Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
TO Change SCORING
Yale and Harvard Want Differ.
ent Method.
GIVE THEM BETTER CHANCE
To Win International Collegiate
Meet From Oxford and
Cambridge.
GIVE THEM BETTER CHANCE

Meet From Oxford and
Cambridge.
By EDWARD r. BUSHNELL.
If Oxford and Cambridge universities
accept both the heightened program
and the revised method Of scoring .sug-
gested by Harvard and Yale for their
international dual meet to be held this
summer. they will thereby decrease
their chances for victory. Harvard and
Yale want eleven events instead Of
nine. Likewise they want to change the
method of scoring So that instead Of
counting only first places they shall
count three places, using the Olympic
method Of scoring, by which first place
counts three points. second place two
points and third place one point.
If the program is made up Of the nine
standard events. used heretofore, and
only first place Is counted, the Eng
lishmen ought to win, because their
team would be a stronger all-around
combination than anything Harvard
and Yale now seem to have in sight
The events which the Englishmen want
are 100-yard dash, 440-yard run. half
mile run. one-mile run. three-mile run,
120-yard hurdles, high Jump, broad
Jump and hammer throw. To this NUM-
Der the Harvard and Yale men wish
to add two Of the following three
events: 220-yard dash, 220-yard hurdles
or the shot put. Two years ago Oxford
and Cambridge beat the American col
fsgians by one event. but il two of the
three suggested additional events had
been Sdded the chances are that the
Americans would have won by a score
Of to 5. The chances of an American
victory would be still further advanced
by change In the method Of scoring:
EncE5nmen have always contented
themselves with one or two star per-
formers in the various events, while the
Americans with keener competition
have as a rule had more likely point
winners.
Present indications are that the Eng
1ish team will be one of unusual
strength. In the sprints it will have
Macmillan, who last year did 8 As Sec
onds for 100 yards and was correspond
ingly fast for the quarter mile. I'm
down at the Olympic games and did not
reach the finals. II the 220-yard dash
is put on the program Macmillan would
be the favorite for it also.
The star Of the English team would
undoubtedly be A. N. Jackson, winner of
the 1900 meters run at the Olympic
games While jackson has always con-
fined himself to the mile run, he is WON
derfully fast at the half mile. and could
probably win both Of these events from
The Englishmen have never been beaten
in the three-miie run. and the chances
are that they would win that again.
For the hurdles Anderson of oxford is
undoubtedly a better man than any, one
Harvard or Yale has. He was the man
he foor rod most in the O1vm-
pic games last summer, and had he not
had a nasty fall in his senli-final heat he
would have made all sorts of trouble in
the final. Whether or not he could do as
well for low hurdles is a matter for
conjecture. Considering only the nine
events which have been standard hereto
FORE the Englishmen would be superior
In five of them. namely. lOO-yard dash.
44O-yard dash, hal-mile, one-mfle and
three-mile run. This would give the Eng
with the possibilities Of defeat In the
quarter-mile, but with an equal chance
to win the 120-yard hurdles.
Americans Strong In Field Events.
The Americans would undoubtedly be
stronger in the high jump broad jump
and the hammer throw. II the English
men are. given their choice OF two Of
the three suggested additions to the pro-
gram they would undoubtedly select the
22O-y ard dash and the shot put The low
hurdles is neither an English nor an
Olympic event, and to add 1t to the pro-
gram would be to invite certain defeat
in it.
The chances are that the EngIishmen
will oppose any change in the method Of
scoring points. Since the games are to be
held in this country, it would add consider
ably to the expense of the visitors to bring
along enough men to have chance at
the seconds and thirds. with which the
Americans think they can win.
When the games are finally arranged
there will undoubtedly be some chatting
on the part Of other colleges, particularly
IL Harvard and Yale do not finish hrst
or second in the intercollegiate cham
pionships, and 1t Is almost a certainty
that they will not. In England it is as
sumed that since Oxford and Cambridge
represent the collegiate strength Of Great
Britain, Harvard and Yale must be
equally as representative of this country.
Such. however, is net the fact Two
years ago Cornell and Pennsylvania could
have gotten together q combined team
which would easily have defeated Oxford
and Cambridge. The chances are that
the Quakers and Ithacans could pick a
team this year able to beat in decisive
manner either Harvard and Yale or Ok
ford and Cambridge.
What a good many Americans would
like to see would be an international
collegiate meet between the pick of the
college men on this side and the pick
of the college men in the British en-
pire. Such a proposition was made on
behalf Of the Intercollegiate A. A. A. A.
five years ago by Gustavus T. Kirby.
The proposition was to pick a team
from all the colleges of the United
States to meet similar team picked
from all the colleges and universities
of the British empire. the Englishmen
being permitted to use men from ire
land, Scotland and all the British colo
MES, provided the Englishmen vouched
for their eligibility. The proposal was
turned down by the Englishmen, be-
cause they said they had no organiza-
ton to get such q team together. Such
a meet has been suggested several
times SINCE but no official action has
been taken either here or abroad
Penn Crew Troubles.
The Athletic Association Of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania intends to con-