loved Her for llemelf
Alone—Flotsam aud Jetsam from the
Tide of Fun.
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RU RMRRY ©P SPRDNG L©^ELHKESS
wear, are all significant of the char-
acter of the wearer. It Is easy to dis-
tinguish the stylish woman from the
bucolic female by their respective
gowns as they hang in their wardrobes.
But there are other qualities that shine
forth in the gown which a close ob-
server will soon detect. This truth is
seldom more strikingly illustrated than
it was In the case of the gown shown
above. The first time I saw this cos-
tume it was worn by a dainty, dreamy
maid of the most innocent type, and it
had the filmy, summery look which
some maids have In common with the
mists and zephyrs of that seductive
season. There was a fine lace fichu of
immense proportions, which was draped
around the neck and shoulders and then
hung nearly to the bottom of the dress.
This fichu was the chlet characteristic
of the costume, and the manner In
which It was draped was the key to the
character of the wearer, as was after-
ward apparent from the appearance of
a gown exactly like It, which was worn
by the fashionable lady pictured above.
This young woman Is perfectly aware
that she wears a pretty gown and it Is
evident from the pucker of the fichu.
and silk stripes, and it is also seen in
changeable mixtures of colors and of
silk and wool. It Is a material that has
no counterpart in the offerings of pre-
vious seasons, and unless It becomes a
stock texture for all time, as is velvet
and satin, the money put Into It now
will be a sad waste. Just now It adapts
itself to stylish effects charmingly. It Is
tfraped over an underskirt of silk or
satin, often following classic lines and
folds, and Is weighted heavily with edg-
ing of jewels and spangles. Summer
outdoor and garden dresses are to be
made low necked. Women had a fight
against that last year but we must now
submit. They may wear ruffled muslin
scarfs, as did their grandmothers, and
great, big. baby mull hats, but should-
ers seen by candlelight don't look as
well by day, as some venturesome ones
will find out.
Fashion Note*.
The skirt and blazer will be quite as
popular as It was last year. In accord-
ance with a suggestion, dress skirts are
in the market, and may be had In serge,
cheviot, camel's-halr and various wool
fabrics. This Is In response to a most
Imperative demand, and will be found
a very great convenience for ladies who
have heretofore been obliged to make
their own skirts. Some of them are ex-
tremely well made, and not specially
expensive; others are as bad as can be,
and cost in proportion. Of course, there
are high-grade skirts In elegant ma-
terials of all sorts, and for these there
Is a steadily Increasing call.
Simple house dresses of nun's veiling,
tamis cloth, fine cashmere and the vari-
ous light-weight woolen fabrics, with
which the market is well supplied, are
among the absolute necessities for the
well-dressed woman.
As If there were not enough variety
in styles and materials, one Importer
has sent over a dress of pale-blue satin,
with an overdress of chiffon, and o\er
this a drapery of the thinnest net, em-
broidered in floss silk.
China silks are being made up Into
the moat exquisite tea gowns. They are
trimmed with lace and embroidery and
ribbon, and are among the comforting
and dainty accessories In which every
woman delights.
Eton Jackets are to be worn. One cos-
tume is of black cloth, with Eton Jacket
trimmed with white satin. The lapels,
collar and facings are of white, and,
while exceedingly delicate, the effect is
rather pleasing.
TRILBY! TUIL-
by! Trilby!
Pray grant us
now a rest.
For with this Trll-
by-phobla
Our souls are
much d 1 s-
tressed.
With Trilby-t e a a
and Trilby-
sprees,
And Trilby din-
ner-danoe**.
The famous Trilby feet have made
Too many rude advances.
We meet "Svengalls" on the street
6n hypnotism bent,
And "Little Billies" everywhere,
Lorn-eyed and Innocent. ^
"The altogether" Is the thing
In real life as In flotlon.
Till now It promises to be
A positive Infliction.
We've Trilby-servants, pro and con,
And now a Trilby play;
The Trilby comic opera then
Will follow by the way.
The Trilby foot chiropodists
Are using as an ad.;
And as for swell society,
It's gone quite Trllby-mad.
So. Trijby! Trilby! Trilby!
A little rest, we pray;
We'd like to keep It up for years,
But we aren't built that way.
We've thought we "had 'em" oft' before
With every fad and fake;
But Trilby was a feet-ure— gad!
You surely take the cake.
A Tale of To-day lu Five Chapters.
I.
"We are poor now, child," the widow
said with unbidden tears corning Into
her soft blue eyes. "I must manage the
best way I can about your clothes."
"Never mind, mother.. Whan I am
a man"—
II.
Jlmmle's bright face set In the front
of his head came walking up the avenue
to the school house. Of course, you will
understand that Jlmmle came with his
face.
The rude boys hurled rough taunts at
him.
They laughed, "Ha! Ha."
But he entered the school house and
with the aid of a key managed to get
to the head of the spelling class.
III.
"What Is the matter, my little man?"
asked a handsome gentleman In a full-
dress suit who met Jlmmle on his way
home from school and noticed ho was
crying.
"The boys made fun of me."
"Why?"
Jlmmle pointed at his trousers.
"Mother made them for me out of her
old bicycle bloomers."
IV.
Suddenly Jlmmle gave a loud cry.
At last he had found the pockets of
the bloomer!
From one of them he drew $87,435.63 In
bank notes which had been left by his
father!
V.
Jlmmle and the stranger hurried home.
The widow fainted.
"Madame," said the tall, handsome
man, "I have loved you at a distance.
Will you be my wife?"
"Yes," she said.
So Jlrnmie had his reward.
The Outcnst'a Kml.
It was beyond the pale of civilization,
where nature lavishes her tropic splen-
dors on unheeding eyes, where the
stranger white man laid him down to
die.
The simple savages, with whom he
long &ad cast his lot, drew to his side
with tears and lamentations.
"They little know"—
Ills voice was faint and low—
"What misdeeds drove me hence."
The beating of his heart grew fainter.
"I"—a shudder ran through his frame
—"was a member of the Fifty-third con-
gress!"
But the rude red man understood him
not, and so they burled him with all the
splendors of their savage pomp and
honors not his due.
Knew What It Meunt.
Mrs. Hicks—There! Dick is In the
basement singing "I Want to Be an An-
gel." (Rushes out.)
Hicks (on her ret urn)—Wei I, did you
stop his singing?
Mrs. Hicks—Yes; that Is, I hid the an-
gel cake.
V
A Surprise.
The shades of night were falling In
their usual way. One by one the electrta
lights came out and went out, two and
three at a time. The streets or Big
Boom City were deserted.
Everybody was down at Ante Ike's
saloon.
The benches along the walls of the
room were covered with men.
That crowd was broke.
Any man that had money or havj a
friend that had money was at the bar
drinking.
It was Killer Bill's time to set 'em up.
No one ever refused him.
A long time ago six or seven men
tried It. That was the way Big Boom
City's graveyard got a start.
Three men stood at his right and litres
men stood at his left.
"What'U yer 'ave?" Bill asked. *
"Whisky!" r . **
"Whisky!"
"Whisky!"
"Whisky!"
"Whisky!"
"Whisky!"
"Me, too," aald Bill
Ante Ike put the bottle and glasses oa
the bar.
Suddenly the door opened and a young
man entered. He was certainly fron>
some other diggings. His hat waa a
silk hat. His sloes were patent leathsr.
There waa a long line down each leg of
his trousers, which looked as though It
had £>een made by folding the nants
tightly right there. His coat had two
long tails to it. He even wore a necktie.
In his pocket was a letter addressed
"Van Whlzzer De Parnllle, manager of
the Yarvard Football Team."
He entered with an eaay air.
Ills long training at Yarvard enabled
him to enter a bar room with that.
Hello!" remarked Killer Bill.
"I beg pardon," said the young, aa he
held a green carnation to his well-cUt
nose.
"llcllo! Ain't yer got no ears?"
"If you mean that word for a saluta-
tion," said the young man, "good eve'n-
nlng."
One hundred and twelve citizens of
Big Boom City held their breaths. ^
(No sooner had they held them than
the young man removed the flower from
his nose.) \
" Ave er drink," said Bill.
"With pleasure. I shall take creme de
menthe."
The stillness In the room was very
loud.
"What:" exclaimed Bill.
"Creme de menthe."
"Nobody don't drink that stuff out
here. Barkeep fill '1m up er straight."
"Pardon me, I do not care to Indulge."
The young man started for the door.
Bill got before him and reached for
him.
With an awful suddenness the air was
filled with arms, legs, heads and other
things.
Citizens of Big Boom City will tell
their children about It.
The very building rocked.
Then a man got kicked out through
the front door.
"If any other man ever refuses ter
ilrink with me," said Bill, after he had
put his whisky away, "I shall get vexed
an* hurt 'lm."
% Failure.
Jess—The first thing Mrs. Bleeker div?
was to break her husband of all his bf.?",
habits.
Bess—Then what?
Jess—Hs became so Insipid that she
had to sue for a separation.
l ause for Alarm.
Mike—Run, youse klda, an' clap your
handa onter your pockets, fur here
c^mes a cove down de street an' Mickey
says he is der income tax collector.
Looked That Way#
Wool—Benedict says his wlfe'sclothes
cost a mere trifle.
Van Pelt—Did he marry a living pic-
ture?
He Loved Her Alone.
0S
She—Do you love me for myself
alone?
He—Of course I do. You don't sup-
pose I want your mother around all the
time, do you?
Hound Argument
Herdso—I am always In favor of the
under dog.
Saldso—So am I; it tends to make the
fight last longer.
On liarren Noll.
It was in the mountain fastnesses of
the sunny Southland, where the en-
lightened Influences of the higher cult-
ure are all unknown.
Amid the yelping of dorrs around the
mud-chinked cabin the Itinerant dom-
inie drew rein.
"Any children here?" he asked.
"Nary one," drawled the sallow habt-
stlrrup side, "but"—he shifted his quid—
"Jim Ell *rbee offered me my choice of
his kids fer that dog." He pointed to a
lean, lank hound as he spoke.
The circuit rider raised his hands In
horror.
"The unfeeling wretch!" he said.
"Thet's hit, stranger; thet's hit!" The
mountaineer patted approval on the
horse's flank. "He wouldn't give no
boot!"
Any way, some savages eat the mis-
sionaries sent to them.
The Turn of the Tide.
The doctor put up his watch.
The anxiety of many long days and
sleepless nights were at an end and It
was with a sigh of infinite relief that
he turned and exclaimed:
"The crisis is past!"
Hurriedly leaving the building, he
took the first car downtown and at five
minutes of 3 entered the Steenth bank,
and, to the astonishment of the teller,
took up his note.
It was as a last re ort that he had put
up his watch.
Consistent.
Jess—Well I must go and take oft my
bicycle trousers.
Bess—What for?
Jess—I've got to attend a meeting of
the society for the Introduction of dresa
skirts among the Turkish women.
Had the llulge.
Wool—I couldn't stop his talking; hs
pulled my nose, and held a raior at my
throat.
Van Pelt—Who was the vllllan?
Wool—My barber.
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