Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-17
OXFORD RELAY TEAM
Will Compete Against American Team
 on April 25 at Philadelphia.

nouncement has been made of the per
 sonnel of the Oxford university four
 mile relay team which will run against
 the best of the American college fours
 at the University of Pennsylvania re-
 lay games at Philadelphia on Saturday,
 April 25. The English university team
 will consist of A. N. Jackson, Norman
 S. Taber. G. M Sproule and D. N.
 Gassen, forming the most cosmopolitan
 team that ever represented England fin
 8 track meet of the importance of the
 Pennsylvania games Jackson, the
 president of the Oxford university ath-
 letio association and captain of the
 team, Is the English runner who won
 the 1.600 metre run at the Olympic
 games in Stockholm in 1912. Norman
 8. Taber is an American Rhodes Schol-
 ar from Brown university and during
 his college athletic career was consid-
 cred, next to John Paul Jones' the best
 mile runner in American university
 athletics. Sproule Is a Rhodes scholar
 from Australia. captain of the Oxford
 cross-country team and a miller who
 has done 4.5o or better repeatedly.
 Gaussen, an English student at OK ford, has run the mile for the dark blue against Cambridge for the past two years. Basil Rudd, Rhodes schol- ar from South Africa, may come to America as emergency runner, though his best distance is the half mile.
 Taber the Manager.
 TaSer will leave England for the United States this week in order to make arrangements for a reception and quartering of the English university runners, since he has taken much of the responsibility for the trip and the mana cement of the team upon his own shoulders. The other members of the | euaFtette will leave early iH April and l according to the present plans. will do their preliminary training at Brown university, Providence, where Taber is thoroughly familiar with both track and climatic conditions.
 The final week previous to the games will be spent at Philadelphia in order that the English team may become ac- customed to the quarter mile cinder | track upon which the race will be run.
 The Team Has Good Records. Every one of this Quartette has re- peatedly run the mile well under 4.30, which would give the team an aggre- gate time of IS minutes for the four miles. Under favorable conditions of track and weather and presuming that the English runners are not affected by climatic conditions, it Is expected that if the team is hard pushed the time will be much nearer IT than IS minutes. The Pennsylvania relay four
 mile record is 17.55. made by the Cor nell team of 1911. and the best Amer ican outdoor record 17.51 Is. made by the Boston Athletic association team at Easton, Pa, last June. The most formidable teams in sight at present are those of Pennsylvania, Cornell and Michigan, but they are not considered | better than Is minute combinations at this time.
 Incidentally the success. of the Rhodes scholars in the Oxford uni l versity spring games, in which they won eight out of the ten events, a sue | cess more pronounced than their sue
 cess in the treatments sports in No 1 vember last, proved a sad blow to the l pride of England. The Americans won l South Africa one, two remaining go 1 ing to England The attendance on ] the first established a record, largely ! because of the interest in the mile race 1 between Jackson and Taber. The fact 1 that Jackson won by five yards ir 1 APP 3-5 was the one redeeming feature | of the meet fro man English stand | point. Taber ran so well, however,
 that it is likely that he will run in the l mile for Oxford at the inter university
 sports with Cambridge March 27, while | Jackson will be reserved for the half mile event.
 FuItz Does Some Tapping.
 l David F'ultz, president of the Ball i Players fraternity, comes out in the | April Baseball Magazine attacking Secretary Farrell of the National as 1 sociation and his action in regard to l the minor league contract. What is worrying Fultz is the manner in which | MT. Farrell, evidently acting as repre- 1 sentative of the National association, | entirely ignored certain concessions | relating to side agreements which were i adopted at the Cincinnati meeting. At 1 this meeting, upon the suggestion of 1 Garry Hermann and Ban Johnson. it | was voted. without dissenting voice. | that When it was found that a team 1 had entered into a side agreement with ! a player, it should be fined $500, and i the player receive unconditional re- ! lease" When the minor league con- | tracts were sent out, however, it ap- | peared that the clause covering this 1 point had been materially altered as l follows: The player entering into such agreement may be suspended for 50 days without pay: the manager fined 1 s1O0: club fined not less than s100 nor more than $500. and the player given 1 unconditional release" F'ultZ, accord ] ing to his own words. could not see ! why the player in such circumstances | should be suspended for 50 days with | out pay. nothing had been said to | that effect at the meeting. So he inn l mediately got in touch with Sexton i and Farrell of the National associa- l ton and a rather unsatisfactory cor respondence followed between them. | In the end F'ultz instructed minor 1 league players not to sign the contract | at all. Through the efforts of Presi- l dent Barrow of the International 1 league and President Chivington of the 1 American association, however. this in 1 struction was withdrawn, and at the 1 resulting conference held in New York | nl@ T