The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-19
BOXING,
WRESTLING,
AQUATICS,
TENNIS, POLO
GOOD CHANCE TO
BEAT AMERICANS.
oxford's Prospects in Four Mile
Relay Event Very Bright

New York, Jan. 10. - England's
chances Of defeating America in the
first international contest of 1914 viii
be unusually good when the oxford
university four-mile relay team com
petes at the University of Pennsyl-
yania meet al Franklin field. April %
According to the present plan the
oxford quartet will consist of -four
runners who when considered as a
team, aie not equalled i'm the collcg-
late world today. Arnold y. $. Jack
SON winner of the l.500 metre race
~ the olympic games of 1912, will
captain the team. His first lieutenant
viii be Norman 5. Taber. Rhodes
scholar from Brown university, win
ner Of the 1913 \. A. L. mile champ
ionship and Il number Of American
Intercollegiate titles. G.. NJ. Sproule,
captain Of the oxford cross country
team and Rhodes scholar from Aus
FalIa will be third man, while Basil
kudd of South Africa, also a holder
Of Rhodes scholarship, will COM
pleto the team
mus happens that by peculiar
CONFIDENT oxford has a quartet of
nile runners drawn from the four
quarters of the world. every one of
winch can run the miIe in four min
u'es twenty seconds or better. All,
nave figured prominently i'm the fall
sports OF the English university and
because OF their varied experience I'm
"'uouaI ana International competi-
uon' VIII form most formidable
'''n' both from the point of time and
Slcadnoss.
formidable Quartette.
Jackson and Tabcr have repeated,
run the mile between AIS and 40
''' are excellent judges of pace and
,purt Rudd was originally one
''i miller, with a record of 1:56. but
'' '"oWh the speed and endurance
"V'eSSdly FOR the mile i'm the longer
".''S' Srroulc is a long distance
,'"'' Tor whom the mile is an easy
,'' '''u ne possesses Il burst of speed
~, n, the hnish that makes him appear
'" Splinter in the final one hun
~" SdI'S. ON a fast, dry track this
.t'"' according to English experts.
, ''''u run the four miles without
~, ' ''oreaklnS effort inside seventeen
a. ''eS 'lifty seconds. Judging from
Wv past records of the men they
.,'Oulu bee able to cut fifteen seconds
r u'S' figures if pushed hard.
WIN John Paul Jones graduated
a "' retired from the cinder path il
MIL, " We hard to select a team of
=, ''s from among al the colleges oi
United States whose records
H., e''' warrant their being even favor
No. 's'ihSt this marvellous auartc,
.. 'na'rlculatcd at oxford. If an,
sd :, .''''S' or university in the Unit
ra. S'''es hats at this time four milcrs
i,n,,, 10 test the oxford team to the
Nm '"e average college trainer is
~ ol the existence of the team.
y. runners Are Scarce Here.
Ct these are the conditions v.,;cn
Sin. &c complied with at the Univer.
mi. 'ehhsylvania relay carnival.
Mich, cornell, Pennsylvania or
colloa7 SIT inc home Of long distance
,lorai ''''''ers, can develop "A sensa-
les, - 'o' Tor this international con-
la,s TIE odds will be long on oxford
Can april Even the best Amerl-
Coo, cord, ,- for a similar racing ex-
bol5 100 The Boston A. A. team
mad, Wv " " L. record of 1881 Ia.
wbo. a, Easton. Pa, ON June H. 1919
liz; "' intercollegiate record of
isr was made by Cornell team or.
Tn :" the Pennsylvania RELAYS
raco "Y -. Pennsylvania team won the
so.o. 'as' year in is minutes and Cd
Star, "0s defeating Princeton, Ohio
ves,o,1 ie"hSylvania State and North
Tn University in the order narod
lauvno"u and blue team consisted of
Gulhro, M'Curdy. Madeira anil
I' or tho ,,...