The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
AT QUEENS CLUB,
American Athletes
Train on London
Grounds.
PRINCE OF WALES To Be THERE.
Walter Camp Says Men
Are In Fit Con-
dition.
PRINCE OF WALES TO Be THERE.

London July 15.-It would be diff
cult to imagine a more charming pic
ture than the Queens club grounds
presented this afternoon when the blue
and crimson-ribboned American uni
versity athletic teams made their first
appearance upon the scene of next
weeks contest. 1t was a typical English
day, with balmy air and a half clouded
sky, which combined to make athletics
pleasure
The Queens club is undoubtedly the
most complete athletic grounds ever
SEEM said Manager Wendell to the cor
respondent of the Associated Press.
I'VE know the charms of Travers Is
land and Bergen Point, but nothing
could equal those of the Queens club
1t is delightful to know that the oxford
and Cambridge managers appreciate
our desire to free amateur sports from
the charge of professionalism. The at
tention paid us here has exceeded any
thing we could desire"
Walter Camp, who accompanied the
teams across the Atlantic out of per-
sonal love of sports, watched the events
today and expressed satisfaction with
all the arrangements and the form of
the Americans.
Il do not know what next week may
do, said he, but there is every indica-
ton now that the Americans will enter
the contests in the finest of form and
ready to meet their opponents fairly
and squarely,. irrespective of results.
This is the charm of amG seur sports,
which we are fighting so hard to i'm
press upon the American public. The
only fault we find is that the public,
anxious to see the best, fastest and
strongest of all things, has not learned
to differentiate between amateur and
professional sport. We are rapidly over
coming this and frequent contests in
England will do much to bring about
the result which amateurs in both
countries so much desire"
The presence on the grounds of half
dozen of the Oxford and Cambridge
teams added to the interest of the
afternoon. c. N. Jackson, the honorary
treasurer of Oxford, and Capt. Hunter
of Cambridge, were presented to the
Americans and assured them of the
sincerity of the English welcome The
English athletes refrained from any
performance until the retirement of the
Americans to Brighton, when they in
dulged in a number of creditable tests.
Secretary Books of the Queens club,
who is making every effort for the sue
cess of the contests, expressed great
delight at the prospect of successful
games, and showed the Associated
Press correspondent the arrangements
that had been made for the accommo-
dalton of the Prince of Wales, the Duke
and Duchess of York and other notable
people who will witness the contests
The fact that English sprinters run
with the right hand on the inside of the
track, the opposite direction to the
Americans, is regarded by many as a
serious handicap upon the latter. Mr..
Wendell says, however, that the Amer
leans will be on training in that direc-
ton, and he thinks the question of d.
rection will make no material differ
ence.
The American athletes go to Brigh-
ton tonight, but will come up again
Monday and probably Thursday or
Friday.