New-York tribune., 1900-08-17
ATHLETICS.
sYLvANIA TRACK TEAM RETURN
FROM EUROPE

Five members OF the University OF Pennsylvania
european track team arrived yesterday on the
Cunard liner Servta. which sailed from Liverpool
august !. The athletes who returned yesterday are
j. c McCracken l. K. Baxter. T. B. Mccain. ".
P Remington and E. R. Bushnell. The Quaker
team consisted of thirteen men. or whom the re-
naming eight are spending their summer touring
Europe. One of the members of the PENNSYLVANIA
team who was seen by a reporter of The Trtb-
une made the following observations concerning
the athletic contests at London and Paris;
mae aRe AmeTiGan athletes have no complaint
everywhere We went and were honored with ban
Peck. the United States Commissioner-Gener to
honor aS tb gave magnlncent banquet in
states Pavilion. american a''le'eS at tne United
The success which attended our athletes came as
"a sLeat surprise TO the Europeans. and especially
70 Jhe EngHshmen At the English championships
heId IN London We won eight out of the thirteen
contests, and in the remaining five events were
only entered in four. The only victories which the
which our men d 6o5 oome Tn5 o fher in
we're not at all fast. and in no event was an
American record broken. The mediocre work done
by the change of climate our trainers feared that
this would be the case before left America.
consequently they were not altogether surprised
T TTnen such men as Cregan. OF Princeton, and
EIt, EErsnItt, or Pennsy Ivania were defeated Several
E1nsHsh trainers IN commenting upon the work of
tne Americans said they did not expect
events as their distance runners had similar ex
periences when they competed in America In 1895.
thing before them, and astonished the Londoners
by the ease with which they defeated the English
men. The games eXcelently managed and
every contest was off with remarkable pre-
csion. In the management Of track and field
games the Englshmen ahead of the Americans.
At the worlds championships in Paris the vic
tories OF our men were even more pronounced than
IN London. Out of twelve championship events
tne Americans won ten. and out OF twenty-five
events on the programme America captured eigh-
teen ne management of the games by the French
committee. however, pueriIe in the extreme.
the selection OF the grounds. which in a small
Forest on the Bois de Boulogne There were so
many trees on the track that the spectators could
only see the finish of the races. besides getting an
occasional view OF the as they fitted
through the trees. The track FIVE hundred
turf.
There was thing which considerably incensed
the American athletes. and for a time threatened
70 be serious. This was the French treatment OF
the sunday question Before started we were
assured by the French committee that none Of the
events would be held on Sunday. After the Ameri-
cans arrived II was announced that several OF the
principal events would be held on Sunday. This
was in direct violation of the agreement previously
made by the French committee. As most OF the
Americans had received instructions from their
universities not 10 compete Sunday II became
evident that these events would be won by the ElI-
ropeans All Of the Americans protested against
this change. and finally compromise was reached
whereby only few OF the events were left TO be
decided on Sunday. and in these only those AmerI-
cans who were not bound by instructions competed
ON the whole we were not disappointed with the
result of our contests In Europe and when the Eu-
ropean athletes come to America 10 compete next
year We will treat them TO American hospitality
here.