The Washington times., 1920-07-25

Princeton recently won six OF ten
events from oxford. In the sprints-
they were victorious as in the hurdles
and weights. The famous b. G. Rudd.
of oxford, who ran at the Penn Relay
games last spring in Philaueiphia
when he was anchor man Tor the Two
mile worlds record teams, was un-
beatable in the Ox1oro-frihee'o''
meet.
Rudd won the quarter in so seconds.
was second to Brown, OF Princeton
in tho hundred in 10 fat; won the
balf-mile from Murrey in 1894. MIL
Iipar another member of the famous
two-mile team which visited here, was
a winner. in the mile in 4:3l1, while
Montague. who was forced to tran
Gordon Nightingale, the New Hanp-
shire star in the special three-miie
event I'm the Penn game, came through
a winner over Allan Swede in the OK
ford-Princeton meet, in Is minutes 10
seconds.
WON SIX EVENTS.
Princeton. with Harrison Thomp-
son and c. F. Sweet winning first and
second in the high jump; G. ID. Hal
sew and Dick Cleveland winning hrst
and second in the shot. with ~ 1eet
5l5 inches; T. L. Speers winning the
hammer with 1877 feet IN inches, and
u. B. Lourie winning the the running
board Jump, with 81 feet b lnches'
took six of ten events.
According to what account nave
been recorded regarding these col
1eriate duels, the Britons have been
more successful in the long run. The
history OF the meets dates back as far
On In1y nf
ford beat Yales team at Kensington
by the margin of 5h events to 31a.
w. o. Hickok. of Yale, won two or
the three and fraction thereof events
of the Bulldogs. His victories were
in the hammer throw and shot-putting
events. L. b. Sheldon, one OF fales
best all-around athletes of those days
took the running broad jump and was
second in the high jump.
In the autumn of 1895 Cambridge
sent a team to compete at Manhat-
tan Field, New York, against yale.
who won by the score of events 10
,. Hickok was again double VIC
tor. while w. NJ. Richards, of Yale,
won the 100 yards and 800 yards
sprints. Sheldon again won the run
ming broad jump. This meet was
held in October.
CONFINED TO CROSS.
In 1899 another combined team
from Yale and Harvard went abroad
to meet that combination from OK
ford and Cambridge. The British col
legians won by the score. OF hVe
events to four.
All Of the first places registered
bv Americans were won by men from
Harvard. J. II. Quinlan captured the
1OO-yard dash, i. u. Fox the 12O-yard
hurdles. w. A. Beal the hammer
throw, and A. n. Rice took the run
ming high jump.
In the fall OF 1901 oxford and Cam
bridge sent team to compete with
Yale and Harvard at Berkeley Oval.
New York, September %. The New
England athletes won this dual meet
by the score of six events to three.
J, S. Spraker, of the Bulldogs, was
the individual star OF these events.
winning the broad and high jumps.
w. A. Beal, the Crimson weight man,
was in that meet again, winning the
hammer throw. At that time a heave
less than 137 feet was good enough
to win.
LAST MEET IN 1911.
The last set of dual games was held
at the Queens club grounds. July II,
1911. and the British athletes won by
the score of 3 events to 4.
Paul II. wilmington, whose entry
was accepted for the Diamund sculls
in the Henley race this year. but was
not followed out by the noted Grim