Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03
OXFORD TEAM IS
FINE COMBINATION
Jackson, Rudd, Sproule and
Taber Will Compose Invin-
chile Relay Crew.
COLLEGE ATHLETIC NOTES

= Cambridge College, OF England,
awaits with interest the projected
starting of the oxford University
relay team in the relay event Of the
intercollegiate track and field day,
lin Field, Philadelphia, this spring
Cambridge has often raised the cry
of Cambridge against the world
when competing against Oxford.
The justice of such complaint is
well illustrated by the personnel of
the relay which is to make the trip.
Oxford's quartet includes an Eng
lishman, a South African, an Aus
tralian and an American. For cos
mopolitan relay team it cannot be
beaten. Nor can IL be beaten as a
crew of milers. Every one of the four
can do 4:20 or better for the mile.
The Englishman, who will captain
the crack team If 1t comes to this
country is the English Olympic hero,
A. N. S. Jackson, who defeated the
best in the world in the 1,500-metre
event at Stockholm. The South Afri-
can is Basil Rudd, who created a sem
sation in the recent Oxford fresh
men sports. G. M. Sproule is the
Australian. He is captain of the OK
oned the best hill and daler in the
British collegiate circles.
The American completing the four
is Norman Taber, a Rhodes scholar,
who last year sported the Brown Uni
versity colors. Taber was second to
John Paul Jones on numerous occa-
sions, fact which accounts for the
establishment of the former Cornell
ian's mile record. 1t is hard to figure
how the American colleges can hope
to cope with such a relay unless it
is unable to become acclimated.
The problem of how Michigan was
to play football against Harvard,
Pennsylvania and Cornell on sue
ceeding Saturdays away from home
this fall, a schedule that would re-
quire weekly trips of from 500 to 800
miles, has been solved by Pennsyl-
vania's announcement that the game
will be played at Ann Arbor on Sat-
urday, November Z, thus affording
Yost's men an opportunity to recu-
perate between games.
Rutgers College is said to be nego-
tiating with Carl Baumann, the for
mer Springfield Y. M. C. A. college
star, to coach its basketball team.
Baumann was a star of Barringer
High School athletics several years
ago, and was the best basketball
player ever developed at the Ridge
street school His playing with the
Y. NJ. C. A. College quintet, of which
he was captain, is a criterion in New
England. The Greystock team of the
Eastern Basketball League was ex-
tremely anxious to have Baumann
in its lineup, while the Crescents also
made overtures to him.
Although all OF the published data
of the National Intercollegiate Asso-
citation meetings held recently in New
York gave no linking of the fact, it
was announced yesterday that Pro-
fessor c. e. Bolser. of Dartmouth.
made a plea for numbered football
players and asked for action making
the designation compulsory.
DR.. II. C. Storey, gymnasium direc-
tor at the City College of New York,
was on New Years eve the recipient
of a silver tea set at the annual din
ner of the Society of Physical Educa-
tional Directors in Colleges at the
Faculty Club, of Columbia Univer-
sity. DR.. Storey was the general Sec
rotary of the International Congress
of School Hygiene. which was held
last August at Buffalo.
Princeton will meet ST. Johns Col
lege, of Brooklyn, tonight at the lat
ter's gymnasium in a basketball con-
test. Captain Driscoll. of st. Johns,
has returned from his holiday vaca-
ton and will be in the lineup.