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I 1 D Oxford-Cambridge Athletes Who Will Contest in HE athletes of Oxford tnd Caro brldae will upputie the pick of Harvard and Yale in an Intr-r-nattoaal tiuck and Held contest tlila year, and the affair should T rank aa the Rreat siort!nit event of the aaaon. It will bo the sixth meeting of tlieee Institutions. In thrte of the five preceding contents the victory stands to the credit of America and in the remaining two to that of England. The flrRt meeting nei-urred In KH, when Tale crosw-d the pond and tackled Oxford at the Oiieen'a club, London. After a Aicix which fuJriy bristled with stirring Incldnnta the Oxonians defeated the Ella by a acore of 54 polnta to 8H. Only the flrat In each event was reckoned In the tally. In the next year, is:5, Cambridge tri umphed over Oxford In their meet, conse quently the Ointalis were the logical op ponents for a return match "with the American, and they came over and met h.x xuannatian neid in the rail of that year. It was Yale's day of Joy, for the New Haven students won with a score 0m I'M t Meinwhlle. Harvard was plnlns; for a slice of the glory, and after some kicking and wire pulling the Crimson came Into the fray In W, when a Tale-Harvard pick went over and met a. similarly constituted array of Oxford and Cambridge. Again the Englishmen won on tholr own ground, but the victory was a scant one, the figures bojjisj 6 points to 4. 1 return match was arranged for 1901 ail It took place In September at Berkeley JJ.nl, where the Yale-Harvard combination on with a score of to . At this Junc ture, and partly on account of the result thus far, a theory gained ground among I 'he critics that either team could be suc- ceasful only on its own Ground; that Amer icans could never win In England any more inon juigiisnmcn could win In America But the theory lived only a for In 1904 the Talc-Harvard aggregation invaded England and dnfet "JhSc. , . " 7'a .rt tn.e eno,Ce of C to 1 auioriage oy me scoro Early this spring it was evident from the different college sport, and the dual meet of the big English universities that a slashing team could be mustered from Cxford and Cambridge, so the Blues threw out a hint that they would accept a challenge or Invltntion from the states. In the matter of suiting himself on all Im portant occasions and abiding his own time, John Bull has no peer; he has a good dam now and decides to come, for next ytar will be the British OlvmDle irames witn which nothing will be allowed to in terfere, and 1909 Is too far away. No sooner, however, did word reach here that the Britons yearned for an ath letlo test than the Yale-Harvard people gut tustllit-r ud an luvliatlun was sent without delay. It contained no serious de parture from the conditions of former matches and the program of nine events will again be listed. There will be races of low. 440 and S yards, one mile and two miles, and a 120-yard hurdle race, high and broad Jumps and the sixteen-pound hammer throwing. As the Englishmen have a horror of summer weather here It Is understood they will try to avoid th : broiling heat and make the date late In the season. With regard to the makeup of the English team there will not be the least trouble. It will Include first and second men In the Oxford-Cambridge meet. Two of the most prominent are American Khodes scholars at Oxford. One is P. M. Young of South Dakota, winner of the broad and high Jumps, and the other Is A. M. Stevens, formerly of Yale, holder of the English 'varsity rec ord for throwing the hammer. First and second In the Yale-Harvard dual meet event, will constitute the American team nd they are now pretty well known, though a few changes as to second strings and a few (.ther things may occur later. . " " , """ " "" pnear. to no hy fo:-n on tnper. the Amer- i i . leans have the advantage and should win nut Tormulabe as the Envllsh team out. For the benefit of the students of form a synoptl. of the performances, or cord4. and possibilities of both sides Is gven. As the 100-yard run Is equally popular In r.ngiana ana America and always the first mil to Yorktown. The founder of Dec Itein on the prrum It should be first con- oration day is connected with all the old sldered. For this race the ErgMshmen will colonial families, who have furnished gov- niy on u. iaei.cd of Cambridge and N. O. Charasaa of Oxford, and as to ;mrd there Is verv little to choose between 'ie pair. In the Oxford-CamhrMse games they ran a deid he.it in tne im.Vmte t'mt of 101 seconds. The Cantab l heli.a though to be a little spryer on his pins, for In the big match he got quicker Into hi. stride and w-as In the van for the first fifty yards. Chavssse struck un even gslt throughout and finished seemincly stronger that Mac Ieod. but they cross d the finish line abreast. On first consideration the Judicial department awarded the rare to C'havass, but on a subsequent consultation the ver di t was changed to a tie. C. M. Chavse, a twin brother of the Dmk Blue, came In third, being enly two feet behind, and In esse of accident to his : :t or v.icl eo.1 be will be a handy E.sn f ir second string. Te two most likolv men to oppose t!ie FngPshmen are D. J. Torrey r.f Yale and I P. L'xIkb of l?irard. Terror bis ep-ed th reutisrjr lo 10 seconds flat and Podge, bar accident", may be relied upon for siml lar figures If not better, and he should be top match for the Cbavasset or Mao Icod. Twitchell, Burchard and La Mon tague of Tale and Lockwood of Harvard are the other available candidate If they are wanted. A point to be remembered In connection with International sprinting Is that English men run nearly two yards faster In America than they do at home. It has always been the case that visitors move better here, the light dry air .being the cause of the In creased speed as against the heavy atmos phere of England. si f : v The International 'varalty record la 9 seconds by A. W. Schick of Harvard at London In 19W. but that will hardly be dis turbed this trip. The same climatic conditions apply to the 44 ft yards, for the long sprint men have nlwnya shown better time In America than In the old world. The visitors for the con test will be the Chavasscs of Oxford, as they were flrat and second In the Oxford CnmbrldRe quarter. C. M. having the best of N. O. at the finish line by the small margin of a few Inches, The time was 50 seconds, which mtist be put down as gnod. considering that the track was soft and the weather raw and absolutely unfavorable for fast going. With a "finer day, a better track snd the addition of several months of alduou training the twins should easily beat flftr seconds. Unless a dark horse comes to light within. th next couple of weeks the first and second strings for America will be W. T. Onhalan of Yale and L. B. Young of Harvard. The Yalenslan has shown thus early that he can do fifty seconds, and later on, when properly wound up, he will be yards faster. Young I almost as (rood. In the Vnlo-TTn fv... i.i Crtmsonlte came bnm In ftvnt nf but both vr by Plves. a team mMr of Ya"n'- " Mt college, In th nWln ,lme of E- Revmour. a Yalo r,hm,n ,.. .k goo lurn of d n have Bl r- McClintock. J. T. William, ' Week of the "amfi college. Park ' a. The International record for the event Is m, seconds by C. J. Davidson of Cam bridge In the- meet held at the Queen's club, London, In 1999. The RS0 yards should be a gift for the American collegians, provided B. Ti. Par- on ' Yale rour1 back Into anything llke h1 ,d 'orm; but there Is the big "If," u wlln" arsons a victory would not be so certain. Two consistent performers will represent the Invaders In P. B. Darling of Oxford and E. B. Dougall of Cambridge, the winner and second man In the Intervarslty affair. Only a yard separated thm when they reached the goal and the time was two mlnutes even. Not by any means Is this a startling feat when seen in print, nor does It In the least convey an Idea of the real merits of the runners. Both are capable of better time should the conditions be favorabla, and on a Where Sleep (Continued From Page One.) for the country's brave. In easy distance to the capital they rest there, these brave. It is well they do. It Is a bit of the past and a warning to ever cherish In our land the blessings of peace. The Idea seldom arises In the minds of the people of the north that It -was a southerner who established the praise worthy custom of decorating the graves of the heroes annually upon a day set apart for that purpose. Sue Landon Vaughan, the founder of Dec oration day. Is a descendant of crested families allied to great houses of both England and Scotland. Tholr ancestry dat.s back beyond the crusaders. A knight . , , . ; ... . . " 0 ,am'g lne Wpnt with Douglas to carry ,Z v, , n x, ,. the heart of Bruce to Palestine. Another fell by King James on Flodden Field. English knights of this family were with King Charles of Edgefield and Kaseby Their motto. "Iyal ait Mort," enthrllled th,lr tm.Hinn ffovonri nt from Hunker ernors, generals, legislators to the country, and a score of confederate battalions scsttered throughout the south. After the war Mrs. Vaughan, then Miss Adams, stepped from the seminary where she bad received her education Into the broader path of literature. In 193 she wrote un appeal to the daughters of the south land which was published In the papers all through the south to "Garland the graves of the fallen brave." Decoration day was consecrated April i. 1W5. under the rosarled banners of southern hearts, under a litany of tears. When the "Lady with the Roses." as Miss Adams wss called, entered the myr- tied avenue, strewing flowers on soldiers' mounds, the garlands were bejeweled with the tears that streamed from her eyes. She -.rr!a the crimson banner that Mlsalsstp- plans fell under at Balls Eluff. Va. Colo- nel McFarlane. the commandsnt at Jack- son post, his scars his legion of honor, led the legions In gray The band played tl "Dead March from S.ul." Hundreds u-ailiui las gravs, Ailsr the cvmn.sin- & k: a m &;!t.i i , . - ' ' ' -y',-tw'.ftwi-Vryv;T' j''i-y'-"yi',t'r 3''?ty'7'yry-ylf "wy s"-' 1 1 1 I V 5" ii I v;.:.: ; fV 4 good day and track here they may beat college, Cambridge. In the meet of 1901, Yale spring games In 10 minutes IB seconds. 1:57. , held at Berkeley oval. and last year he mado second in the Yale Warren E. Schutt, the ex-Cornell runner' The Englishmen will doubtless show their Princeton match In worse than 10 minutes atid Khodes scholar at Oxford, was third to usual superiority In the distance races, so these being his best public efforts. Darling and Dougull, and In case anything happens to either of them he will be In Jln,e fr a p,aoe on tne team- ln lno aomB " 01 co,jege at lne Pre"ent hUr Pa"0n"' fll n peer over the half mile course, and should gallop away from the Britons at will. But his work In the past shows that he Is the most erratlo man on the runnng path. One month he Is going great guns and seemingly Invincible, yet a couple of weeks afterward he may only have speed enough to rank as a selling plater. Parsons holds the world's Indoor record ' 1:64, made at Buffalo about two years o, while outdoors he has repeatedly run ln the neighborhood of 1:65, and is holder of the Intercollegiate record of 1:56, at TanKlln field, Philadelphia, ln the chanv plonshlps of 1905. Quite recently the Yale crack appeared to be In poor shape, but any day he Is liable to branch out again and be ln record breaking trim, As aids to Parsons. Yale has V. V. Tllson, who Is good for around 2 minutes, and B. D. Prlssell and M. Weeks, who are al- mogt as speedy. Harvard has a likely brace In M. B. Van Brunt and W. F. Whltcher, who should eventually blossom Into strong J-mlnute men. The International 'varsity record Is 1:55, by Rov. JL W. Workman of Pembroke Nation's Dead oration the vesper servloe for the deadl ine standard of their faith was folded. Wandering among the graves afterward, accompanied by some children. Miss Adams noticed a bare plat of mound, without leaves or flowers. They were the graves of northern soldiers. "I will garland them with my roses." exclaimed the lady with the flowers, "for they have mothers and sisters sobbing for them." When this kindly deed was published around some time afterward it touched the heart of the whole north. Southland was haloed, broken-hearted mothers, .li ters and sweethearts were comforted that their dear ones rested under pink roses .-rrM ,n,l i, (, ,,77 , Trears and love for the gray, love an. .,. , fi, hi" ... tear for lha .blue" A rl br"k n th iu ccmeiery, where there were and e sectionalism, lilies of peace and rowea of faith edged the horizon of the land. "How Soon We Are Forgot." The birthplace of the lute Speaker Heed, which Is about to be torn down, I. In the heart of Portland's Italian quarter and is now a tenement, swarming with sun. and daughters of sunny Italy. How much they are impressed with the greatness of their surrounding, was shown recently when a visitor, desiring to get a look at the cele- brated statesman's birthplace, asked a boy If he would show him the "Tom Heed house." "Totnma Keed! Tomma Iteed! Tou mean Tumma Reed, da milkaman?" Kennebec Journal. High Temperature. "That was rather slighting." said Senator Beyerirtge of a certain speech, "it was like the speech of the old Adam butler. When I was a boy In Admis countv Ju.iire lilnnk was taken very Ul. The doctor culled rtgu- larly, but the judge kept getting worse, and nr.ally the crisis came. The morning after the crisis the doctor rang the Judge's bell at sunrlte. 'I hope your master's tem- perature Is lower than It was last evening,' he said to the butler anxlouely. 'I'm njt s sure alout that.' the man answered. 'He died, sir, In U night.'" ' T1IE OMATTA SUNDAY BKK: MAT m m -a. m nil . . " u iii k v .c tin . 4 r 11 if w t i tr r & tm r w w w i . a. " t." . - . . i V i" i ;' I 1 JrwS It is to bo expected that America will have but a slim chance In the mile. At least 88 the tonn 19 now calculated It rould be oul a warmlK "P canter lor me Blues to dl8P8e ' the bfSt PUt frWard at NeW Haven or Cambridge. For the Britons the first string will be P. L. S. Lloyd of Oxford, a man at all time. to reel off his mile ln 4 minutes 24 seconds. He secured the Oxford-Cambridge title ln 4 minutes M seconds on a soggy path. Sec ond to the Oxonian on this occasion was H. C Weber of Cambridge, and his time was 4 minutes 2&H seconds, so Jhat either will be found a dangerous opponent no matter what conditions may prevail. Among the Yale-Harvard aspirants for distance fame there Is n& one likely to put up much of a battle against the Oxford Cambridge "dry bobs." W. S. Mlnot, the Harvard captain, seems the only runner likely to produce any sort of respectable opposition. At the Yale-Harvard dual meet last year he won the mile ln 4 min utes 30 seconds, but a couple of weeks later In the Intercollegiate championships he was only fourth, being several yards off, to Ouy Hasklns of Pennsylvania ln 4 minutes 29Vi seconds. In the recent meet with Dartmouth Mlnot did not show the Improvement which an additional year's experience would suggest, and his time for the mile was 4 minutes 41 seconds. Hadden and Hedln of Har vard are a pair of mllers capable of about minutes 45 seconds. Seemingly the best man at Yale Is R. A. Bpltser, who won the mile ln the spring games ln 4 minutes 40 seconds, though when properly tuned up later he may better this time by several seconds. J. W. Williams and W. C. Glbsm are the other mllers of any account at Yale, and they run somewhere around 4 minutes 45 seconds. It Is singular that the mile, the Interna tional record of which Is 4 minutes 21 seconds, by F. G. Cockshot of Cambridge at Berkeley Oval in 1901, la the event at which the Americans have made the poor est showing. In short, at the half mile, mile or two miles, no Yankee collegian has yet shown his heels to the Englishmen, nor Is there the least hops, that this year will be an exception. Whatever chance there may be for the Americans ln the mile, there la still lees In the two miles?. There Is no contest at the Oxford-Cambrto'go meet for this 'dis tance, but there Is a throe-mlle race, and of course a man first-rate at It can surely go the shorter distance In smashing shape. First string for the Er.pllshmen will be N. F. Hallows of Oxford, a ellrker at any distance from a mile to five. He haa twice won the intrvarslty three miles, his time for this year's race be!nr 15:6. and what was much more significant than the fig ures, ho lieat F. M. Edwards of Cambridge, a really good man, by twenty yards. Passing the two-mile post the watches showed 10 minutes for Hallows, so that had the race terminated there ho could have hit It up a treat deal faster; at the very lowest It was calculated that the light bluo could have made the pace fully 30 sec onds faster. If necessary Hallows can be used n the mile, and It Is a question It Lloyd Is Ills equal, for the former ln one of the open c llcge events did a shadd worse then 4 minutes 25 soconis. Edwards will be second string to Hallow, and he has dine t minutes 47 seconds for the two miles. Apparently the two beat men to try conclusions with for- 1 tlyners are M. 8. Crosby of Harvard and B. H. Woodward of Yale, about evenly notched and not a peg better than 10 mlnutt s. Crosby was third In the Yale-Harvard j race last year, end not long ago ugalnst I Dartmouth, he won In ten minutes 16Va i Kicvuds. Woodward wvn tbia vut lo the ; 2S, 1907. M if The International 'varsity record Is t minutes 6u seconds, by Rev. II. ,W. Work- man of Cambridge In and only about t h ,.,,, Fur the first time since the Inception of International college matches the English men appear to have the best chance In the hurdle race. At all events the OxfJrd- Cambrldge first string Is the fastest timber topper ever seen at tne British universi ties. He Is K. Powell of Cambridge and won this year's Intervarslty in the fast time of 15 seconds. This wiped away all the old English "varsity marks. That the per formance was genuine there Is not the faintest question, for Powell enmo home In front of E. R. Hussey of Oxford, the winner of 1906 and up to lust March sup posed to be the best man In England over the sticks. Hussey has the strongest kind of title to the place of second string, for he was within a fot of Powell as they shot across the finish line. D. R. Robblns, a Yale freshman, created a surprise In the Yale spring meet, when be beat 8. V. Howe, a more experienced hurdler, ln the good tlmo of 10 seconds, and the freshman appears to be the top notcher at New Haven this spring. C. M. Rand Is the Harvard choice, with a record around 16 seconds. Against Shaw of Dart mouth Rand gave a stiff argument for the most of the Journey, but he lacked the stamina toward the end, and this Is little wonder when It I. known t:;at Shaw won In 15 seconds. Rand was not very far away, so that he cai be put down aa a strong 16-second man, If not a little better. In the field events, which are three In number, America looks to have the "best of It. P. M. Young, the Rhodes scholar at Oxford, won the high and the broad Jumps, and on the form he exhibited It Is as well to admit right now he would have a very poor chance on this side of the pond. His distance In the broad was 22 feet 4 Inches, and In the high 5 feet 8 Inches. Second to him ln the broad was N. H. Evans, another Oxonian, with a leap of 21 feet S Inches, and In tne high Jump L. N. 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Hales of Carrtbrldge In 1876. The Oxford-Cambridge rules allow a much larger circle for throwing than ln America, and the fact may affuct Stevens' throwing when he comes here. When he has to confine himself 'to the seven-foot ring In vogue ln America the pitch may not be near as long. R. H. Lindsay-Watson of Cambridge Is entitled to be second string to Stevens, as he was second with throw of 123 feet S Inches. To Judge from public trials, the two best men here are C. 8. Cooney of Yale, a fresh man, who a short time ago made the fine throw of 146 feet, and on that occasion Park, another Yale man, was second with 147 feet 8 Inches. H. E. Kersberg of Harvard has repeatedly beaten 140 feet, so there will be no trouble In the selection 6f a second string for Cooney. The International 'varsity record Is 151 feet S inches, by T. U Bhevlln of Yals In the match at London In 194. ; Bee Want Ads for Business Boosters. 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