The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-23
OXFORD
LIKELY TO EARN TIE
Dope Points to Even Break in
Meet With Yale-Harvard
To-day.
BY DANIEL.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 22.--On the
eve of the big International track and
field meet between the combined Harvard
and Yale teams and the Oxford-Cam-
bridge forces those who attempt to
dope" out the probable winner find
themselves in the same fix as Alice in
Wonderland. We areN inclined to ven
ture one prediction and let the Mad
Halter the March Hare and the other
attend to the rest. 1t looks very much
like a tie-an even break in winners in
the ten events. 1t must be remembered
that in the scoring only winners will
count. The American proposal to score
on the American plan was rejected by
the Britons.
The dope sheet points to the following
winners: One hundred yard dash, Gour-
din, Harvard 440 yard run, Rudd, Ok
ford: $50 yard run, Rudd. Oxford; one
mile. Stallard, Cambridge two miles,
McInnes, Cambridge; 100 yard hurdles,
Krogness, Harvard high jump, Landon.
Yale broad jump, Gourdin, Harvard !:
shot put, Tolbert. Harvard and hammer
throw, Nokes, Cambridge.
1t will be seen that both Rudd and
Gourdin look like double winners. OF
the two the Oxonian Is the more likely
to come through. and he may even go
further and prove the first triple winner
in the history of international intercol-
legiate meets. The South African APP
pears to stand a fine chance to upset
Gourdin and Feldman of Yale in the
dash. Rudd, it will be recollected, won
two events, the 440 and $50 yard races
last year, when Oxford lost to Princeton
in London. Four other athletes have
been double winners in these meets. In
1901 the Rev. Workman, Cambridge.
took the half and two mile runs, and
J. s. Speaker of Yale won the broad and
high jumps. In 1894 w. o. HiclSok OF
Yale took the shot put and hammer
throw. w. NJ. Richards of Yale won
the 100 and 800 yard dashes in 1896
the only time that two spirits were on
the programme.
Tonight there is confidence in both
camps--but marked disinclination to
worry about the result Both sides want
to win, but good fellowship is the domi-
nant keynote, and whichever team loses
won't regard the result as a tragedy
Rudd says that the Americans through
their strength in the field events have
the edge. but the Yankees are inclined
to see things the other way. If Camp
bell of Yale shows a return to his early
spring form he may beat Rudd in the
half. but the chance is slim. Then there
is the hope that Douglas of Yale will put
one over In the two mile, but the Ellis
will have to beat McInnis and Seagrave,
both of whom have gone faster than he
has. Another American chance involves
the hammer throw. Nokes of the Brit
ish forces has been doing 160 feet, and
IL there is thrower of that calibre on
the Yankee team he has been hiding his
light under bushel. It's going to be n
tight meet and mighty interesting one.
particularly with the British taking on
Princeton and Cornell at Travers Island
next Thursday.
In view of the fact that it seems GER
tain that these meets will be annual
affairs from now on we have complied
the first list of records for these inter-
national competitions Involving Harvard.
Yale and Princeton and Oxford and
Cambridge or the ten best perform
ances of the seven previous meetings
five were turned in by Americans and
Ave by Englishmen. They follow
100 Yard Dasl1-9 As seconds, w. A. schick,
Jr.. Harvard. in ls0a 5000. -,
$40 Yard Run-49 20 seconds, G. @. Davi-
DON Cambridge, In 1890.
$50 Yard RUM 55 80, Rev. III. w. Work
man. Cambridge. In 1901.
One Mile Run-f:2l 10, III. w. Gregson,
Cambridge, in 1904.
Two Mile Run-9:29 10, f. Gowan Taylor,
oxford, In 1911.
100 Yard High Hurdles--15 % seconds, G.
Erdman, Jr., Princeton. in 1920. and G.. A.
Throwing the 10 Pound Hammer-152 feet
3 inches, Thomas l.. Shevlin, YALE In 1904.
Running Broad Jump-23 feet, G.. G. Vas
sail, oxford. In 1900.
Running High Jump--e feet IL inches, j.
s. Speaker Yale, in 1901.
Putting the 10 Pound Shot-4f feet 5h
inchea @. ualaey. Princeton. in 1920.