St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-03
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNFA-
VORARLE TO THE NEW HA-
VEN PROPOSITION.
c0LLEGIAns DISCUSS IT
THEY REGARD THE MATTER IN
a SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT
LIGHT.
MAY COME OVER
If 1t Wins Against Oxford 1t
Would Be Willing to Send u
Team

LONDON, July 2.-The reply of the
athletes OF Yale TO the challenge of
Oxford and Cambridge has been com
nluDicated TO the latter by the Asso-
ciated Press, and is praised by the
athletes of the two universities as
being a sporrsmanlike document, but
neither university viii make a reply
or statement on the subject until the
Oxford and Cambridge committees
confer on the subject The teams are
training for their university sports at
a place about fifty miles from London.
a representative of the press went to
the training grounds with YaIe's re-
ply, which was read with intense in
terest by the members of both teams.
The action Of Yale was a great sur
prise, as they all thought that Har-
wards refusal ended the matter, and
II required some minutes for Z. S
Koran, the Cambridge president 10
recover sufficiently TO express any
opinion. After reading the dispatch, he
said: This is so unexpected that do
not know what to say. The matter
must be discussed among our fellows
before / can venture to say what they
will do. We must also consult with
the Oxford men. Parts of Yales re-
ply are little ambiguous to me. For
instance, they wish to except the three
mile run. II that was agreed to Yale
would be expected to substitute some
thing else. I cannot understand Yales
challenging both Oxford and Cam
bridge, and think that Yale should
have been satisfied with challenging
the winner of our games. The chaI-
lenge shows that the Yale men are
true sportsmen.'
All the members of the Oxford team
were lounging in a large room looking
fit for anything, when Yale's chai-
lenge was handed to w. J. Oakley,
president of the Oxford Athletic club
After having thoroughly perused the
message, Mr.. Oakley said:
Oxford cannot accept The date de-
termined upon is too late. The college
authorities would not permit Us to be
absent in October, as we must be at
oxford on Oct. 9. But any day during
the latter part of September would do.
I don't understand Yale's challenging
both Oxford and Cambridge. She GER
tainly cannot mean to take US both
on. That would not be fair. It is a
pity that the challenge has come so
late. 1 viii consult with our people as
soon as possible, and confer with Mr.
Koran. It is likely, however, that
whichever is the winner of our inter-
collegiate games will accept Yale's
challenge, provided an earlier date can
be arranged
IN a DIFFERENT LIGHT
Later it became apparent that with
out exception the Oxford and Cam
bridge athletes are opposed to com
biningH their teams to meet Yale alone.
President Koran, discussing Yale's
cable message, said: THE issuing of
the challenge was not regarded as a
purely international affair, but Har-
ward and Yale were named because
they are the two representa- tive Amer
lean universities If we had regarded
the challenge only in its international
significance we might have made up
a team from Trinity college, Dublin
and other leading universities of Great
Britain, as well as from Oxford and
Cambridge. oxford defeated Yale in
1894, and why should she now feel
capable of defeating a team from OK
ford and Cambridge combined?'
1t was the unanimous feeling of the
members present that if Cambridge de-
feats Oxford in the approaching inter-
collegiate games, and if Yale will then
challenge Cambridge alone, Cambridge
will accept the challenge. The COM
mittee of the Oxford University A. c.
called a meeting to consider Yale's
letter and arrived at practically the
same understanding as arrived at by
the Cambridge men. Messrs. Koran
and Oakley exchanged views this even
ing on the subject of Yale's reply and
came to the conclusion that Oxford and
IBID VI 10
Cambridge. alone, is extremely anxious
to meet Yale.
THE WINNER WILL DO.
NEW YORK. July 2-Yale is dis
posed to accept reasonable change of
date to further the project of an in
ternational university track athletic
meet Charles B. Sheriff. Jr, chair
man of the Yale graduate advisory
committee on track athletics, said that,
as to Yale's meeting both Oxford and
Cambridge. Yale simply replied to the
EngIishmen's challenge, and that
Yale's only challenge was to the win
ner of tomorrow's joint Oxford-Cam-
bridge meet. As to an earlier date Mr..
Sheriff. said: while Yale thinks that
an earlier day than Oct. would be adj
visabIe. that question can be consid-
cred after the receipt OF the Briton's
formal reply
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