The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-05-22
ENGLAND SHORT
ON ATHLETES

London, May 1!.-Where is England
going to get the material for her
Olympic game team of next year?
If she is to make a show against
the team that is sure to be sent from
the United States she must uncover
some hitherto unsupported athletic
stars in the next few months. But
wherever these stars come from 1t Is
tolerably certain that the two big
English universities, Oxford and Cam
bridge, will not have the honor Of pro-
duoing them.
Present indications are that Eng
land will make an even worse show
ing against the United States in the
matter OF field and track events than
she did three years ago. If we ex-
cept Macmillan, the Cambridge uni
versity boy who won the 100-yard
event in even time, the recent Oxford
Cambridge sports at Queens club, Lon
don, demonstrated that there is not a
single athlete of championship calibre
at either Of the universities. 1t would
be almost joke to send even the win
ners of the several events to an
Olympic meet.
oxford, especially, is in a. bad way,
Although the outcome was quite ex-
pected, to win only four events out
of ten contested with its great rival
was a poor showing in view Of the
mediocre ability Of the representatives
of Cambridge AS it was, Oxford had
to depend upon two Rhodes scholars,
both OF them Americans, to win two OF
the four events she carried off.
In winning the hammer throw, G.
e. Putnam Of Kansas, set UP new
English university record of 1853 feet,
3 inches. w. o. Zeigler of Iowa took
second place in the same event and in
the weight putting event the position
of these two Americans were reversed,
zeigler winning with put of SO feet
Ga inches. In the hammer throw the
best an English representative could
do was 106 feet.
Macmillan gives promise of being a
real champion. His winning of the
10O-yard dash upset all calculations
of the experts who had conceded the
event to r. L. LANCE, the American
Rhodes scholar from Oklahoma The
latter led up to within six yards Of
the finish when Macmillan came with
a rush and won by a foot, in very
much the same way that Walker car
ried off the 100-yard from Rector In
the last Olympic games.
The broad jump went to Oxford,
whose representative could not do more
than 81 feet, 9 inches. The mile was
won by Cambridge in minutes, 20 2-5
seconds, the 120-yard hurdle by Cam
bridge in Is 1-5 seconds; in the half
mile, which also went to Cambridge.
the winning time was l minutes, So, lis
seconds. A jump OF feet, 8 "a inches
won the high jump for the same uni
versity. The 440 was captured also by
Cambridge in the fairly good time Of
81 3-5 seconds. Oxford won the final
event of the day, the three-mile, in
Is minutes. 8 seconds.
BY these indications England can
hardly expect to do as well at the com
ing Olympic games as she has hereto
fore. Lieutenant Halswell, who won
the 44O for England at the London
meet, Is getting along in years and
probably will not be available next
year. At the present moment there is
no one in sight to take his place and
that event looks like following the
others into the American column
voight, the little runner who captured
the 5-miIe event so easily for England
three years ago, is still stepping In
good form and will probably account
for the event again II he completes.