The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-06
rALE MEN ARE RETURNING.
They Relate Many Interesting Incidents
 of the Games.

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 They Relate Many Interesting Incident, of the Games.
 Many Of the men who went to Eng land with the Yale Athletic team have already returned. and they relate man, interesting incidents Of the games.
 The most interesting point in connec' ton with the games. which has not been emphasized. is the narrow margin by which oxford won. Some or the Yale men who went with the team arc now in town. and while they have nc complaints whatever to make, they are enthusiastic over the fact that oxford won by a hairs breadth. The English men were greatly worried over the out come of the games. and every sporting paper fin England save the Sporting Times" gave the victory to Yale in their forecasts Of the results. The Sporting Times" thought there was a great deal of doubt as to who would win. The results of the contests proved that the papers had good ground for their opinions. The quarter-mile race 1t is said was a wonderful exhibition. Sanford led all the way until the home stretch. He made his effort, however. in front of the grand stand and came on to the last curve at terrific speed. The Oxford man knew the track better and ran with greater judgment. and when Sanford lost his stride and went or his feet on the curve. his opponent came up even with him and fought out the spurt down the home stretch and won by less than yard. The race was pronounced one of the greatest ever seen in England, and all the sporting men who witnessed the contest were loud in their praise of Sanfords plucky effort. l"
 Sheldon in the broad jump complete ly won the hearts of the sport-loving Englishmen. Fry. who is wonderful athlete. expected to win this event with ease, and had kept on playing cricket every day up to within six days of the games. When the time came for Shell don's last leap,t Oakley had the better of the contest by just one-quarter of an inch. Every one felt that the event was settled, and when Sheldon went through the air and won by almost a foot the widest excitement prevailed. The Englishmen yelled like madmen for Sheldon, and when Sheldon that night at the great banquet went up to get his medals the Englishmen gave him an ovation that was not equalled even by that which Hickok received.
 ha af ,xt mains mystery to Yale men. Cady was running even with Oakley at the eighth hurdle. He landed on his feet all right and started for the next bar when he suddenly fell forward on his face. He does not know how or why he fell. Even with Cady out of this race, 1t was a close call for Oxford, as Hatch, who was second, finished bare two feet behind Oakley. The mile run was the only one of the nine contests which was not exceedingly hard fought and close. In this event the Oxford men simply out-generaled Morgan of Yale. The second string man set hot pace for Morgan and ran him even for the first half mile. Morgan thought that he was running with Greenhow and knew that the latter was the man he had most to fear. Suddenly, however Greenhow, who had been laying back, came up at the three-quarters, passed Morgan and the second Oxford man, and was fifty yards ahead before Nor gan discovered his mistake and began to make a hopeless spurt to catch Greenhow. There is no doubt that Greenhow would have won the race in any event, but Morgan's poor judgment gave Greenhow an easy time.
 There is just one point which seems to have been greatly against Yale, and that is the climate. The Yale men all felt well and were apparently in the ly handicapped by the climatic t, pink of condition, but after the .on- tests each man was completely exhaust ed, showing that their supposed fine form had been delusion. All the Eng lishmen admitted that Yale was great in her training. As far as the wet track theory is concerned, and of this a great point was made by Smalley and other English correspondents of the New York papers, Yale men say there was nothing in it. The English track,
 
 the best American track in perfect con- dition.
 The Yale men were loyalty enter tained after the games. First came the big banquet the night after the games, and then the dinner by the American colony on the following night. The next day the entire team was enter tained at "Knebworth House." the old castle of Bulwer Lytton, now owned by MT. Phipps the partner of Andrew Car negie. A dance was given there and the team was entertained for two days Then the men went back to London and then to Oxford, where they were dined by the professors of New college and also of Magdalene. After this all, with the exception of Brown and Pond, who had to return to America, started on a wheeling tour of England. On August IS the team will sail for this country, by the. New York, the same steamer which carried them to Eng land. @ .@ There were great many Harvard and Princeton men in London while | Yale was training at Oxford, and these and the Yale men there all combined to do everything in their power to help Captain Hickok and his men to win. There was very little cheering at the games. Yale tried to give her "Brek-e- kek-kek" yell, but it was somewhat of a failure and amused the Englishmen, who do not cheer but yell and go mad