Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-11
YALE AND HARVARD WILL MEET
CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD TODAY
Statistics Show American Team to Look
Better Than English-NeitherS Squad
Feels Sure of Winning.

eight Yale athletes, most of whom are of
the senior classes graduated last month.
Only one, Damon Howard of Harvard.
who Is entered in the hammer throw, is
freshman. Geogra phically. the men rep
resent seven states, with the majority
claiming Massachusetts as their home.
Following is a complete list:
Capt. Reginald c. Foster of Yale ac-
companies his teammates, but he has
been out of athletic commission for some
time past because of breakdown. Others
In the party are Richard G. Floyd, the
Harvard manager, who is in general
charge of the invading forces: Lester p.
Soule, the Yale manager, and Trainers
johnnie. Mack and Pooch Donovan OF
Yale and Harvard, respectively.
In all three previous contests the Eng
lishmen have consistently won the run
ming events-the half-mile, mile and two
mlle-while the Americans have just as
consistently captured the l0O-yard dashes
the hammer throwing and the hurdles
The quartermle and the broad jump
nave each been won twice by the Ameri-
cans and once by the Englishmen.
From Yankee viewpoint. therefore, the
real prize of the meet would be the cap
ture of the British stronghold-the runs,
in which the Englishmen have repeatedly
excelled-and it is all up to the Harvard
section of the team to wrest this prize
as all the American entries i'll these
coveted events are Crimson athletes
Jaques and Preble in the half mile,
Jaques and Lawless in the mile and Ryan
and Wilmington in the two mile Old
Eli had nothing to offer for these events.
Best Runners Not Entered.
Any one of the runs it is reasonably
certain, might be taken if the invaders
were but reinforced by the f1eet-footed
Jones and Burma of Cornell, whose won
derful feats at the Intercollegiate were
features not only of college athletics this
year, but in one instance epochmaking.
Jones clipped a fifth of second from
Connects world amateur record of six
teen years ago by stepping the distance
in 4.15 %.
What American colIegians might do
with such a championship team may be
but matter of patriotic consolation
however, for the Harvard runners, who
are the sole American competitors in the
three principal running events, are but
third and fourth place men in the inter
collegiates. If they win it will be a
pleasant surprise to college talent" in
spite of the fact that in each case the
American runners are credited with from
two to nine seconds better time than the
Cambridge Oxford runners report for
this year.
Conceding that the British will success
fully defend possession of these three
runs, there follow two events of which
there is something Of a Yankee cock
sureness. Chisholm of Yale won the 12v-
yard high hurdles in the Intercollegiate
in close to record time. In England he
will be slightly handicapped by running
on grass and because of the fixed hurdles.
which are customary with the English
men, but even with this disadvantage he
is looked to to win.
The Eli jumper, Holden. captured the
broad in the Intercollegiate at % feet IA
inches. and If he can repeat the trick in
England he will be about foot better
than the performances of either of his
opponents, Susskind of Cambridge and
Hartley Of Oxford. this year. Kilpat-
rick, the Yale captain. is entered in the
broad, too, and if Holden fails he is
looked to to win.
Harvard, because Of Capt. Fosters
breakdown, has no representative in the
sprint. Reilly and Thatcher of Yale,
both of whom have been credited with 10
seconds this spring, will meet Mcmillan
of Cambridge and Lange. the Oxonian
Rhodes scholar from Oklahoma, who are
also ten-second men. If there is ad-
vantage in the 1O0-y yard event, it might
be said to Turk by tradition with the
Americans, because of consecutive vic
tories in the run in previous meets. How
ever, a close fight is expected.
Kelly Looks Good.
For the quarter mile Kelly of Harvard
is the best man. having run it in 40 As,
one second shy of the intercollegiate rec
ord. Stewart, the Yale entry, claims 80
seconds. while their British opponents
are credited with but 81 and a fraction
this year.
Garfield of Yale is a likely winner of
the high jump, although this year he has
not eaualed his record of 8 feet inches.