Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-11
AMERICAN TEAM
LOSES 1ST Event
Rhodes Scholar From This Side
Wins Hammer Throw at
West Kingston, Eng.
KELLY SPRAINS AN ANKLE
Fourth Struggle Between Athletes
Representing Britain and the
United States Opens.

Queens Club, July 11.-Engiish-
men won five fists in nine events.
With America End England tied with
| four victories each. Philip John Ba-
ker of Kings college, Cambridge,
! turned the scales for the home team
by winning the one mile run today.
1t was the most exciting interna-
tional university contest yet wit
| messed.
The only running event captured
by an American was the half mile
| won by B. NJ. PrebIe, Harvard. Ba-
ker won the deciding event by five
yards. Amid great enthusiasm at
the finish the crowd swarmed on the
field and the band played God Save
the King" and Baker was carried
away on the shoulders of his COM
rades.
The running high jump was won
by Wooster of Garfield of Yale, 8
feet IL 3-S inches
The running broad jump was won
by John R. Holden of Yale; 22 feet,
9 IA inches.
The half mile run was won by B.
R. Preble. Harvard, 1857 1-5.
The two-mile race was won by E.
Gowan Taylor, Pembroke, Oxford,
9;29 1-5.
The quarter mile was won by F.
G.. Black, Pembroke. Cambridge;
40 AS seconds.
The mile run was won by Philip
John Baker, Kings, Cambridge.
July 1.-THE sun shone for the Amer
can athletes today, and this is taken
as a good omen for the men from
Yale and Harvard when they troop2d
into the field for the fourth struggle
against the combined forces of OK
ford and Cambridge. American college
men were there in crowds, and there
were several hundred American women
carrying flags of blue and crimson. The
Americans appeared in fine condition
except Herbert w. Kelly, Harvards S
quarter miller, who sprained an ankle.
In the first event, hammer throwing,
the American team was beaten by all
American, G. E. Putnam, of Kansas,
Rhodes scholar at Christ Church and
member of the Oxford Cambridge
team. Putnam nrade Isl feet incheE;
Childs. 140 feet, inches. The 12U-
yard high hurdle was the second event.
G. r. l.. Anderson, Oxford, had with
drawn, and America made an easy race
of it. 1t was won by George A. CHS
holm, Yale, in Is 2-5 seconds. The
1OO-yard dash was won by Duncan
Macmillan of Cambridge, in 10 1-5
al, ID Vol
is FOURTH STRUGGLE.
New York, July 11.-FOr the fourth
line since the proposition to match
the boasted prowess of the American
college athletes with that of the Eng
Iish university men was first mutually
accepted IL years ago, the merger
forces of Harvard and Yale will meet
a Cambridge-Oxford combination today
in London.
In the last two Of the three similar
contests the Englishmen have been
beaten easily by a total of IL points to
6, and in the first meet, in 1909, they
barely won by the margin OF one point.
Notwithstanding this showing it was
the Englishmen who renewed the idea
of a meeting this year. Harvard and
Yale promptly accepted, and On June
"a last 1S sprinters, runners. jumpers
and weight thTowers-the pick of the
track teams of the two universities
embarked at New York for another in
vasion of England, confident that moth
ing less than an upset by seasickness,
climatic change or accident could pre-
vent the annexation of another inter
national event. Late reports from New
Brighton, the little seaside resort near
London, where the invaders have had
10 days training, have indicated no
such ill-luck to blight the assurance of
conquest.
LESS CONFIDENCE IN TEAM.
There has been and is at home,
however, among close observes of
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