The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-04-20
AMATEUR EVENTS
OPEN THIS WEEK
FAMOUS ANNUAL BOSTON a. =
MARATHON RACE TO ne 1uH
TODAY.
University of Pennsylvania Athlseao
Program WIN Re Carried Out
Last OF the week.

NEW YORK. April io.-The present
week viii usher in the 1914 season OF
usual Importance Today will Witness
The running OF the famous Boston A. A.
maratohn race and on saturday the
carnival of the University OF PennsyI-
Nania at Philadelphia. which assures an
International aspect que to the presence
of the oxford university four-fnile re-
lay team representing England In tho
premier event OF the days program.
gstherins Of atSisiie snthSsias,s ft TO
Franklin. Field. nut the presence and
personnel OF the oxford team Is such
the the meet Is OF extraordinary inter-
est this season.
In this race. which IS for the four
America, ten colleges and uniyersfties
have entered teams 70 run against Ov-
FORD. making field OF eleven teams or
run one mile. Both east and west is
represented since the list includes Har-
Yard. Cornell. Chicago. Pennsyivanis.
Princeton. Colgate. Dartmouth. Penn
syivania state. ohio State and Boston
college. Large as the field Il. however.
means OF the Rhodes scholarship system
and unusual circumstances the English
university has "A team OF remarkable
mile runners garnered from several
The oxford team which consists OF
Arnold ). ;. jackson, winner of the
at stockholm In 1912; Norman 8. Taber,
scholar from Brown university. Provi-
dence. L. s. A.; 81. NJ. Sproule Rhodes
scholar from Australia: II. n. Gaussen
and g. :. Robinson. both young English
athletes OF note. IS combination OF un-
including Robinson. who IS substitute.
has a record better than 4 minutes 20
sse 9ds for The mile The latest test OF
was IN the dual games between oxford
and and Sam bridge az the Queens club In
held on track and field heavy with the
rain OF n storm which continued for sew
eral days previous TO and during the
games Notwithstanding this handi-
cap the oxford runners showed remarL
able form In the long runs
.. SssSkson won the mile run IN hoissw
without being pushed at any Point in the
race. thompson set the pace during the
stretch after he saw that Jactson ~ss
mile race, with Gaussen ' second ON 'n svs
seconds. a new record for these gsmes'
Ihe nrst mile was run in minutes al
is e., ,h Win h JACKSON and Gaussen trail
Nas Iaber's failure 70 win the one-hslg
vie race The American was selected
Ior THIS event because Jackson ana
Sproule were considered sure winner a.
the one and three mile race respectiveiv'
Iabcr was defeated BY twelve yards
~ Atkinson. Of Cambridge. in I'm Sc
EOS Taber and-the winner had a NECK
70 neck race for almost the entire dis
IT, elu we result was IN doubt until
me American cracked near tho dnish
while Atkinson had lust enough reeerya
70 EtaEger across the line
since their arrival IN this country the
oxford representatives have been trair.
mt ~ Brown IIVFersity. and viii leave
tomorrow FOR PHILADELPHIA for a final
aPerinN OF IN consistent and while the
American college entrants have eli been
trninine hard for the race there does
not appear ~ this time any practice rc-
cords to warrant the belief thaf tbs oS-
lofd -FOUR VIII be defeated should anv
OF the teams entered arise 20 the occas-
lyh az american athletics have n habit
able victories Of the 1914 season Of