Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

International Games won by Kranzlein, with Tewkesbury second; the two-hundred-meter dash by Tewkesbury; the two– hundred-meter hurdles by Kranzlein; the stand– ing high, standing broad, and standing triple jumps by Ewry, the Purdue champion, contest– ing under the colors of the New York Athletic Club, with Baxter second in both and Garrett of Princeton third in the "standing triple"; the running hop skip and jump by Prinstein, with ]. B. Connolly second and L. P. Sheldon third; throwing the hammer by Flanagan, with Hare of Pennsylvania second and McCracken third. A scrub team which included Flanagan, Hare, McCracken, Garrett, R. and L. P. Sheldon, won the tug of war. The events which the English athletes won were the eight-hundred and fifteen– hundred meter runs, the five-thousand-meter team race, and the four-thousand-meter steeplechase. The discus-throw went to Hurrgary, and the so– called Marathon race of somewhat over twenty– four miles went to France. The fourth international meet between the track teams of American and English universi– ties was that held at Berkeley Oval on September 25, 1901, between the teams of Oxford and Cam– bridge and Harvard and Yale. The Englishmen came over by way of Canada and defeated the Gill Univer ity team at Toronto before contest– ing in New York, but they were defeated - true