At Stamford Bridge

Track meets are won on paper, lost on the track. Judged by past performances, the pick of Yale's and Harvard's runners and jumpers were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination--until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown of Oxford, Runkel winning the 220 and 440 events in quick succession. White of Oxford won the one-mile run. Weightman Smith and Lord David Burghley of Cambridge left their guests clumping behind in the 120-yard high and 220-yard low hurdle races, respectively. All that the Yale-Harvards could do was win the three-mile run, the shot-put, broad jump and pole vault. Two Cantabs out-leaped Wolf and Larsen of Yale in the high jump. Since only first places counted, the meet score finally stood Oxford-Cambridge 7, Yale-Harvard 5; a victory of stamina over statistics.