Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

International Games tional varsity rivals of ours and of the mother country have joined forces against each other, and our young athletes of Harvard and Yale have met those of Oxford and Cambridge on the same field and track. Long before track athletics were organized in either country and before the distinction between amateur and professional was in any way accu– rately defined, George Seward, the New Haven sprinter, had gone to England and beaten every one in sight at all distances up to a quarter mile. That was in 1844. Nearly twenty years later, Deerfoot went to England and beat out all the distance men. In 1878 C. C. Mclvor of Mont– real, who had won the hundred at our national championship the year before, went abroad and entered in professional races. He was badly beaten. The first real American amateur to com– pete in England, so the late "Father Bill" Curtis once wrote, was probably Mr. Richard H. Dud– geon. Mr. Dudgeon had offices in both London and New York, belonged to both the New York and the London Athletic Clubs, and competed in both countries under the colors of each club. Beginning with the early eighties the records of the annual English championships are frequently punctuated with the names of American athletes -spiked-shoed adventurers setting out from home cocky in their strength, flying, in spirit, the