The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-05
NORMAN \. TABER
GOES TO OXFORD
Brown University Star Runner
Wins Scholarship in English
Institution.
CAMBRIDGE HAS OBJECTIONS
Offering No Such Scholarships,
She Suffers in lnteruni-
versity Meets.

New York. January Norman IL.
Taber. OF Brown University. he crack
miller who ran dead heat with Jones'
of Cornell. in the last fntercolegiates'
and who finished ahead OF him IN the
1890 metres at the Olympic games.
will head the next American athieliS
invasion OF England. Taber Is atn-
leticaily the most promising OK the
next flight OF Rhodes scholars, and as
most good judges OF distance running
believe that he has still 10 show n's
best work ne may. az an oxford STU
denk and teammare, give Arnold JACK
son. the Dark Blue star All ne cen
handle at mis- fsvor1te distance Bolh
men are excellent scholars and hrse-
gether on the English tracks snoblo
bring out the best there Is in Doth
OF them.
II must be remembered that the
Rhodes scholars are picked princlpaiS
because OF scholarship and general an
round fitness. but most OF them nav
gone in for sort OF one kind or an
other, generally track work. ana thelh
records fn England are euvia bic, espe
ciaily with the weights. OF the 2So OF
so men vino have been gent from .hie
country to oxford, eight have con-
while nearly all Of them have par
ticfpated In some form of EnsIsh
sport. IL not for fame. al least Ior
pleasure.
Your average Rhodes scholar IS US
uaiiy well set UP and athletically m
clined. even II not up TO the topIhose
mark in achievement in actual cornpe
tition. and be can be depended spoh
to run as Loyalty or play footbah %
row as Loyalty for his adopted cor
iege or university as for his American
alma mater. In fact. IN the last oA-
ford C Cambridge Yale Harvard games,
AZ was the points scored for OXFORD %
an American Rhodes scholar that turn
ed the tables against the America u.s.
No chsnpts.skip 1T stake.
This IS as il should be. for there
IL no championship at stake In these
friendly competitions, and the Amer
lean college team Is admittedly nol
the best that could be gathered
gerher. 1t Is TO be hoped some daS'
of course. that the American inter-
collegiate winners can be pifted against
the pick Of the English. irish ana
Scotch universities, but in ine meaH
time. the deal meets serve the pus
pose OF bringing a better understands
ing between American and Enghsn
university sportsmen-
The principal objection to the use
Of the Rhodes scholars on oxford teams
comes naturally enough from Jam
bridge, which has no sHcn source oI
athletic supply. The oson'ans -, nsrs
against the Cantabs. as against Har
yard and Yale but IL il doubted IL
these men win ever be barred from
the English university games
Since the American students are ~
chosen primarily because OF athleuc
proficiency. they should have the right
OF free competition that belongs 10
anv English university man. ana hot
a few OF them have made tnemseNes
SO popular with their fellow st1dehts
that should any movement be starteo
10 bar them from the games there
would be an instant protest, both louo
ana long. Taber's appearance al OK
ford will be welcomed by the Engnsn
men. for with him and jackson on
the same team. the Cantaos WI naso
10 hustle TO keep pace in the distance
vents with the wearcrs OF the Dark
Blue
Americans Help oxford
oxford m the past has not inire-
ouently gained the upper hand owe.
Cambridge through the WORK -,
American Rhodes men Every ioilow
er of athletics on both Sides OF tne
ocean Will remember such rare per
formers as George T. Putnam and ",
%. Zeigle-, the weight throwers'
N yornz. the South Dakota hurdle.
and Jumper: Warren e Schutt- the oio
cornell distance runner. VINO was now
ever. not as successful in Ensla no az
he was at home; r. r Blake, Il, -
LANCE. u. r. Porter. the old bowoo,,n
crack. and +. W. Bucholz. the fiorlo1
r-n;xerstfv star. Outside OF the track
there have been fewer prominent
names. nut Donald Grant Herring. the
rack tackle OF the Tiger footos.'
eleven some years ago. achieved tns
unique distinction OF earning lui'
ans With the oxford Rugby fifteen.
-rhers have been other successful
American athletes in the English uni
.'a-ss,sss who were not Rhodes schol-
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