Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

410 Track Athletics won second and third places in the shot and ham– mer respectively at the English championships, in I 897, and a year later George Orton of Penn– sylvania won the two-mile English steeplechase championship handily. In the summer of 1899 the first really repre– sentative international college games were held. After long negotiations it was finally arranged that the teams of Oxford and Cambridge should meet those of Harvard and Yale. The American team was picked after the spring games had all been held, and when the class-days were over and vacation had begun, the lucky young gentlemen who had been chosen to represent their college and their country sailed for England on the same steamship. The date of arrival had been so arranged that there was only time for a short preparation at Brighton before the games, and it was hoped in this way to escape the enervat– ing effect of the English climate. I 11 a general way the attempt was successful, and with the exception of Burke, who was positively ill, the American team came 011 the Queen's Club grounds on July 22 in good condition. When the nine events had been fought out, however, the British flag fluttered to the top of its pole to show that the home team had won, and the score was 5 to 4. The Americans won the hundred, the high hurdles, the high jump, and the hammer