The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-26
ENGLISH ATHLETES PLANS.
College Team That Will Meet Ameri-
cans Preparing for Practice

cans Preparing for Practice.
DLIc SPECIAL
New York. Aug. 2a-Before leaving Bos-
ton for Montreal yesterday. the Oxford
cambridge athletes. at a conference with
representatives of Yale and Harvard. de-
cided to meet and compete for International
honors at X oval on September Is.
The change Of date from September q was
N o~eference to a desire Of the boys to see
une ynoht races. at which they will be the
euec4 of Sir Thomas Upton. They start
fog horfN on October 5
There will be nine events. viz: 100. 40,
eD yards. one-mile and two-mile runs. high
ana iong jumps. high hurdles and throwing
the hammer. Only first places are to count
IN The scoring. The apparatus and conduct
OF the caves viii conform. except in some
miner Rirticufe$a. to American usage.
INA xaie men who will form the team
a&nnst INA EnHlishmen are. in a word.
yale point Winners in the Harvard Yale
meet and intercollegiate championships.
fais ard Harvard will each send one man
into every event against the Britishers, ana
each college selects its own teams as II
chooses. without regard to the other. in
making the selection.
Yale and Harvard Selections.
Just who will represent Yale and Harvard
Is a matter to be worked out between now
and the end OF the training season. but both
universities will need to give their very
'9' III tht HcH WHO were ellRlDle Tor
the dual games which were held in Nav are
eligible for this meet. and there Is certainly
a great deal Of good material In the two
teams. As 1t appears now. each side seems
quite sure of winning three events because
OF acknowledged superiority In these par
ticular events.
These are. for the Yale-Harvard team.
the hammer throw. the high jump and the
low hurdles: for the Oxford Cambridge
team. the half-mile. mile and two-mile runs.
according to cable dispatches, Hind of
Cambridge has twice done 9 rs seconds in
the hundred in open contest. This would
appear to give the sprint to the Englishmen
also. To win out. then. Yale would need
10 take both the Quarter-mile run and the
broad jump. which. with Boardman and
spraker. would not seem an impossibility.
Records Of the Principals.
Following the the records Of the principal
men in their events. as far a. they can be
obtained:
One hundred yard cash-Hind (cambrdeel ,
-; Churchill oc). 10 seconds: Hargrave ~. 10
seconds: L;ghtner CHI. 10 Is seconds
Quarter mile ~run-Cornish (o.), 81 IS: Board
man YJ. % 3-5: Clerk H.). 81 is.
haif mile run-Workman (C). I m. 81 IS Sec:
Sieave to). l m. 50 rs Sec: Behr H.). 3 m.
10 sec: Applesate H.). . m. . sec.
Mile run-Cacheiott (C). m. Is k5 Sec. ore.-
son C). = m Is Sec: Clark H). 4 m. . Is Sc.
Two mile run-workman tC.). . m. 50 SIS Sec;
NaJs . H. ~ Sec: TeeI (Y.), D m
one hundred and twenty yards hurciesHoarer
,oJ' IL Sec: Aiicock Co.. 10 IS Sec; C1app or.
p . sec: Converse H): Hallowell CHJ: VIII
Hish ~1ump-smith co.. s n. Iox in.; Buckley
eOl. . n. 10 In: Speaker (H.l. 9 n. 3 IN; Rotch
H.l. 6 II. I in.
Broad 1ump-cornish Co). q II. s in.: Hender.
son c0C. z It. . in: Daily (H-l. y H. . in: spra-
ker tfD. 2 II. "a In
Hammer throw-May Co). III n. IL in: Boal
oh-'. ia n ~ In: Stillman %. III n. . in.
Harvard's Preparations.
Inc Harvard team will train on the farm
u henry Il Whitney Of North Cohasset,
MAS. The present plans are to take about
twenty men. among them the following:
One hundred yards. Lightner, Haigh and
Meoo; 40 yards. Rust. Manson and Clerk:
80 yards. Boynton and Baer: mile. Clark
ana Knowles; two miles, Swan, Mills and
Rchardson; hurdles. Willis and Converse:
nigh jump. Rotch and Ellis: broad tump
Shirk and Ristine: hammer, Boal. The team
VIII be trained by John Graham. The Yale
team will be under the care of Captain Rich
ard Sheldon and Trainer Murphy, and vim
Train at Sfmsburg. Conn. Both teams vim
begin work this week.