The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-28
YANKEE COLLEGE
men ARE BEST
Recent Records Show They ex-
cell In Most Track Events

Boston, Mass, March 2S.-The per-
iormanees In the annual athletic meet
between, oxford and Cambridge. held
AT the Queens club last Friday, were
nothing beyond the ordinary, with the
exception of the running broad Jump
ma The one and three mile runs. If
harvard ana the Yale should meet the
hrltons In the stadium on Soldiers
neld as proposed, the chances for an
American victory would be brilliant
indeed
Nv lhe event of the proposed NEE.
lns taking place with the same events
on The program as in England, the
visitors could not hope To capture more
IMAM three of the ten events. with a
pare chance To land a further victory.
Where Britons Excel.
In the running broad jump Ashins.
ton Of Cambridge cleared % feet 50,
inches. which would be good enough
to win against any American competl-
tor. In the three mile run Ganssen of
oxford covered the distance in l441,
which would be too fast for any dis
lance man at either Hazard or Yale
with Paul Wilmington out Of the run
ming.
| In the mile ran, II. $. Jackson of
! Oxford had no trouble in winning ia
4:25 Ia, but this is the same Jack
son who cleaned up John Jones. Abal
Kiviat. Norman Taber and the rest of
our American cracks IN the l.5O0-mr-
ter race at Stockholm, Jackson can
run the mile well inside of Arc and
would romp away with this race on the
parlor track at Soldiers field
Ziegler, the University Of Iowa stu
dent representing Oxford, did 40 feet 3
inches in the l6-pound shotput Friday,
and a repetition might win the fourth
victory for the visitors should HiegIcr
elect to compete against his country o
men. IN 1917 @. T.. Putnam, an Amel
lean student at oxford, won the nam
mer throw in the meet against Har-
ward and Yale, and his victory gave
the odd event to the Brtons.
| HmoTiCdH beSt III OPEIHto'
The track at the Queens club ia
West Kingston, where the games were
held Friday, is probably the fastest In
England. Schck of Harvard was cred
tied with Al seconds for the hun
dred, and the track, three laps To thu
mile, has wide sweeping turns espc-
cialy adapted for fast time
The time for the l00-yard dash a
the queens club, 10 20 seconds, woulu
not indicate that the OXonians and
Contains were rich in sprinlers, and
either Harvard or Yale should swim"
the short sprint comfortably.
In the quarter mile ID. Gordon-pa' q
les got miserable start and then nm
shcd In 81 seconds. Harvard has two
men who can do 80 seconds or bsttcr
and the Americans have also better
performers than Ashington of cam
bridge. who covered the half mile III
II Is. Ashington must be a versatile
athlete, as il was he who won the
broad jump with such a remarkable
performance and also captured th'
hurdle race.
, Hurdlers Easy for Harvard.
The hurdlers should go to Harvard
: with Cummings The British perform
ance, i6 LIS, would not bother the Har-
ward captain under ordinary condl
tons. In the running high jump the
athletes from across the water wotld
not have a chance as . feet SIS inches
should not be taken seriously as com
nared to the stars that Harvard alone
| can produce, not to mention lhl"
jumpers.
/, In the hammer th-o," Gable, The col
ored youth AT Harvard would throw
circles around Ziegler should til'
American represent oxford.
First places only would count In th'
event of the international college meet
and Il may be- "A case of nine Instead 81
? ten events with the shotpnt eliminated
! as In England on three occasions rms
p would make the chances of Harvard
. Yale victory all the stronger.
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