The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-17
FAST BRITISHERS
COMING TO AMERICA
Oxford University Quartet Will Be the
Fastest That the College World
Boasts of To-day.

New York, Jan. l7.--England's chances
OF defeating America in the first inter
national contest of 1914 will be unusual
ly good when the Oxford university
four mile relay team completes at the
University of Pennsylvania meet at
Franklin Field, April %. According to
the present plan the Oxford quartet will
consist of four runners who, when con-
sidered as team, are not equalled in
the collegiate world to-day. Arnold n.
is. Jackson, winner of the 800 metre
race at the Olympic games of 1912, will
captain the team. His first lieutenant
will be Norman 5. Tabor, Rhodes scholar
from Brown university, winner OF the
1913 A. A. u. mile championship and a
number of American intercollegiate
titles. G. NJ. Sproule, captain of the
Oxford cross country team and Rhodes
scholar from Australia, will be third
man, while Basil Rudd of South Africa,
also holder of Rhodes scholarship,
will complete the team.
II thus happens that by peculiar CO.
incident Oxford has a quartet OF mile
runners drawn from the four corners
of the world, every one of which can
run the mile in four minutes twenty sec
onds or better. All have figured prom-
inently in the fall sports of the Eng
lish university and because of their va
ried experience in national and interna-
tional competition, will form a most for
midable team, both from the point of
time and steadiness. jackson and Ia
Dor have repeatedly ran the mile be-
tween 4.l5 and 420 and are excellent
judges of pace and squirt. Rudd was
originally onehalf miller, with rec
ord of l.56, but has shown the speed and
endurance necessary for the mile in the
longer trials. Sproule is long distance
winner for whom the mile is an easy
run and he possesses burst of speed
at the finish that makes him appear
like sprinter in the final one hundred
yards. On fast, dry track this team,
according to English experts, should run
the four miles without heart breaking
effort inside seventeen minutes thirty
seconds. Judging from the past records
of the men they should be able to cut
fifteen seconds off these figures if pushed
hard
With John Paul Jones graduated and
retired from the cinder path it would be
hard to select a team of milers from
among all the colleges of the United
States whose records would warrant
their being even favorites against this
marvellous quartet now matriculated at
Oxford. If any one college or univer-
sity in the United States has at this
time four runners ready to test the Ok
ford team TO the limit the average col
r 4 -
ence of the team. Yet there are the con
dtions which must be complied with
at the University Of Pennsylvania re-
lay carnival. Unless Cornell, Pennsyl
yania or Michigan the home of long dis
lance college runners. can develop SEN
sational four for this international CON
test the odds will be long on Oxford
late in April Even the best American
records for similar racing exceed 1870. |
The Boston A. A. team hold the A. A. |
U. record of l7,5l Is made at Easton, |
Pa, on June H. 1918, while the inter- |
collegiate record of 1855 was made by |
Cornell team of 1911 at the Pennsyl- /
yania relays.
The Pennsylvania team won the race |
last year in Is minutes and s 2-5 sec
onds, defeating Princeton, Ohio State, !
State and Northwestern
in the order named The red
and blue team consisted of Laugner, Me +
curdy, Madeira and Guthrez. OF the
quartet all are eligible except Guthrez,
who was graduated last spring. In or
der to run the four miles in anything
ike 1890 new material will have to be
Something of the calibre OF
his task may be gained from the state
nent that team selected from among
he winners of the mile runs in all the
NETS of 1913, barring
tones and Taber. would fail to show
lvepge time equal to that credited to
he Oxford four