Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-30
AMERICANS Excel
in english
SPORTS

L0NDON.--A cry of "the world
against Cambridge" is being raised
by the undergraduates and alumni of
the university on account of the grow
ing strength of American and Colon
ial Rhodes scholars on Oxford ath-
letic teams
In no year since the Rhodes Foun-
dation became operative have its ben
eficiaries been so prominent in sports.
The Oxford varsity lacrosse team was
the most striking example, only two
English players being selected. Five
Americans played on this team, and
the others were Colonials. Three
Australians rowed on the victorious
Oxford crew this year, and five Amer
leans and two Colonials were on the
victorious Oxford crew this year, and
| five Americans and two Colonials
we're on the track team which tied
cambridge.
Cambridge had a good all-round
track team this year, and the Cantabs
feel that they would have had walk
over had 1t not been for w. A. Zieg.
Ter, the Rhodes scholar from Grinnell
college, Iowa, who took both weights
for the Dark Blues with the greatest
ease.
The loss of the shot-put was all the
more CALLING for Cambridge. as, To-:
the first time in years, she had a shot
putter who could heave the lead forty
feet. Zeigler did not fear this rival,
but he was after the Oxford Cam
bridge record of 4S feet 10 inches, es-
tablished by w. w. Coe, another
American, and came within seven
inches of It
International Meet.
Cambridge track experts admit
rather freely that the victory of Ok
ford and Cambridge two years ago
over Yale and Harvard was due to-
the prowess of Zeigler, and they have
often expressed the opinion that an
other challenge would not be received
from the other side until the big
Iowan had left Oxford.
But the challenge, in spite of this
opinion, is here, and there is little
doubt that it will be accepted. The
English team win be one Of the most
uneven aggregations ever organized
for such meet. On 1t will be two
or three stars Of the first magnitude.
but TO give The necessary competition
It will be necessary to include a few
athletes who would not shine in an
fnterscholastic meet in America.
The story that some of the old-time
stars would appear on the team is dis
credited. and 1t is hardly likely that
more than two of the men who COM
peted against the American universe
ties two years ago will make the trip.
Polo Prospects.
The Duke of Westminster claims
that his stud. for the challenging Eng
lish popo team is fully equal to the
stable which Harry Payne Whitney
brought to England In 1909, but even
so he is not yet satisfied, and he has
issued an appeal to English poloists
to supply several more ponies, prefer
ably weight carriers.
If the English team that goes to
America is again beaten this year,
they will not be able to use the stero-
typed excuse that the superiority of
the American ponies caused their
downfall. Among the volunteers who
have stepped forward to provide the
two or three weight carriers needed
are Capt. Edgar Brassey, who is lend
Ing his noted gray mare; Capt A. s.
Willis, who has offered the best of
his stable, and Lord Ashby st. Ledg-
ers, who has offered one pony.
With the idea of recovering the
polo cup the Duke of Westminster
formed a stable of forty high-class
Donies but only seventeen of these
have come up to the standard required
of international polo. A total Of thirty
seven ponies is now in sight for the
work this summer in America, and
only few more are needed to make
the stable complete.
Capt. Thomas Fleming Day, the
American who piloted the motor boat
Detroit across the Atlantic last sum-
mer, probably will be selected as the
officer of the yacht which |
Sir Thomas Upton will send to San
Francisco to compete in the races
there during the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Exposition. The yacht will
be called the Shamrock, and will be
the fifth of that ilk If the New York
Yacht Club gives Sir Thomas the
privilege of sailing Shamrock " for
the America cup.
The yacht will cross the Atlantic |
under its own sail, be towed through
the Panama canal, and go thence up
the Pacific Coast to San Francisco, |
again under its own canvas. The
racer will be conveyed by Sir Thomas
steam yacht Erin.
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