Fifty Years of Progress 1880-1930

THE FIRST MEETING AT OXFORD be good reasons for it, but it occurred to him that it would bring all meetings to a level, and tend to reduce competition. Mr. C. N. Jackson proposed that it should read "to offer no prizes other than challenge cups," etc. He did not wish the meeting to come to a decision from what Oxford men did or did not do, but he had watched the history of athletics there for the last fifteen years, and it amounted to a superstition amongst the College authorities that at Oxford, too expensive prizes were given, and at one time affairs reached such a crisis that the sports were nearly stopped. They were also there that day to sustain the principles of thorough representation and thorough purity. If a man was not satisfied with a prize worth ten guineas he would not be satisfied with one of the value of twenty guineas. When he went into the highest arena of competition he got the highest possible reward; that reward was that his name was engraved on the challenge cup with the names of other distinguished men. Mr. Jackson's proposition was carried. Minor rules were settled, and the election of ten members to serve on the General Committee resulted in the appointment of The Earl of Jersey, Mr. J. Anderton, Mr. C. E. Barlow, Mr. C. Herbert, Mr. C. N. Jackson, Mr. C. L. Lockton, Mr. R.H. Macaulay, Mr. W. Rye, Mr. M. Shearman, and Mr. W. Waddell. This historic meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman, proposed by Mr. Chambers, who referred to the able manner in which Mr. Wise had presided and got them out of a great many of their diffi– culties. [This summary is approximately one-fourth of the original report in the " Oxford Chronicle," but it includes the essential facts which will be read with interest by followers of the sport after this interval of fifty years.– EDITOR.] 21