Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-01-20
ENGLAND HOPES
To WIN VICTORY
BEST RUNNERS FROM FOUR COR.
NERs on WORLD TO con.
TEST MILE RACE.

NEW YORK. Jan. England
chances OF defeating America in tn,
first international contes, OF 1914
will be unusually good when the
oxford University lour-mlc relay
team competes at the University OF
Pennsylvauia meet a. Franklin Field
April 20. According TO the present
plan the oxford quartet will consis,
of four runners who. when consid-
cred as a team. are not cqualled IN
the collegiate world today Arnold
n. S. Jackson. winner Of the 1900
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 1919 a. A
L. mile championship and number
OF American intercollegiate titles. G..
NJ. SproulC captain OF the Oxford
cross country team and Rhodes
scholar from Australia will be the
third man while Basil Rudd o!
South Africa also holder OF a
Rhodes scholarship viii complete
the team.
II thus happens chat By peculiar
co-incident oxford has quartet Of
mile runner drawn from the four
corner OF the world. every one of
which can run the mile in four min
utes twenty seconds or better. All
have figured prominently iu the fall
sports of tho English university ana
because of their varied experience in
national and International comprti-
tion. will form a most formidable
team. both from the point of time
and s,cadincss. Jackson and Tabor
have repeatedly run the mile between
i:l5 and ago and are excellent
Judges OF pace and squirt Rudd was
originally oue-half miller, with 81
record of 1856. but has shown tho
speed and endurance necessary Tor
the mile in the lougcr trials. Sproulc
H. long distance winner FOR whom
the mile is au easy RIM ANA he pos
scsses q burst OF speed al the iinish
that makes him appear Ike a sprint
or IN tho final one hundred yards.
On fast dry track this team, ac-
cording 10 English experts. shoulu
run the four miles without heart
breaking effort inside Cf seventeen
minutes thirty seconds Judging
from the past records of the mon
tbcy should bc able 90 cat Fifteen
seconds OFF these figures II pushed
hard
with John Paul Jones graduated
and retired from the cindcr path 1t
would hc has, 10 select a team oi
milers fromr among all the colleges
of the United states whose record
would warrant their being even IA
vorites against this marvellous quar-
tet now majriculatol AZ Oxford. u
any one college or university In the
United States has a. this time four
runner. ready 10 test 'hc oxford
team 10 fhr limit DO, average college
trainer is unaware OF Che existence
of the team Yet thes" are the con
diiiou. which must be complied Win
AT the University of Pennsylvania ro-
Law carnival Unless Cornell, Penn
sylyauia or Michigan, me home OF
long di.tanc. college runners can
develop % sensational four for this
international contest the odds viii
bc long on oxford late in April Ev-
ON the best American records FOR
similar racing exceed 1880. The
Bostcn 4. 4. team hold the A. 4. L.
record o., 1851 l-5 made AZ Eastcn,
Pa. on June d.. 1913. while the
iuteroollegiatc record OF 1855 war
made by Cornell tenn OF 1911 al
tho Pennsylvania relays.
The Pennsylvania team won the
raco last year 100 ~ minutes and
Co.. seconds. defeating Princeton
Ohio state PcmsrIyaul, state ana
Northwestern University in the Or
der named. Ihc Rod aud Blue team
consisted OF Lagun"r, NcCurdy. Ma