The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-12
e. Il. FRY.
l.. 7. SHELDON.

mon, and when Yale began negotiating
Tor meeting between the picked men of
the two great colleges they were delighted
with the idea and have begun training
again
The scheme of an international collegiate
contest has long been considered by c. H.
Sheriff., .Jr., the famous cx-sprntcr, and
other Yale graduates, but this Is the first
year of the four during which the project
has been thought of that Yale finds herself
In position to challenge her English
cousins across the big pond. In 1890, when
Sheriff. first began negotiating with Ok
ford, Yale was beaten in the intcroollcgl-
ate championships. The following year
Yale met the same fate, and In addition
was showed under by Harvard in the
Yale Harvard games. The sons OF Eli mot
defeat again in 1892 and in 1893 Although
victorious in the intercollegiate champion
ships, they were downcd by Harvard In the
intcrunivcrsity games.
This year, however, Yale is mt the very
top Of the college athletic heap In Amer
lea. She won n hard fought fight for SUI
prcinacy ut the Yale Harvard games q few
weeks ago and defeated the best men of all
her college rivals ut the moro recent inter
collegiate championships near Now York
The Yale team will sail for England
about the middle of juno and will have
about three weeks of training on British
soil before they are called upon to show
what an American college can do on track
and field. 1t Is sincerely to be hoped that
thc change of climate, often fatal to an
athletes chances of success, will not af-
feet the Yalcnsians unfavorably and that
they will bc III such excellent physical CON
dition that they will he able to make AS
good showing lis they could make on
this side.
Judging from the experience of the
cherry Diamond team sent abroad In 1881,
the climate in all probability will not in
tericr with them, and they will without
doubt either defeat the Oxford cracks or.
II beaten, make the dark blues of "mcrric
England" know they have been in IL race
The athletes sent to England and France
by the Manhattan Athletic club-thc tl;.2-
cling athletic pyrotechnic that went up
most brilliant rocket and came down the
BLACKLIST kind Of II stick-wcrc Luther Ca
ry, the ''Princcton demon" WHO WAS one
of the greatest sprintcrs America has ever
produced; Malcolm Ford, the OK cham-
plon all around athlete; G.. a. J. Qucck-
Derner, the gigantic shot puttcr and ham,
mcr throwcr III. L. Dadmun, the swift
quarter miller; y. b. George, the famous
runner; ii. l.. Hallock, the running high
jumper; G: l.. Nicoll, the OK champion
waller; Mortimer Remington, the sprint
or, and others.
These athletes, many of whom were the
peSt men In America In their respective
spcciaitics at the time, swept everything
before them in France--thcy captured cv-
cry prize i'll sight ut the Paris galncs-and
made most crcditablc showing against
the best athletes in England They won
~ 1lrst prizes, 10 second and third, and
the entire lot WAS valued ut So, 900. Cary
won five out of eight races, including the
100 yards championship of England, and
did the hundred several times i'm 10 sec
onds. Remington won out of II races
including the quarter mile champion
ship OF England. Qucckbcrncr won sew
en- first prizes, including the emblem
representing the 16 pound hammer throw
Ing championship of England, and cstab-
lishcd now world 5 record of 1874 feet 2L
inches, which has since been beaten by j
S. Mitchell
The Yale team will include, among 9th.
ers, w. o. Hicllok, j. +. Morgan. f. Fl.
Cady, II. Z. Sheldon, Alexander Brown
q. +. Sanford and probably W. s. Wood
hull. Although it is by no means so for
midablo team rs that sent abroad by the
Cherry Diamond it will not be called
upon to meet the best men in England
but only the best men in Oxford.
he events In which Yale and Oxford
will probably compete are the following:
The 100 and 40 yards dashcs, the half
mile and one mile runs, the l2O yards hur-
die race, running broad and high jumps,
throwing the IL pound hammer and put
ting the Is pound shot.
Cady or Sanford will represent Yale in
the 100 yards dash. Sanford has negotiat-
ed the distance in 10 % seconds, which Is
onc-ffth of q second faster than the best
public performance of Jordan, his Oxford
rival
Sanford will also be relied on to win