International Meet

Five days before their biennial meet against the combined Harvard-Yale track team, the athletes of Oxford, of Cambridge, landed in the U. S. on wobbly sea-legs.

"Why do you come so late?" asked critics. "Because five days is enough time for our men to train in; and if it is not enough, we cannot afford longer," replied the Britishers. "Why have you no coach?" asked pressmen. "For the same reason: we cannot afford one," said they. At Cambridge, Mass., blond David, Lord Burghley, heard a pistol pop, took a step, two, three, sailed over a white hurdle, repeated this bounding, this stepping for 120 yards, winning the first event for England.

The 100-yard dash was credited to one Alfred ("Truck") Miller of Har- vard, a 200-lb. runner. Angry spectators near the starting line asserted that Miller, though no hurdler, had managed to jump the pistol.

A Yale freshman, one Sabin Carr, with a leap of 13 feet-took the pole vault and the fancy of the gallery, which perceived in him a likely intercollegiate champion.

Stevenson, once of Princeton, won the quarter-mile for Oxford.

Captain D. G. A. Lowe of Cambridge was conceded to have small chance of winning the mile against such runners as Ellsworth, "Red" Haggerty, Byron Cutcheon. To begin with, Lowe was tired. He had already spent himself to take the half-mile in the fast time of 1:53 2/5; moreover, it was obvious that the U. S. combination had passed a word around in the locker-room: "Kill off Lowe." First Cutcheon set a parching pace. Lowe seemed tired. Haggerty replaced Cutcheon, looking over his shoulder at the dark-haired, the Arab-skinned Lowe, three yards behind. So they ran until 150 yards from the end. Then Lowe, as if he had strapped the wind to his ankles, ran past the red Haggerty, won the race.

Counting first places only (as is the English custom), the meet was a draw, 6 to 6. Counting second and third places, it went to the U. S. team by 61 points to 47.

Of seven Yale-Harvard Oxford-Cambridge meets, the U. S. universities have now won four, lost three.

On Saturday, July 18, Oxford-Cambridge was scheduled to meet Cornell- Princeton.