Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-22
j. 5. COLLEGE
RUNNERS MEET
OXFORD M|LERS

Next Saturday will be held the
yearly relay carnival OF the Univer
Sity Of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
peCt due to the presence OF the OK
ford University four-mile relay team
representing England in the premier
event of the days program. These
games always attract a large gather
ing of athletic enthusiasts TO Frank
lin Field, but the presence and per
sonnet 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, 10 colleges and universities
have entered teams to run against
Oxford. making field Of II teams or
"A runners. each of whom will run
one mile. Both East and West is re-
presented since the list includes Har-
ward, Cornell Chicago, Pennsylvania,
Princeton. Colgate, Dartmouth, Penn
sylvania State, Ohio State and Bos
ton College. Large as this field is,
however, Oxford is the logical favor
tie, since by means of the Rhodes
scholarship system and unusual cir
cumstances the English university
has a team of remarkable mile run
the world.
The Oxford team, which consists Of
Arnold N. s. Jackson, winner of the
1900 meter race at the Olympic games
at Stockholm in 1912; Norman s. Ia
Der, Rhodes scholar from Brown Uni
versity, Providence, U. S. A.; G. M.
Sproule, Rhodes scholar from Aus
tralia; ID. n. Gaussen and G. S. Rob-
inson, both young English athletes of
note, is a combination Of unusual
merit. Every runner on the team in
Guiding Robinson, who is substitute,
has a record better than Am. 30s. for
the mile The latest test Of the form
and ability of these runners was in
the dual games between Oxford and
Cambridge at 1.-THE Queens Club in
London on March q. This meet was
held on track and field heavy with
the rain of Il 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 ia hollow
fashion lin Ana. % sa-Ss without being
pushed at any point in the race. Rob-
|inson set the pace during the early
laps, but dropped out on the back
stretch after he saw that Jackson
was a sure winner. Spronle won the
three-miIe race, with Gaussen second,
five yards in the rear, in 14m. "a 4-5s.,
a. new record for these games. The
first mile was run in Am. Ais with
jackson and Gaussen trailing the
field. The only disappointment was
Tabers failure to win the one-half
mile race. The American was select
ed for this event because Jackson
and Sproule were considered sure
winners in the one and three mile
races respectively. Taber was de-
feated by IL yards by Atkinson of
cambridge in I'm. Sc 2-5s. Taber
and the winner had a neck and neck
race for almost the entire distance
land the result was IN doubt until the
American cracked near the finish,
while Atkinson had just enough re-
serve to stagger across the line.
Since their arrival in this country,
the Oxford representatives have been
ltraining at Brown University, and
will leave tomorrow for Philadelphia
for a final tapering off in condition.
Their work at the Providence Uniyer-
sity track has been both fast and
consistent and while the American
college entrants have all been train
ing hard for the race there does not
appear at this time any practice re-
cords 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 habit of doing. it will be one of the
most notable victories of the 1914
season of sport