In the summer of 1899 the first really repre sentative international college games were held. After long negotiations it was finally arranged that the teams of Oxford and Cambridge should meet those of Harvard and Yale. The American team was picked after the spring games had all been held, and when the class-days were over and vacation had begun, the lucky young gentlemen who had been chosen to represent their college and their country sailed for England on the same steamship. The date of arrival had been so arranged that there was only time for a short preparation at Brighton before the games, and it was hoped in this way to escape the enervat ing effect of the English climate. In a general way the attempt was successful, and with the exception of Burke, who was positively ill, the American team came on the Queen's Club grounds on July 22 in good condition. When the nine events had been fought out, however, the British flag fluttered to the top of its pole to show that the home team had won, and the score was 5 to 4. The Americans won the hundred, the high hurdles, the high jump, and the hammer 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 i55 seconds, which broke the English record. Quinlan of Harvard won the hundred in io flat ; Arthur Rice of Harvard won the high jump at 6 feet ; and Boal won the hammer event with a throw of 136 feet 82 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 190o to compete at the English championships and the Paris Exposition games. Kranzlein, Prinstein, Tewkesbury, Cregan, Flana gan, Long, Orton, Baxter, Ewry, Duffey—it was 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 four scratch and so-called world's-championship events the Americans won i8, England 4, Hun gary i, and France i. In England the hundred yard dash was won by Duffey, the quarter mile by Long, the one-hundred-twenty-yard hurdle by Kranzlein, the long jump by Kranzlein, the high jump by Baxter of the University of Princeton, the pole-vault by Johnson of Yale, the shot by Sheldon of Yale, the hammer by John Flanagan. In Paris the one-hundred-meter dash was won by Jarvis of Princeton, with Tewkesbury, formerly of Pennsylvania, second ; the four-hundred-meter dash by Long, with Holland of Georgetown sec ond; the twenty-five-hundred-meter run (slightly more than i L miles) by George Orton, with Newton of the New York Athletic Club third ; the one hundred-ten-meter hurdle race by Kranzlein, with McLean of the University of Michigan second and Maloney of the University of Chicago third ; the four-hundred-meter hurdle race by Tewkes bury, with Orton third ; the sixteen-pound shot by Sheldon of Yale, with McCracken of Pennsyl vania second and Garrett of Princeton third ; the high jump was won by Baxter of Pennsylvania, and the broad by Kranzlein, with Prinstein sec ond ; the pole-vault by Baxter, with Colket of Pennsylvania second. All of the above events were so-called world's championships. Of the other scratch events the sixty-meter dash was 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 J. 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 Hungary, 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, 19o1, between the teams of Oxford and Cam bridge and Harvard and Yale. The Englishmen came over by way of Canada and defeated the Gill University team at Toronto before contest ing in New York, but they were defeated — true 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 in fact and appearance and yet able to win with comparative ease in the same afternoon a half mile in i minute 55-g- seconds and a two-mile race in 9 minutes 5o seconds was a feat calculated to rouse in the most blasi spectator curiosity and enthusiasm. The mile was won by Mr. Cockshott in 4 minutes 2i5 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 fast and quite unpushed and alone. H. W. Gregson, also of Cambridge, was second ; H. B. Clark of Harvard, whose mile in 4.3i 2 at the intercollegiates the preceding spring in a pouring rain, and on a track that was a perfect quagmire, suggested 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 1.55i was the best he could do. J. R. Cleave 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 9.5o, with E. W. Mills of Harvard second and C. J. Swan of Harvard third. The English hurdlers showed plainly enough that the previous intercollegiate contests had not been without their effect. Converse of Harvard won the event in 155 seconds, but Garnier of Oxford, who was a close second, ran in almost American hurdling form, and E. All cock of Cambridge was third. In the hundred the starter, by mistake, sent his men away from the wrong mark, so that they ran one hundred five yards, making their time for the even hun dred probably a shade better than to flat. The time for the whole distance was 1o5 seconds. N. H. Hargrave of Yale won, A. E. Hind of Cambridge was second, and J. E. Haigh of Har vard was third. The other events resulted as follows : four-hundred-forty-yard dash, won by E. C. Rust of Harvard in 5o seconds, Dixon Board man of Yale second, and R. W. Barclay of Cam bridge third ; running high jump, won by J. S. Spraker of Yale, 6 feet ti- inches, R. A. Kernan of Harvard second, 6 feet .i- inch, S. Howard Smith of Cambridge third ; running broad jump, won by J. S. Spraker of Yale, 22 feet 4 inches, A. W. Ristine of Harvard second, W. E. B. Henderson of Cambridge third. Throwing sixteen-pound hammer, won by W. A. Boal of Harvard, 136 feet 8 inches, E. E. B. May of Oxford second, and W. E. B. Henderson of Cambridge third.