The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-11
Gossip Of the
Sporting World.

9portina World.
AS noted a couple Of weeks ago it
begins to look, as the time of the con-
test draws near, that Harvard and
Yale accepted the challenge of the Egg
fish universities, Oxford and Cam
bridge, without due consideration of
the circumstances under which the
games will be held and the difference
in the standard of measurements and
rules. In the first place the English
grounds will be found a handicap, says
Sandy GTiswold. Again the English
jump from a running track, having n
short run leading up to where the track
begins and placing the standards for
the high jump just at the inner edge
of the track. In the broad jump man
may jump from wherever he pleases.
so that he lands in the pit, the measure
ment being taken from where he leaves
the ground to where there Is a DIS
tinct heel mark, not, as Is the American
rule, from where the earth is fl st
broken In the hammer throw, too, the
competitor has a 32-foot ring in viii h
to maneuver, and any throw which he
may let fly in this space is measured
from his foot mark to the weight. Thus
it may be seen that the Americans have
no sinecure in attempting to wrest
victory from the Englishmen on a track
entirely different from what they have
been accustomed to- and on which their
opponents, having had the experience
of the Oxford-Cambridge dual games,
are thoroughly accustomed. The hur-
dies are run on the turf, but this will
not affect Fox, for he can go as fast
that way as on the cinders. and his
daily practice is all being done on a
path especially laid on the grass on
Holmes nj yUb
Harvard and Yale will find a distinct
disadvantage is in the matter of train
ers. According to the dual agreement
no professional trainer will be allowed
to accompany the team, and right on
this point the Americans should have
made strenuous objection Thus It
can be seen that Americas Job is no
sinecure, and the outlook far from
roseate To win in England will be
found an arduous and difficult task,
and one which could have been made
much easier by taking steps to bring
off the meet earlier. However, the
main thing is to have the sports be-
come an annual event, and to serve this
end victory can well be sacrificed 10
the future good of amateur sport,
A sea monster that was captured a
few days since in the Great South bay,
Long Island, has been identified as a
| that ever was taken, by Professor w.
| r. Gordon, the principal of the Patch
ouge high school. 1t is rare in these
waters, being an inhabitant of the tenn
perate portions of the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans and the Mediterranean sea-
| and only two have been reported as
| captured since 1852.
| Here are some plans for American
athletes in Europe next year: A recent
report says that Barlow s. Weeks,
president of the A. A. U. and executive
member Of the New York Athletic club;
| D. Paul Newman of the Chicago Ath-
letic club, and Walter Camp have con-
sented to act as a committee to select
an American athletic team to attend
| the Olympian games at the Paris ex-
position next summer. 1t is believed
that this team will be independent of
| the college teams and will be formed
| from athletic club men. A represen-
| tative of the committee says that the
team will include not only track and
| field athletes, but oarsmen, swimmers
| and a water polo team. A correspond
ent In Chicago says that Governor
| Roosevelt has received an offer of the
honorary Craftsmanship of the com
mittee, and that he will probably ac-
| cept it. The plan of the committee is to
| send the special team on a tour through
| Germany, France and England after
| the Olympian games, and that an effort
| will be made to arrange series of
meets with the national teams in each
| of these countries. The Universities Of
| Pennsylvania and Chicago have already
decided to send independent teams to
the Olympian games.
A former officer Of Valkyrie, the Brit
ish yacht which was defeated by the
| Defender in the races for the America &
| Cup, basing his opinion upon his per-
sonal knowledge of the Defenders quail
tiles during the contest and upon the
reports of the Columbia's recent trials
with the Defender, said to represen-
tative of the Associated Press recently
that he thought the Shamrock had al
her work cut out, and he added that he
greatly feared the result This officer
| sailed on Britannia on her trial races
In the opinion of the yachting world
here Sir Thomas Upton has made g
great mistake in appointing two skip
pers, owing to the probability of a fric.
ton between them.
| It has now been decided Shamrock
| will not be locked here. Immediately
| after the trial races she will go to Bel
| fast for inspection by the Royal Ulster
Yacht Club. and will return to South.
ampton before crossing the Atlantic
She will be conveyed to America by the
steam yacht Erin, which will also &C.
company her on all her trips.
| There is an uncOntirmed report that
the racing gear of the Shamrock will
be shipped tomorrow on board the
| American line steamer New York, which
sails Saturday from this port to New
| York city.
Shamrock was not injured by going
in the mud Wednesday night.