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. He was the smallest man in either boat and was rowing his first intervarsity race. Stroking with judgment and rhythm, he held his crew to a safe lead after the first quarter mile and helped win the first victory for Oxford since 1913 by two lengths of open water. Keith Kane, former Harvard football captain, requires no introduction. Pulling a strong oar at No. 4 in the Oxford boat, he did his job for Oxford on the English Thames as he did for Harvard on the Thames that passes Red Top. Tevis Hume, formerly of Princeton, and F. K. Brown, of Washing- ton, were the Americans who assisted at the Oxford track victory at the Queen's Club, London. Hume won the 220-yard hurdles in 25% seconds and Brown took the shot put with 42 feet 8 inches--a 'varsity record. H. M. Abrahams, of Cambridge, with victories in the 100-yard dash, the quarter-mile and the broad jump, was the most brilliant individual of the afternoon. Walter Hagen, who recently created a world's record of 62 strokes for 18 holes of golf in tournament competition, broke the course record at the Asheville (N. C.) Country Club with 66 in open tournament play. The hockey team of the Boston Athletic Association won the championship of the United States by defeating St. Paul, champions of the West, in a post-season series, three games in four. Since the Granites of Toronto, amateur champions of Canada, did not fulfill their obligations in international competition with the B. A. A., the Boston team were officially declared the amateur champions of America. Eugene Criqui, featherweight boxing champion of Europe, arrived on the Paris to enter training for a fifteen-round fight with Johnny Kilbane, world's champion, scheduled for the Polo Grounds June 2.