The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-25

witness the running of the famous
annual Boston A. A. marathon race
and on Saturday the week will close
with the yearly relay carnival of the
University of Pennsylvania at Phila-
delphia, which assumes an interna-
tional aspect due to the presence of
the oxford university four-mile re-
lay team representing England in the
premier event of the days program.
These games always attract a large
gathering of athletic enthusiasts to
Franklin Field, but the presence and
personnel of the oxford team is such
that the meet is of extraordinary in
terest this season.
In this race, which is for the four
mile college relay championship of
America, ten colleges and universe
ties have entered teams to III against
Oxford, making a field of eleven
teams or forty-four runners, each
of whom will run n mile. Both
east and west is represented since the
list includes Harvard, Cornell, Chi
cago, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Col
gate, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania State,
Ohio State and Boston college. Large
as this field is, however, Oxford is
the logical favorite, since by NEAR
of the Rhodes scholarship system and
unusual circumstances the English
university has a team of remarkable
mile runners garnered from several
parts of the world.
The Oxford team which consists
Oh Arnold N. S. Jackson, winner of
the 1,50O-meter race at the Olympic
man S. Taber. Rhodes scholar from
Brown university, Providence, U. S.
A; G. M. Sproule, Rhodes scholar
from Australia; d. N. Gaussen and
G. S. Robinson, both young English
athletes of note, is a combination of
unusual merit. Every runner on the
team, including Robinson, who is
substitute, has a record better than
4 minutes 80 seconds for the mile.
The latest test of the form and abil-
ity of these runners was in the dual
games between Oxford and Cam.
bridge at the Queens club in Lon
don on March OF. This meet was
held on track and field heavy with
the rain of a storm which continued
for several days previous to and dur
ing the games. notwithstanding this
handicap the Oxford runners showed
remarkable form in the long runs
Jackson won the mile run in hol-
low fashion in A minutes 23 1-5 sec
onds without being pushed at any
point in the race. Robinson set the
pace during the early laps, but
dropped out on the back stretch
after he saw that Jackson was a sure
winner. Sprouts won the three-mile
race, with Gaussen second, five
yards in the rear, in IA minutes "a
As seconds, a new record for these
games. The first mile was run in
4 minutes Al seconds with Jackson
and Gaussen trailing the field. The
only disappointment was Taber's
The American was selected for this
event because Jackson and Sprouie
were considered sure winners in the
m and three mile races. respective
ly. .Taber was defeated by twelve
yards by Atkinson of Cambridge in
l minute Sc 2-5 seconds. Taber and
the winner had a neck and neck race
for almost the entire distance and the
result was in doubt until the Ameri-
can cracked near the finish while At
kinsOn had just enough reserve to
stagger across the line.
Since their arrival in this country
the Oxford representatives have been
training at Brown university, and
will leave tomorrow for Philadelphia
for a final tapering off in condition.
Their work at the Providence univer-
sity track has been both fast and
consistent and while the American
college entrants have all been TAIN
ing hard for the race there does not
appear at this time any practice rec
ocds to warrant the belief that the
Oxford four will be defeated. Should
any of the teams entered arise to
the occasion as American athletes
have a 2arit of doing, it will be n
of the most notable victories of the
49,: season of sport.
In New England the feature of
the week is the running Of the eigh-
teenth annual marathon race of the
Boston Athletic association. The
history of amateur marathon racing
in the United States dates back to
September 10, 1896. In the spring
of that year the first revival of the
Olympic games was held at Athens.
A small but representative team of
American athletes entered and won
a majority of the events, but the
marathon race was done by Loues,
a Greek. The American athletes on
their return to this country were
loud in their praise of this event and
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