Sport: An English Holiday

Oxford and America combined to make an English holiday when the Dark Blue crew, with two Americans in the boat, defeated Cambridge in the Thames classic, and the Oxford track team, also with two Americans, took the annual track meet 7 events to 4. W. P. Mellen, of New York—age 20, weight 155—stroke of the Oxford crew, was the hero of the four-mile drama on the Thames. Mellen sat in his first shell at Middlesex School and received his earliest training under Dr. R. Heber Howe, recently resigned as director of rowing at Harvard....

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