Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-20

has been rowing together for more
than a month a victory is looked for
this spring. Coach Ellis Ward thinks
that this race gives many candidates
chance to learn how to row who other
wise would be lost in the wedding out
process.
This crew is made up of the men not
available for the other boats and sew
eral very prominent oarsmen have
been discovered in this way.
There is some likelihood that within
q few years, possibly next year, the
stewards will put on race for fresh
men eights. Yale, Pennsylvania and
Harvard have sent down freshman
crews at various times, and the stew
ards think a race for all college fresh
man crews would be quite as attractive
a feature as is the race now for junior
college eights.
international Track Meet
1t IS now almost certain that the
plans for an international track meet
between Harvard and Yale, represent
ing this country, and Oxford and Cam
bridge, representing England, will soon
mature and that the games will be held
in Cambridge some time this summer.
Both Oxford and Cambridge are very
keen for the meet. Yale, for a time,
held back, but the Ellis have now been
persuaded to try conclusions with the
Britons. Just now there is g peculiar
hitch in the arrangements.
Harvard objects to the presence on
the oxford and Cambridge team of any
of the American Rhodes scholars from
oxford. For once Harvard has some
ground for making protest.
The three Americans who would be
thus affected are w. e. Schultz. the
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American two-mile college record;
Stevens, the former Yale hammer
thrower, and Young, the South Dakota
high and broad jumper.
All three of these men are graduates
of American colleges, and If they We're
still in this country would have long
since outlived their eligit-.lty. The
members of the Harvard and Yale
teams are strictly undergraduates, and
it would be unfair to make them COM
pete against graduates of such long
standing.
If the colleges stick to their old
method of scoring only first place men
it is doubtful if the competition of the
three Americans at oxford would af-
feet the result in any way.
Schutt could probably beat any Amer
lean runner in the mile and two-mile
events, but he is only a second-string
man on the English team. Stevens
in the hammer throw would certainly
be beaten by Gorsburg of Harvard and
Young would not have any chance at
all against Knox and Marshall of Yale
in the two jumps. So as far as re-
suits are concerned Harvard might as
well waive her protests.
Pennsy and Cornell Lead
Although nobody wishes to deny the
right of the Harvard and Yale teams
to meet Oxford and Cambridge it is
that the representatives of
this country should not be the strong
est in the college world.
This year there are two universities
which are almost sure to finish far
ahead of Harvard and Yale in the in
tercollegiate championships.
These the Pennsylvania and Cornell,
if the Harvard-Yale team is beaten it
will be generally thought that the Eng
lish have proved their superiority over
America on the track, when such will
not be the case at all.
An international meet which would be
much fairer TO America and would GER
tainly attract more attention, would
be for the winners and seconds of our
intercollegiate championships to form
a team to meet the Britons.
Then, if we were beaten, there would
be no room to make excuses. The pro-
posed meet contains much that is un-
to Americans in general.