New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
English Stars
Likely to Win
In Dual Meet
Oxford.C Cambridge Team in
Fine Condition for Strug-
gle With Yale Harvard
BY Jack Masters

In fact, if past performances are to
be considered the invaders threaten to
win the first international track and
field meet held in this country in MANY
years.
Until this year neither Yale nor
Harvard has been particularly strong
on track and field, team championships
Ialllng for the most part to the lot of
pennsylvania and Cornell. With the
ADVENT ADVENT of Ned Gourdin, however, the
CRIMSON has forged to the front, and
Yale, with che brilliant Tom Campbell.
has shown vast Improvement
Series Stands Even
The first dual meet between the lead
ing colleges of Great Britain and the
United States took place in 1899 and
the following table will show that
honors are even:
ward, L. % are" mar
H., i9ol-Yale Harvard. 6; Oxford Cam
19o4-Yale Harvard. 6; oxford : Cam
10l1-Oxford- Cambridge e. ya,A-xJa
ward, 4. LA"
Six track and four field events COM
prise the card for the fifth meeting Of
these combined teams. The events and
probable entries follow:
100-yard dash-Abraham ana csrev,ry
Yale Harvard
sor s4oryard run-Rudd and Abrahams OK
Yale-Harvard
Half-mile ,runmcampbelI and sienans,
Yale Yale Ia Harvard; Miiiigan and latham, OK.
One-lnile run-Stalard and Miligan.
oxford Cambridge Campbell and O'Con.
neil, Yale Harvard.
Two mile run-McInnes and seagrove.
Ox1ord- Cambridge; Hilles and Douglass.
12o-yard hurdles--Krogness and Haues
| bridge 90 ~
~ 1,s-pound -put-Tolbsrt and Jordon,
Oxford Cambridge.
Hammer throw-Nokes and Burt. OK
| Yale Harvard.
running broad iump-Gourdin and Krog-
| ness, Yale Harvard; Ingraham and Abra-
mans, oxford Cambridge.
Running high jump--Landon and Krog
n nssS, 1aHie-aarvard; Burns and Dickinson,
| oxford Cambridge.
Only First Place Counts
In the above list / have placed the
teams as | believe they will finish in
each event, with the result that the
century, 440, one mile, two mile and
hammer throw are on the Oxford
Cambridge side of the book, and the
half-mile hurdles, shot-put, broad jump
|
ward athletes. Of course, these selec-
tions are made from a study of the
performances of the men, and, as in a
horserace, anything can happen.
Under the rules of the international
competition only first places will count
1T has been suggested thaa in case of q
tie, which appears likely, second place
be included in the point score.
Taxing the events in their order
hbrahams is given first place in the
lo0-yard dash because of his excellent
Oxford and Cambridge. Abrahams won
by more than four yards from Butler
and Rudd, and with serious competi-
ton would have bettered the time of
| 10 l-5 seconds in which he was clicked
on that occasion.
1t is true that both G6urdin and
Feldman have records of 10 seconds
flat for the distance, but neither has
been able to run to this time cor
sistently.
Rudd's 40 3-5 for the quarter mile.
which won for him the Olympic cham
pionship last August, appears to be
good enough to beat Wharton and
Chute, the Yale Harvard entry in the
440-yard run. In fact it is hardly
! probable that the Englshman will have
to step under SO, even, to carry first
honors.
Campbell in HaIf-Mile
The half-mile race is doubtful
quantity. Had Mountain, of Cam
bridge, made the trip from the old
country | would have conceded this
event to the English intercollegiate
champion, but as Mlligan and latham
will oppose Campbell and O'Connell I
am inclined to lean to Campbell. Tom
has trained hard for this event and if
he has completely recovered from the
dunn last April he should win.
Stallard is the. choice in the mile run.
Campbell is the logical contender here,
but after running the half the Yale star
would be easy for the British cham
pion, and l believe Stallard would earn
the verdict even if Tom stayed out of
the half The Cambridge man turned
1922 for the distance last March in de-
feating Milligan and latham, and
I O'Connell, Towards best distancer, has
never approached these figures.
In the two-mile race Hilles and
Douglass will need fivver to keep
within pacing distance of McInnes and
Seagrove, if the English pair display
the speed that they have recently been
flashing across the pond.
The 120-yard hurdle race is nearly
toss-up, but with George Trowbridge
the Oxford star and 10 30 per-
former, out of it because Of illness, the
chances of Krogness and Haues look
slightly better than even. Krogness
finished second to Earl Thomson in the
intercollegiate championship Earl
was away out in front, but the time
was IA 4-5, and the Harvard man
showed great finishing power
ToIbert's Great Heaye
Partridge, of Cambridge, will shoulder
the burden for the visitors in this
event. He has a mark of Is As, but
has seldom equaled it, so that witt
Krogness at the top of his form ii
I would seem he has the edge.
1t is hardly likely that the invaders
will threaten in the 16-pound shot-put
Tolbert recently Nheaved the iron bal
AZ feet 3is inches, while the best tina,
Reese, of Oxford, could do three months
ago was 80 feet / inch. Waterbury
will also step into the chalk ring
against Tolbert, but the former ha;
been beaten repeatedly by Reese am
will not figure.
The dope in the hammer-throwins
contest points to a one-sided victory
for Nokes, Oxford. This young gian
has mark of So feet inches
whereas this best that Brown, Of Har
ward, has ever done is lac feet inch
Ned Gourdin. the Harvard phenom
should predominant in the running
broad jump. That the dusky American
title holder, who is capable of better
t,. faat will aaet1,- otl,nr