Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

International Games 41 I throw; the Englishmen won the quarter, half, mile, three-mile, and the broad jump. The best performance of the American team was made by F. Z. Fox of Harvard, who won the high hurdles in 1 sf seconds, which broke the English record. Quinlan of Harvard won the hundred in 10 flat; Arthur Rice of Harvard won the high jump at 6 feet; and Boal won the hammer event with a throw of 136 feet Bi inches. From a social point of view the Oxford– Cambridge-Harvard-Yale meet of 1899 was all that one would wish it to be. King Edward, then Prince of Wales, witnessed the games, as did also the American minister. After the con– test was over the defeated athletes were enter– tained at tea on the terrace of the House of Commons and everything was done that could be done to make the event one pleasant to remember. Whatever the college athletes who were defeated in this contest may have lacked in athletic proficiency was made up by the specialists who went over in 1900 to compete at the English championships and the Paris Exposition games. Kranzlein, Prinstein, Tewkesbury, Cregan, Flana– gan, Long, Orton, Baxter, Ewry, Duffey- it wets no wonder that the Americans vanquished pretty nearly everybody at Paris. In London the Americans won eight of the thirteen English championship events, in Paris out of twenty-