Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athleti'cs to the precedent that the home team wins in international contests - by Harvard and Yale by a score of six to three. The day and track were perfect, both teams fit, and although the home team won twice as many points the victory was by no means a lightly plucked one. The Eng– lishmen had excellent material, their distance men were far and away superior to ours, and their sprinters and hurdlers were of the first class. There was not quite the same eclat surrounding the contest at Berkeley Oval that there had been two years before on the Queen's Club grounds; but the meet was nevertheless a very charming affair, and from a purely athletic point of view more successful perhaps than either of the other three international varsity games. The most interesting events of the day, and the ones in which the best performances were made, were the distance runs - the mile, won by Mr. Cockshott of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the half and two mile runs, won by the Rev. H. W. Work– man of the same college and university. The personality of both these runners added consider– ably to the interest which was inevitably aroused by the brilliancy of the performances. Mr. Cock– shott was a slender, shy-looking young man, with a very engaging countenance, and one of the easiest running styles I ever saw; the Rev. Work– man ran very awkwardly, but to be a clergyman