The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-15
yABER And JACKSON
TO MEET OVER MILE
oxford Captain May Decide to
Reserve Yankee for Three
Vile With Cambridge.
-,uODF> SCHOLARS MIGHTY
1,oyeu> and Dawson Others Of
,mcrira adding Strength
to English Squad.
,o,cq. correspondence 10 THr srS.

n,tnrn. England. Feb Rich with
,,ri.tt,. gems o. thc frst wltcr--not over
,.,pc that several of them are Rhodes
t,t.rs from the United states. Canada.
.,,rt Africa and Australasia oxford
r,,,,r.lt, has ia store for next month
OH athletic treat of unusual magnitude,
rnen Norman = Taber. graduate of
. proU7 University at Providence. r. l..
,,d his remarkable English conqueror at
the 1912 olympic games, A. y. ;. Jack-
.ou. meet in the varsity mile.
what a race IT will be II Tabcr has
b..ore acclimated and both are on
edy,' n is safe to say that no such
mile will have been run either M oxford or
,,r,bridre as the Olympic winner and
r,hcr are considered likely to reel off on
the varsity running track nj the lilly
to,d grounds ON the outskirts of this
scholastic and historic city.
Later I'M March. when the OXford-Cam-
bridr,. ntervarsitN sports--that's Angli-
ann for track athletic meet. and two
words shorter. 10y the same token--are
Md Al Queens club grounds in the West
end of London. the British athletic world
.pd many American soiourners within its
gates MAY enjoy the rare spectacle OF the
sam. Two i,t5 milers of International re-
,ptc fighting out the third fierce struggle
of their rubber. At Stockholm their
,,.etins was over the regulation Olympic
,oi,rs, Of 500 meters. Jackson winning
sensational race Ivy barely one yard
from Kiviat, AZ whose shoulder was
wabcr. with John Paul Jones only an
srm's length away.
II - quite likely. though. that Norman
raber may got his blue" in the inter
varsity suorts as Oxford's finest three
miller For II Is next to certainty that
Cambridge cannot develop any one capable
N beating either of them in the mile !.
and as there is no apparent need for
oyford 20 run two such rare milers the
American may be exploited as ONford's
t-st string in the three miles. Properly
trained for the longer race Taber would
lave an excellent chance to score an in
tervarsity win in his freshman year
although he and v Il. Haven (Rutgers,
L s. A aud w. c. Dawson. princeton,
/ : A., might he termed "A tough bunch
Of seasoned campaigners for the English
slioolboy freshmen to stack up against.
IN the same category must be put the
iwo other winners--tive Rhodes scholars
won the whole programme of this win
ttrs trcshmens sports at OXford-who
were Basil Rudd tSouth Africa) and l..
A Southee ,Australia.)
Even " Norman Tatcr should have his
1eyengc in the varsity mile upon the
stockholm worlds champion. it might not
lel MN from btllls ITfssfu INTO SERVICE
i0 the intervarsity sports AS oxford .
premier three miller. In the first place
A : Jackson is captain of the track
tam ard president OF the oxford Uni
,ersity Athletic club. OF which his ath-
. la'ic uncle. cyril y. Jackson the great
OF hurdler Of his day and since then one
Of the Dons of Hartford College-Oxford
University comprises nineteen colleges and
H,o balls. which seem to be embryo col
sgcs tast never have grown up) has
teen tine guiding spirit for thirty years
or mon, Saturday. then. young Jack
son, should ne wish to. could run for OK
'ord in the in,eryarsity mile coupled with
. norman Taber, even II the latter were
fo beat him beforehand in the oxford
varsity mile hut Jackson is no such
arbitrary captain as that: rather would
ne b. likely to canvass the situation earn
,s'ly with his uncle ana Taber, and per-
h3ps other members of the team. The
outcome probably would be suggestion
hat the former Rhode Island crack should
20 Tor the three mile and leave the mile
safe with Jackson.
At their best there cannot be much be
tween them at mile but the American
ayp les known to be "a fine runner over
longer routes, at which Jackson has not
been tried out, II may be recalled tina,
when Norman Taber ran for the Ameri-
cau intercollegiate cross country cham.
ponship he accomplished "A fine perform
auce and finished second to John Pau
Jones who made the pace "A cracker al
ih5 way and beat the record for the
course This winter he ran second to the
redt Australian amateur. q. NJ. Sproule
captain of oNford's Cross-country team
IN The thirty-fourth annual intervarsity
p loot ateeplechase OF seven and hall
miles, and here too the winner bea,
record for the course al minutes 81 sec
onds, N which he cut seconds) in or.
der 70 make sure of holding safe the for.
n'r Brown University athlete. II was
grand rare between them all through
The sixth and seventh miles of the course
Although two bXonian Rhodes scholars
sproule Australian and Taber (U. s
y hu'Shsd one two In the thirty fourth
annual iN'erNarSlty cross country race Of
seven and a half miles. and although tho
forW-r ran a new record for the course
: Vet Cambridge ou--according to the way
. ne ran" Is figured out at these two uni
Vers ties
Zach team comprises five men and thu
contest q, won 10y the team making thu
'9WeS' number of points. one being SCORED
o' iHr first man home. two by the sec
oNn and 50 on until the whipperin. OF
zenith man. debts his team with ten points
As two ONuuians finished ninth and tent
on this occasion. while another. W. J
Pcarce, from McGill University. Montreal
me su.'ndid running of Taber ant
SpoH" vent for naught