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THE LUMP crry MINER: LUMP CITY, MONTANA. FOOTBA LL OUT LOOK WALTER CAMP OF YALE COL- LEGE WRITES HIS Deplores the Met hods of Assen* That lita Institution f roua l'Imita. tintait. to legiate Sports tienerally LTHOLTGH I CAN - riot state what you call \the Yale posi- tion - authoritative- ly, I am glad to give you in a con- densed 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 actuel power are the captains and managers. The gradu- ates, like myself, have no official post- tion. and can only advise. We cannot carry 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 etudents, 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 tbey 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 ln prop- er channels of Yale athletics have been due to the conscientiousness Of these members of the Yale faculty, and especially to their intimate acquaint- ance with the athletes themselves. Under these conditions a state of af- raira 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- • WALTER CAMP. . — lettes at Yale. like the growth of the university, has rendered the task of keeping up this intimate acquaintance with the men and their affaire more and more arduous during the last few years, and probably trebled the amount af time Professer Richards and his conferreen have devoted to athletic, but the results are evidenced in the fact that the erporta are still healthy at New Haven. There is rio drugging of the men. Summer practice wan prac- tically dispensed with lest year, the gates were thrown open during the week of secret practice, arid 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 hem been dropped for neglect or his studies until a year after hie defraction. \It le left for Harvard unversity to take the proper steps toward placing intercollegiate contesta Upon their prop- er footing and under proper regula - lions. The other collegem can then no longer shirk the reeponsIbility.\ One might grant, If it afilrmed by the 'larve faculty (n1 , 1 President that ti ball lent year at Harvard was unisatisfactoty Homs could be otherwise. If the stries the president hears re rua, ils t phi yens 111 ,, elrliag.\(1 foi nights heforo their grimes to Induce ' , deep? }tu o t ne iii nit pro pared fo grant, as angg , a10.1. t hat gther colleges, and among them Yale, - mhirk the reeeeneibilit because they 'li not conduet their athletic mettent as Har- vard doem. ••t• proposes to do. A num- ber of years ago the future of inter- oellegInte ep ‚ rte was regardeci by Har- vard api ln leopardy, and a art of regu- latImis was then proeorged Among thaler regoietiene the union prominent Iras one limiting any intercellefiate VIEWS, boat race to three miles Yale and the DEM IND other colleges, did not coneur, and, tan- ins to secure five cellet.(es. Harvard eventually abandoned 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 Trainin g and this proved impracticable, and the base I» Free bail nine, the football team, a.nd the c„„a„. i , track athletes all contended outside triose limita lest Besson, nor were th•.• conteste less satisfactory than those ln New England. Without going further into the matter, these two ••xamplem scent to be a practical confession that Harvard is not infallible iii foresight upon' athletic questions even within her own bordera. Hence Yale and other colleges can hardly subscribe t, the paragraph quoted, no to the omis 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 seerds hardly fair to con- demn intercollegiate sports if one par- ticular system fails. 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 atterept, over a year ago, to get the Harvard end 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 ot several other institutions. Letters from members of the faculty at Pennsylvanie, Princeton, and other universities indicate a astis - factory standing of athletes and ath- letics, such as would be entirely incon- sistent with a belief that intercollegiate athletics should be abolished. . e Champion Hope skipper. , We present here a portrait of Fred A. Conners, the young (han of 011 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 hie first race by tak- • FRED A. CON'NERS. Ing tiret prise in a four mile running race in this city on lest Fourth of July. He hais at different periods skipped the rope to amuse himself and young friends, and easily broke George Stri- dente, the bantom weight pugilist, rec- ord of 3,820, and also Billie Plummer's record of 3,926, and on Feb. 17, bgpke 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 McMillin, of the Woods Run resort club, of Allegheny. City, Pa., who skipped 4,216, and in a couple of days brake 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 - nasses set out to make a new record. For 1 hour and 44 minutes he skipped the rope steadily without a stop, and only quit when the tally keepers noti- fied him he had made a record of 7,000 skips. HP weighed 148 pounds when he started to jump, but was a few ounces more than four pounds lighter when he finished the performance. He gays he could hăV kept it up as much longer. C e RICKET. 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 le now ar- ranging forebe coming season. Thos. Coleman is the secretary. At a recent meeting of the Californie Cree association, held in San Fran- cisco, it was announced that A.11. Har- rison had donated a valuable cul). to be given to the club that first succeeded in winning the annuel championship three times. A team of English amateurs will make a brief visit to Portugal, making Oporto their hem cauarters and playing two KRITIes there L. C. V. Bathurst and (1. It Itardmwell. who played with Lord Ilawke tenu' in this country last fall, are mentioned as members of the team. The ••fti• loi schedule nt the Harvard cri( ket ha e bore' ennouneee. The lichratilo comprimes eight chihm The championship game with l'avortera will occur May 24, and with the Uni- versity of Pennsylvanie Mity 29 All the games, with the exeeption of the two championship contests, will be played away from home A Terre Haute syndicate of horsemen han bought the young horse Dextell. ewe brother to A xtell. FOR WIVES, PAIVIUNKEY TRUIE OF INDIANS STOP INTERMARRYING. The Custom Threatemmi the Perpetua - flou of the Malot , rhey Now Want to Intermarry with the lEaateru Cirera- kee Tribe. eve. MODERN Instance of an entire nation : 1 1 ,0 or people in search .:111e of eligible wives and husbands by , the wholesale is e • Just now 'eurnIsited eeif by the interesting but little known 11111•' tribe of Pamunkey 4 ed.‘ j Indiens who iIve in one of the tide water eastern coun- ties ot Virginie, and are indeed literal- ly the \first familles\ of the Old Domin- ion, being lineal descendants of the true aboriginies. So blue and exclusive, in fact, is the Pamunkey blood, so unmixed through centuries with any other strain. filet the tribe is dying out and experi- encing the urgent need of a matrimo- nial alliance with some outside stock to preserve the root. The detrimental effects of continued inter -marriage be- tween members of the tribe have be- come apparent to them, but inasmuch as they scorn a union with their white as well as their negro neighbors, they are in a dilemme as to what st e ps they should take to restore the blood ottheir tribe and save themselves from ex- tinction. It le a case like that of the primitive Romans and Sabines, but thus far no Sabine women have been lured among them and captured. Under these circumstances the head men of the Pamunkey tribe have opened negotiations with the eastern band of Cherokee Indiens in the adja- cent states of North Caroline, Tennes- see, Georgia and Alabama to procure brides for their unmarried sons and husbands for their unmarried daugh- ters. The male Pamunkeys understand the eastern Cherokee women to be ex- ceptionally pretty, modest and sensible, and the fentale Pamunkeys regard the eastern Cherokee braves as handsome, loyal and industrious, calculated to make model husbands. Correspondence was begun about a year ago with the chiefs of the eastern Cherokees as the Jamestown region in 1641. Their pro- genitors possessed the land when Cap- tain Newport in 1607 founded James» town, the first permanent English set- tlement on the American continent. Consequentiy the present Pamunkeys are the real \blue bloodn\ among all the Indiens surviving in Ulis country to- day, and they form the largest remnant of the old Algonquin Stock now to be round on the Atlantic coast. Only a few trifling offshoots and uncertain and fee- ble levains of blood reniai(' of the other Powhatan tribes. The Pamunkeys alone have survived intact the encroaehments of civilization, and altten;gh their mari- niers are now moditled, their Wood Rn- poverished, their language lost and their prestige vanished, they si iii Mus - trate mi themselves the law of the sur - vivat of the fittest. This precious tribe ln a queer set - A PAMUNKEY GALLANT. tiement called \Indien Town.\ in King William county. Virginie, twenty-one milesdueeast of Richmond, and one mile east of the historie \White House,\ where George Washington was mar- ried to the beautiful widow Curtis. Their reservation, comprising 800 acres, cededeto the tribe by the ancient colon- ial assembly of Virginie, is an oddly formed neck of land almost entirely sur- rounded by one of the serpentine curves of the Pamunkey river, not far from its debouchment into York river. The place is connected with the mainland by a narrow strip of sand the isolation and protection afforded by this peculiar sit- uation have no doubt saved these In- diana from extermination. About one- third of the 'reservation is good farm - A GROUP OF CHEROKEE BELLES. resit of re:teated conferences on the subject btween rpresentatives of the Pamunkeys and Commissioner of In- dian Ariettes Browning, at the bureau Of Indien affaira In Washington, and inducements were presented to the mountaineer Cherokees in North Caro - Una to scrid on a select consignment of eligible girls and youths. Lest week three emissaries of the Pamunkey tribe departed for North Caroline to visit Principal Chief Nimrod J. Smith and other head men of the eastern Chero- kees in person at Bird Town, Wolf Town, Soca and Big Cove, and bring _ A CHERORF:E. MISS. the negotiations to a favorable conclu- sion. Whether the hardy Cherokee mountaineers will consent to ally them - ‚Pives with the Pamunkey dwellers at tidewater without ton fia ffering Indure- r - Fienta Is doubtful. but the Pamunkeys themseives arrytontlderit .,r success and hop. , for a speedy infusion of new blood Into their tribe. Tais plight of the Pamunkeys and the peculiar conditions that cive rixe it are the more notewerthy from the fact that the mentliere of the tribe are the lineal deecereleerg o r the „id and representing all that la I S m ith end pocesontem. da -0111,1g en a part of thelr riginal touting gr.oi onn'ds , Powhatnna et' the (lave ef g 'ap . t I gili r .Tn t t h gn a mire powerful whoriginal conferierary which gave the early Virginie enl••uleta 90 much trouble, until espalier' from the Ing land and the remânder consista of woods and low swamps, well stocked with deer, raccoon, otter, muskrats. mink, redbirds, wild geese, ducks and turkeys. There are now 90 Pamunkey Indians actually present on the reservation proper and 35 more reeding on another small reservation 11 miles northward, on the Mattapony river, besides 20 others employed in service as boatmen on steamers plying the Virginie rivers, making a total of 145 Pamunkeys now living. In appearance they are dis- tinguished by the usuel copper -colored skin, high cheekbones, straight, coarse hair and dark eyes. They are not par- ticularly strong or robust, and their average longevity te somewhat lower than that ot . their white and colored neighbors. The eastern Cherokees, toward whom the Pamunkeys are now turning long- ing eyes, are a vigorous, thriving pen pie, occupying territory of their own in the scnithwestern part of North Caro lina and contiguous portionliof Georgie. Alabama and Tennessee, numbering 2.885 goule. There are 1,520 of them te North Caroline, 936 in Georgie, 318 in Tennessee and 111 in Alabama. All are self-supporting citizeme moral, law- abiding, industrious, comfortably fixed, and wear citizens' clothing. The ofaly aid they receive from the United States government Iű for their schools. The males and females are about equal in n'outrer, and Inasmuch as a consider- able portion of each are grill unmarried albeit of marriageable /fg\ they fulfill In the judgment of the Parnunkeys, ail the needful requirements for the de alred inter tribal matrimonial alliance The young male Pamunkeye are par ticularly desirous of wires front amatie the eastern Cherokee m'aiderai. and at the Sam. , time the feulai,' Pirrromkevrl, while lerrra dprnomit Tothe in' out 'a.:tri manifestationa, are iike‘‘ise ;luxions to secure eligible humbands from tr i - m arna tribe; „ that if a ll 1)Pfi Vi . . • 11 In the usnding tn•iudiations down Irr North carolina. bath classes hope to 1. , agree- ably sulted A Zoo Caria. _ . et the Bombay.Zon the skie of a mea serpent sixty-four fret long le on ex- hibition. Stops in flot Weather. A Spanish pa per the pyptenses regularly WURVP(1111 , 1 1 , 111/11 , al1011 in hot weather. T. B. BLACKSTONE. Irbe President and Principal Owaar of • Ureat Railway. Timothy B. fflacketoue, president s.u.d principal owner of the Chicago & Alton road for more than thirty years, has occupied a prominent position among the great railroad magnates of the west, and, It might be added, of the country. In point of energy, ability and success he is the peer of any of them, and from some points of view he excels all the rest. The Alton is about the only road in the country of which it can truthfully be said that there is not a drop of water in its sto(•k or any other of its securities. It is the only road whose total capitalisation is con- lederablY lems than Ra actuel cost of construction and Us intrinsic value. Mr. Blackstone is a native of Connecticut. He was born at Beauford March 28, He spent hie youth on a farm ai , laid the foundation hie education at- tending the district school in t. in- tervals when farm work did not daim him. Later he was sent to one of the best known lonnecticut academies, which he atte ded until his health broke down and he was compelled to seek occupation which would give him outdoor exercise. He joined an engi- neering corps engaged in surveying and locating the New York & New Haven road. He began as a rodman, but in due Utile graduated as a thoroughly trained, skilled and 'practical civil en- gineer. He was appointed assietant en- gineer of the St tc'eltrulge St Pitisfleld road and was afterward connected in the same capacity with the Vermont Valley toad. In 1851 he came west and took charge of the construction of a section of the Illinois Central. Hia head - quartera were at LaSalle and the resi- dents of that place eleeted him mayor, which in the only political office he ever held. In 1856 he was appointed chief engineer of the Joliet St :nuertgn road, out of aflif2n the Chicago •tc Al- ton has actually grown. He was elect- ed president in 1861, and three years later, when the road became part of the Alton system, he was chosen presi- dent of the new company. At that time the road had only 250 miles of tracks. Its present mileage is over 1,0(8) miles. Mr. Blackstone has always been alert to adopt new improvements. It was an Alton coach which was transformed in- to the first Pullman sleeper and it was on the Alton the first dining -cars were run. Jeffersonlan simplicity Is a marked characteristic of Mr. Black - atone. He is easier of access than any other railroad president in the country. Ffe Is large-hearted and generous to a' fault and recently established a public library to the memory of his father in his native town. A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. The Countess Rullman of Austria Noir ln the ( ountry. A distinguish••d Austrian lady, thIll Countess K uliman, is now in this coun- try, accompanying Hia Excellency Na- wab Imad Nawaz Jung Bahadur, of Hyderabad, and his wife, who are visIt- ing for the first Ume. The coun- tess is returning to Vienne from a visa to the orient, and the party arrived San Francisco on the City of Peking some time ago. The countess' husband. COUNTESS K II LLM A NI . Count Kullman, occupies a high tien ln the Austrian court She is not one of the nayrab•fi party, but han been the t, nveling ennepanion of the nnwab'e wife mince they were acci•lentally thrown together at Hong Kong. She will aecempany the nawab and his wife to Europe. — — Parme Thikets ta Paris. The Perle Monte de Plete gives MU% pawn th kets for about 350,000 watches annuall V onpin•• I' VI na. en. (In' , New England f', t.kr r o taD inyl 12,000 women we 1111.1•1111.1.• •
