The Portland daily press., 1899-07-24
The Young Contestants I'aAqaettsd
in the Evening.
A Ambassadors Speech in
Behalf of Vanquished.
A Contest on This Side the Pond
Next Year.

London, July s2.--The international
college games were. won by England CO.
day. tive points to 4. The Englishmen
lead in the long jump, the mile run, the
quarter mile run, the half mile and the
three mile. Ire contests were witre,s SEED
by n great throng. Many OF the nobility
including tho Prince Of Wales were
rresent. The assemblage was brilliant
one and the skies smiled on it for the
day was fair and hoG The athletes were
in the best Of condition and there was
nothing to mar thu success Of the oena-
sion. 1t was hard fought contest with
out bitterness on either side
THE BATTLE OF THE ATHLETES
The long jump was won by @. G. Vas
/ sail, Oxford; q. ID DAILY, Harvard. sec
ond: J. T. Roche, Harvard, third, and l..
II. U. Bevan, CamhriGge, fourth Vas
sail led Off with % feet 8 inches. followed
| by Roche with 81 feet inShes. Besan,
who followed. did not mals 20 feet. and
the jung was not measured. Daily
came next with % feet Ia inches
In the second trial YassaIl ju ped %
feet inches. Both Roche and Beyan failed
to do 90 fest, while DAILY made 81 feet
l-2 inches.
On the third trial vassall made % feet
inches and Roche 81 feet inches.
| Roche followed with 81 feet inches;
Bevan with 20 feet 1-e inches and DAILY
with 81 feet 10 Ia inches. In the fourth
trial VassalI made a splendid jump Of
% feet, Roche. Bsvan and Daily all fall
ing to reach 20 feet.
| In the fifth and last round, vasssn and
Revan were both under 20 feet. Roche
fell back and was not measured DAILY
did 20 feet 8 inches. and the English flag
was hoisted to record their first victory.
| Tbs hammer throwing contest was won
By wv. A.. Boal, Harvard; Holoombe j.
Brown, Harvard, was sesond, ard j. ID.
lGreeushields, Oxford, third Boal threw
/ 1856 feet 5 l-y inches; Brown, f22 feet
inches and Graenshields. 100 feet 9 inches.
In the mile run. A.Huntsr. Cambridge,
won; A. L. Dawson Oxford. ssoond; @.
Yale, fourth. TiiDe, 4 minutes "A seconds.
Freemantle took the lead, going at a
coed pacs and isd for the first two laps,
hunter closely following with Smith and
| Spitzer nsxt and Dawson at the rear.
On the last lap Freeinsnti# rstired and
Hunter, running strong, soon put a wide
gap between himself and the others,
Dawson going up to second place. En-
teripg the straight for home. Splitter
made q gallant attempt for second place
and drew level, bat after a few yards
Dawson again passed him, and finished
men were greRtsy exhausted ami Splitter
especially. He was unable to walk and
| had to be almost carried tn the pavilion.
Hunter won by 81 yards.
| The half-niie run was won by II. k.
Graham, Cambridge. q. II. W. Struhen,
Oxford was second; ]. Y. Adams. Yale.
was third, and 4. K. Burke. Harvard,
was fourth. Time, I'm. 81 1-ds. Gvaham
won By 10 yards.
| Struben led for the tirst lap, followed
| by Adams, Graham and Burke In the or
der named When this lap Ind been COM
plstsd Graham went to the front and run
ming In splendid style won by about
leight yards, amidst excited cheers from
the Engiishmen and depression and
silence on the part Of the Americans.
Strubsn was second and Adams third.
Burke was last and did not finish. being
| SO badly used up that he had to be sup.
ported to the pavilion md carried up
stairs. His trainer said that his stoin.
aoh had gone Lack ON him.
The quarter-mile run was won by o. q.
Dawson, Cambridge. ID. Boardman,
YaIB. was secoad; I. r. Fish.r, Yale
third; and A.. H. Rollins, Oxford, fourth,
/ Time. 40 60 seconds. Dawson won by
five yards.
1here was level start ard Boardman
cut out tho paca at q tremendous rate
i Entering the straight for home, Hollini
| just led EoRrdman. with Dawson last.
A bout 70 yards from home Dawson came
up with tremendous rush on the out
side and won by five yards. Boardman
rolled considerably near home, INA king
a grand, but hopeless struggle.
The winning OF the quarter mile run
by the Epglishmen WAS a great upset and
10 was now generally regarded that they
would win a majority of this events, as
the three-mile run was regarded as q Ger
tainty for them.
lhs high jump was wen by Rice Of
Harvard who cleared @ feet. G. NJ
Rotch, Harvard, was out at feet Il
inches.
i The hurdles was won ty Z. b. Fox
Harvard: W.. Paget 1omiinson, Cam,
bridge, was second; II. r. Parks. % xford,
third; and j. W. Hallowen. harvard,
fourth.
II In the hurdles Fox lad from start tt
finish and won by 2 t-2 yards, there be
ing half a yard batween Paget.
son and ParkG There WINS tremendou
i cheering from the Yale and Harvard
islands when it was announced that Fo,
had eIualled the British amateur rae
ord
The lO0-yari dash Was won by Quinlan
Harvard. @. h. Thomas, Oxford, wa
Isecoud; u. A. Blount, Ysla, third, ahs
A. l.. Hine. Cambridge, fourth. Winner
time, 10 seconds.
In the 100-yard dash Biount got first
Iawsy and led for 40 yards, when Qufu
Ian and Thomas drs~ level. Qainlan
win q splendid spurt. won an exciting
race by halt a yard.
I A tremendous waving of AmeFseAl
tlags and N shouting of the Harvard ant
Yais. University yells grested the victor,
of thu Harvard man.
/ Tins three mile was the next event OF
the day. After gUiug anous 60 YArds the
Englishmeu singied themselves out n
lsne. Wifhsrfores, just leading WufkmaS
tha Yale Harvard team following elne,ly.
This order was retained during the ssta5 si
lap, ex oept thet Palmer wens up flfz
feet At the mile, the tims WAS fcu