Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

International Games in fact and appearance and yet able to win with comparative ease in the same afternoon a half . mile in 1 minute ssi seconds and a two-mile race in 9 minutes 50 seconds was a feat calculated to rouse in the most blase spectator curiosity and enthusiasm. The mile was won by Mr. Cockshott in 4 minutes 2 it seconds. He ran the first three-quarters rather slowly, and then set such a pace for the last lap that his rivals were quite unable to approach within striking distance. The last hundred yards he came on very fa t and quite unpushed and alone. H. W. Gregson, also of Cambridge, was second ; H. B. Clark of Harvard, whose mile in 4.3 rf at the intercollegiates the preceding spring in a pouring rain, and on a track that was a perfect quagmire, sugge ted that he ought to do 4.25 at least, was held back too long by the slow pace of the three-quarters, and not being strong at sprinting he was beaten out for third place by his heretofore inferior college mate, H. S. Knowles. In the half mile the Rev. Workman was sent out against Kilpatrick's record. There was no one to pace him, both quarters were too slow for a record half, and r .5 sf was the best he could do. J. R. ClP.ave of Oxford was second and E. B. Boynton of Harvard third. In the two-mile run Workman had it all his own way and won handily in 9.50, with E. W. Mills of