New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-19
INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE SPORTS.


BELIEF THAT THE ENGLISH CHALLENGE WILL
BE ACCEPTED by YALE AND HARvARD-THE
CHANCES OF An AMERICAN VICTORY.
Tho general opinion is that there will be a great
International athletic meeting In America In the
autumn between the challenging oxford and Cam
bridge teams and Harvard and Yale representative
athletes II IS we'll known that the London Ath-
letlc club Will send team 10 compete against
the New York Athletic Clubs cracks in september.
and II turns out that the best In the English
intercollegiate team the best athletes OF the
London Athletic club that they will come over
here on the principle OF killing two birds with one
stone 1t has been decided that the games OF the
New-York and London Athletic clubs Will be held
on September u. and the Amateur Unions cham
spionships to be held one week earlier Some or
the best athletic authorities Ike James +. Sullivan
and Alexander Jordan. think that the meeting be-
tween the t.nglishmen and the Americans in the
games OF the New-York Athletic Club would kill
the interest IN the International intercollegiate
meeting II 1t should be held here. and that IL
would be better for all concerned II the college
men should hold their competitions either at New
Haven or Boston. one thing IL believed TO be GER
tain and that is that the New-York Athletic Club.
I'm arranging TO reimburse the London Athletic
club for the expenses incurred by It's men, has put
In the agreement that the London athletes are not
To compete anywhere in America before meeting
the New-York Athletic Clubs champions.
H. = Van Duser. Harvard graduate said TO
The Tribune reporter yesterday that he thought
the programme OF the challengcrs a very fair one.
and that as the cartel IL sent in fair spirit the
college men ought to be quick to accept II. The
only competition to which any take eN-
ccption is the three-mie run. which Is not trained
for in this country. at leas, among college athletes.
but there is little doubt that any trouble In this
direction could be easily smoothed over.
II s BROOKS once intercollegiate champion Splinter.
is Of opinion that the challenge will be accepted
almost as soon as II arrives He comedies the broad
OF Cambridge will about win the one-mle race.
In the yards Mr.. Brooks believes that Richards.
OF Yale, will have "A good chance and Bgelow or
Harvard. will undoubtedly make a good second
the quarter-mi,e Harvard has Vincent. who won the
intercollegiate in 80 5 seconds. and Mr. Brooks
believes that 90 rs will be fast enough 70 win the
International II Vincent gets out or form there
are Bingham and Marshall and Yale has such good
ones as Jordan and Chubb Hollister OF Harvard.
ought to do well in the half-mile run. while Cady
and Hatch and Perkins. Of Yale. ought to be able
to give good accounts of themselves In the hurdles
In the high jump Paine. of Harvard may be able
TO do for his country In athletics what ms iather
70 Sheldon OF Yale. who won il last year in Lon
don, while the hammer and shot are generally con-
coded to Hickok and Brown. OF Yale. .
In going the competitions carefully. Mr..
Brooks concluded by CHASING the 100 yards as open.
the quarter half one Of the hurdles. the high
Jump br6ad jump and hammer and shot for the
Americans. while conceding one hurdle and the one
and three miles to the English. He thinks that
on form four competitions should surely De won
nv Harvard and Yale. and II two runs, the 100
wards and either the three miles, can be
captured. the general result would be triumph
for America