Monday, Jul. 30, 1923

Defeat by the British

Oxford and Cambridge countered sharply after their recent defeat by the Yale-Harvard tennis team at Newport by winning the international track meet at the Wembly Stadium, London, 61/2 points to 51/2 According to the English custom only first places counted in the scoring. Out of six meets in the series the English universities have won three and the American three. H. M. Abrahams, Cambridge captain, won three points for the British team by taking first in the broad jump, the 100 and the 220 yard dashes. Tevis Huhn, Princeton graduate, won the low hurdles for the Englishmen giving them the one point margin of victory.

Next day at Stamford Bridge a baseball team, " picked up " from the American collegians, with Captain Eddy of the Yale nine (an outfielder) pitching, defeated the London American Legion, 3-1. This was the first defeat for the Londoners this season.