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Harvard-Yale Track Combination Doped to Lead Oxford-Cambridge

Teams Will Take Up Quarters Across Charles--Ninth Meet Opens July 13

The combined track and field team of Oxford and Cambridge will meet the combined Harvard-Yale team in the Stadium, on the afternoon of July 13 and while it is impossible to gauge the strength of the English team with complete accuracy, it seems likely that the American collegians will repeat their 1925 victory. Oxford and Cambridge won the 1927 meet in England.

The English collegians are to sail for Montreal on Friday, and they will meet a picked team in the Canadian metropolis on July 6, before entering the United States for its meet in the Stadium The Oxford-Cambridge team, as was the case in 1925 also will meet a combined team of Princeton and Cornell athletes on teh Saturday following the Harvard-Yale engagement.

Harvard- Yale, team, which is to are included in the personnel of the English team. They are Bayes Norton, captain of the Yale team in 1926 Caleb F. Gates formerly of Princeton and E. R. McGill formerly of University of Florida Norton will compete in both sprints, and Gates in the shot-put, and McGill in the pole vault.

The Englishmen registered times and distances in their Stamford Bridge meet which were disappointing, and below expectations. Nevertheless Sartain of Cambridge broad jumped 22 feet, 8 1-2 inches and his team mate R. W. Evans was but two inches short of the mark. Green of Cambridge ran the mile in 4 minutes, 22 1-5 seconds, and Guttteridge of Cambridge was clocked in 1 minute, 57 1-5 seconds for the half mile. J. M. Pumphrey of Oxford ran three miles in 14 minutes, 59 seconds, while F. W. Teitcherine of Cambridge was just over 59 seconds for the quarter.

Almost four months will have elapsed between that March meet and the international meet when the English athletes compete in the Stadium, and Coach E. L. Farrell of Harvard and George Connors of Yale may well calculate that the Englishmen will improve those marks.

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Only First Places Count

First places only will count in the meet scoring, except in case of a tie in first and then the meet will be decided on second places. A rough chart of performances would indicate that the Americans will get at least six first places, and that they can win on second places. An optimistic chart would give the Harvard-Yale team seven first places and nine second places it follows:

100-yards dash: S. B. Kiesselhorst, Y; B. M. Norton, Oxford.

220-Yard dash: C. H. Engle, Y.: B. M. Norton, O.

440-Yard run: C. H. Engle, Y.: F. Teitcherine, C.

880-yard run; M. H. Gutteridge, C. N. P. Hollowell, 41.

Mile run: C. E. G. Green, C.: David Cobb, H.

Two-mtle run: J. I. Reid, R.: J. M. Pumphrey, O.

Broad Jumn. W. J. Sartain, C.: W. Rovse, H.

High Jump: G. V. Wolf, Y.; G. M. Kuehn, H.

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