The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-21
AMERICAN TRACK TEAM LOSES TWO STAR PERFORMERS
Harvard-YaI Combine Faces Oxford- Cambridge Team
 Saturday

LONDON, July 20-The combined track anu field team of Yale and Harvard. meeting Oxford and Cam bridge in combined array at Wilbley saturday, will have 10 face the test Tn this, the classic International in- tercolleglate meet of the year in Europe, lacking the best efforts of two American stars. Billy Comins, broad jumper and sprnter, and Ed Rusnack. sprinter, both of Yale. are stlll under the restraint of lame ten oons, and the chances of the Britons, which seemed rather slender a fort night ago, have now enhanced con- siderably
 The British expect a close result, but they concede in their informal discussions of the meet that the Har- Verd-Yale athletes are likely to make the poie vault and weight events without very sturdy competition. Johnny Mack, track coach of the Yale team, recently intimated that Schlopp of Yale and Martingale of Harvard would win the pole vault. He also made bold to predict that the American anvil jigglers would win the shot put. But even a week ago, his confidence with regard to the short races was rather shaky and that was taken to mean that Comins and Eusnack were in bad shape, for these men at their best would be expected to keep their heels in front ot the fleetest English sprinters
 Can't Predict JumpA.
 It is difficult to give reasonable predictions as to the outcome of the jumps, for M. C. Cheney of Yale, the man who will have to do the winning for the American team in the broad jump, will be sent against 24-foct leaper. Abrahams of Cam . bridge. Dickenson Of the British Nsquad also will be no novice to beat in the jumps.
 In the quarter mile race, Stephen son, the British champion, is expect ed to win from Chapman of Yale, but the quarter probably will be the most stirring event of the day. Lowe or Milligan may win the half mile because Torl Campbell of Yale. though great It times. is not the most reliable runner and sometimes does not run up to his work
 In the mile, Douglas Of Yale seems the most important entrant and likely to win easily. Shargrove will crowd any miller in the world and Is a great finisher if he is within over hauling distance, but Douglas. on form, is expected to beat this Briton. The experience of Mclnnes should enable him to win from Tibbetts of Harvard in the two-mile run.
 Climax Of Season.
 The Arericans arrived here July 9 and went first to Cambridge for q visit. Thence they went to OK ford for a weeks training to un- skip their sea legs and accustom the enselves to the climat te. The track meet IS the climax of a sea son frauSht with strong international interest. The British runners went to America in the spring tc com pete. with indifferent success, in the Penn relay carnival. Since then there have been numerous international competitions betw cen amateurs. The Wimbledon tennis tournament was won by Suzanne Lenglen of France on one side and Little Bill Johnston of the United States on the other; the American Walker cup golf team
 me ovcr and retained the cup, and Matter Hoover, the American oars man, returned to England to lose the Diamond souls cup, which he won a wear 1CO.