Five days before their biennial meet against the combined Harvard-Yale track team, the athletes of Oxford, of Cambridge, landed in the U. S. on wobbly sea-legs.
"Why do you come so late?" asked critics. "Because five days is enough time for our men to train in; and if it is not enough, we cannot afford longer," replied the Britishers. "Why have you no coach?" asked pressmen. "For the same reason: we cannot afford one," said they. At Cambridge, Mass., blond David, Lord Burghley, heard a pistol pop, took a step, two, three, sailed over...
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