Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-24

T HE announcement that in IA
3 proba bility the college athletes
III of England and the United
States will engage in great
dual meet next summer, after the
London Olympiad, is hailed on all
sides az -. tremendous factor in adding
interest TO the sport for the coming
summer. One thing IS certain
Harvard and Yale together would
make Il very poor showing against al
oxford Cambridge team during the
coming SUMMER, for the reason that
Harvard ana Yale represent Il very
small part of the strength of the
American colleges this year. on the
other hand, oxford and Cambridge be-
tween them possess Il large part of
Great Britain's college athletes.
The plan on foot ut present is TO
collect the best men at the inter-
collegiate games next spring and send
them to England as representatives Of
this country, both at the Olympic
games and at the big college meet
following. Thus representative
American college team will be secured.
including the best performers from
Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cornell.
Princeton, Michigan, Dartmouth, and
Amherst. The blending of the best
men from all these institutions is sure
10 produce a team that will be strong
in every department of the sport.
The result of the meet will largely
depend upon the showing of the
Yankee athletes in the runs from 44O
yards up. In the field events and
spirits it is almost certain that
America will triumph, and if we can
| land only a fair proportion Of the
runs the victory will be Uncle Sans
once more
1t is hard to pick the probable men,
bers of the American college team I'M
| til few of the spring college meets
come off, but it will not be amiss to
name such men as Cartmell, Haskins
and Taylor, the great Pennsylvania
trio: Rowe. the two-mile champion
from Michigan; Talbot and Cook, the
great Cornell field men, and athletes
of such stamp. While Cartmel
would find no easy task getting away
with the British college sprinters. it is
only fair to assume that he would win
the sprinting events. Then Taylor
the great colored runner is an almost
sure winner in the 40" unless he
| meets with an accident.
| The English probably would win the
half-mile, but with no mediocre per-
| Torrance at that, as George Whitley
the Princeton runner. is expected tC
show some startling running this veal
When the American collegians went
to England in 1904 the mile was won
| by Gregson (English) in 4.21, but il
looks as If they will have to improve
on that this year if Guy Haskins holds
his speed. The same may be said Of
the two mile. In the 1904 meet it was
run in $50, but this year America will
have Floyd Rowe of Michigan in the
running. Rowe's record of 934 at The
intercollegiate meet last June speaks
for itself With men like Taylor
whitley, Haskins, and Rowe America
will not be wholly lacking in points in
the runs.
The main factor in international
athletic meets is the condition Of the
invading athletes. a trip to England
generally produces a slump in the
work Of our best athletes, which is
| gradually worked off after a protract-
ed stay. This fact was we'll Illus
trated by the experience Of n. j.
Cartmell. the Pennsy Splinter, OH his
trip to the British Isles last summer
Upon landing in England Cartmell
| was so slow that he could not get out
of his own way, but after 81 months
training he worked off the spell that
seemed TO be hanging over him and
ran some Of the performances he is
capable of. This condition will work
we'll for the American college team
next summer. The team will have the
advantage Of a considerable period of
training and the Olympic competitions
before it lines up against the English
college cracks for the big dual meet.