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First turn in Quarter-mile,
fighting for lead.
Boardman (Y.) and Hollins (O.)
Davison (C.) last.
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: foe Bex aries snd Biograph Co. These pictures form part of their permanent record of the games.]
that we may be able in some near future
to go over there and give them their
revenge. Mr. Roche has been assuring
me all the evening that the climate had
very little to do with the fact that we
won several races this afternoon, but I
have very little doubt myself that if we
went to face the climate of America, we
should find the tables turned most de-
cisively. Gentlemen, no one in the room
can possibly be tired of drinking the
health of two teams composed of such
first-class athletes and sportsmen as have
met this afternoon. I will ask you to
rise to the health of the Harvard and
Yale teams coupled with the names of
Mr: Roche and Mr. Fisher.”
Captain Hunter Speaks.
Before the next speech was called for
considerable amusement was occasioned
by the usher’s announcement of the
name of the speaker, Mr. A. Hunter,
for he demanded in loud stentorian tones
from behind the president’s chair—‘Sil-
ence for Hay ’Unter!” Thereupon
immediately arose from all in the hall
a yell of laughter and a continued shout-
ing for Mr. “Hay ’Unter” to arise. Mr.
Hunter said:
“Gentlemen, I feel that standing up as
I do after such orators, I should be pre-
suming if I speak to any length. But,
gentlemen, there are one or two points
which it is both my duty and pleasure
to mention. First of all, gentlemen, I
should like to thank both Oxford and
Cambridge members for their great
efforts in training and making it as
pleasant to us as possible under circum-
stances which were both trying, because
of the heat, and novel. I should also
like to congratulate the same members
for their success, and I hope Oxford
will forgive me if I congratulate more
heartily the Cambridge men, who had a
great deal to do with winning the sports,
although the Oxford men had quite as
much to do in assisting us, for the
second place men did as much towards
winning the race for us as the winners.
Then, gentlemen, I should mention the
thanks which we all owe to Mr. Jackson
for his great self-sacrifice, and you will
believe me I am sure when I mention
that he left all his educational pleasures
and his domestic duties behind him. I
should rather say educational duties
and domestic pleasures. I know that
his domestic money matters were not
in great form. I am not quite certain
whether it was 2d. or 6d. he had in the
bank. But we benefited much under his
guidance and we expect that during our
next meeting of Oxford and Cambridge
we will benefit even more for what he
has told us. I should thank all the
members of the Harvard and Yale team
and all their followers for their sports-
manlike behavior in all connected with
this meeting, and for coming so far—I
don’t exactly know where they come
from. Their exact position I am sorry
I don’t quite know, but that is an abso-
lute detail. We don’t want to know
where they have come from, but what
they are, and that we do know their
cheers. The exact date of our next
meeting is not quite fixed, but there is
one thing fixed, and that is the friend- _
ship developed by this meeting to-day.”
Mr. Wendell arising to lead cheers in
response to the request of the Cambridge
captain, said: ut :
“We all hope now that next year Mr.
Hunter will know where we all come
from.” He called for three time three
for Cambridge and Oxford, which was
enthusiastically given.
Captain Roche’s Speech.
Mr. Roche, continuing the response to
the “Competing Teams,” said:
“It seems to me that the greater part
of this toast must be due to Mr. Vassall
and Mr. Hunter, as they have been
presidents of the winning team. I have
only one point to remind you of, and
that is we don’t pretend to represent the
strongest universities in athletics of
America. We do pretend to represent
the two oldest. Gentlemen, I have to
thank you all, the members of Queen’s
Club, the members of Oxford and Cam-
bridge, for the very kind and extremely
courteous reception which you have
given us all. We all came over here
with pleasure, and months ago I think
we all looked forward with pleasure to
a possible meeting at,the time with Ox-
ford and Cambridge. We have had the
meeting. We have been defeated, but
I know it is a great deal of pleasure that
we will all remember this meeting. I
cannot imagine any reception which
could be more cordial, or which could
have been given with a kinder heart
than the reception you have given us
here. I only have one thing to ask—
that you will let us try again.”
Mr. Fisher, who was also loudly
cheered, made a few remarks which
were mostly inaudible in the cheering,
to the effect that it seemed hard to be
called upon after so many good speakers,
and how he desired to coincide in all
that his very good friend Mr. Roche
had said.
The usher mentioned next, called sil-
ence for “Mr. Shereel,” putting a heavy
accent on the “eel,” and amidst more
merriment and shouts for “Mr. Shereel,”
that gentleman arose to propose the
toast to the Chair, the Earl of Jersey.
Mr. Sherriil’s Speech.
Mr. Sherrill said:
“The introduction which you have just
heard, gentlemen, affords me such an
excellent disguise that I shall speak with
no hesitation, for I feel sure that Mr.
Sherrill will not be held responsible for
anything I may say. I have the great
honor to propose, on behalf of the guests
of the evening, a toast to the Chairman.
Before I fulfill that very pleasant duty,
I am going to add a word to what has
already been said in regard to the rela-
tions, now closer than ever before, be-
tween what I trust are no longer our
two races. Of course there has been of
late a great deal of idle pseudo-patriotic
talk about the Anglo-Saxon race, but I
am sure that the event of to-day has
been of more use in showing that we
have certainly one wholesome basis for
our international friendship, a keen
interest in honest sport. We are not of
a Latin race. We do not fall in each
other’s embrace and become the closest
friends at the moment of our first meet-
ing, but we can be truly cordial, even
if it be with a more judicious cordiality.
To-day has helped to prove that we
Americans are as cordial as you, and
that we too are of a race that can be
the keenest rivals, and at the same time
feel a friendship equally keen. We have
met, we have fought, and we are friends.
A WAR INCIDENT.
“One of your great generals said that
the battles of England were won upon
the playing fields of England. I think
he put in a nutshell how useful to the
morale of a nation is an interest in
sport. Life is not all sport, but the
qualities which make for success in
sport, and which are developed by ath-
letic training and competition, are the
very qualities which are needed for the
sterner things of life. I want to tell you
‘a little story which I heard crossing on
the steamship ‘St. Paul,’ which -was one
of our cruisers in our late war. As you
know, our university men, and particu-
larly our athletic men, enlisted in large
numbers. One day the ‘St. Paul’ had
an encounter with two Spanish torpedo-
boat destroyers, and it became necessary
to develop all of her speed, so she could
be the more readily handled. The cap-
tain called for volunteers, not volunteers
to do the shooting, for shooting is
supposed to be one of the pleasures of
our race, but for volunteers to go down
into the stoke room, and you all know
what that means. The stoke room of a
steamer in the tropics is a living hell.
The volunteers were forty Yale and
Harvard graduates and undergraduates.
I was also told that the man who fired
the shot, which, at a mile and a quarter,
_ smashed the boilers of one of the Span-
ish boats, was a Harvard man who had
never shot anything more offensive than
a squirrel before.
“I think we may be safe in the feeling
‘that, although in the piping times of
peace we are a race of shopkeepers, as
your friends across the Channel say,
which enables us to control the com-
merce of the whole world, we are
also, when it comes to sterner times,
a people who can do sterner things.
Reverting to the hearty cordiality of
which the Anglo-Saxon race is so justly
proud—of which cordiality this charm-
ing banquet is so delightful a token—I
now have the pleasure, on behalf of Yale
and Harvard, and also of Oxford and
Cambridge, to ~ive you the toast of the
Chairman, who has so ably presided this
evening, and our host the Queen’s Club.
Gentlemen, the Chairman, coupled with
the name of the Queen’s Club.” 3
Lord Jersey’s Response.
Lord Jersey responding, said: 3
“Your Excellency and Gentlemen: I
ought perhaps to explain that I have
filled the chair to-night owing to a sad
event in the family of the President of
the Queen’s Club, Lord Granby, who
otherwise would have been only too glad
to have been here. It is a real pleasure
for me to be once more amongst brother
athletes, whether upon this side or the
other side of the Atlantic; it makes me
feel even younger, notwithstanding the
hour of the night to be here. I thank
Mr. Sherrill for what he has said, be-
cause really his ancedote pointed the
small moral to which I alluded in the
course of my speech, and it is really
the case, if we do our duty upon the
footpath, we can also do our duty wher-
ever we may be called upon to do it for
our country. I believe athletics has a
great advantage. I assure you. there is
no athlete, old or young, in this country,
who would not have been glad to fill
this chair and to have had the oppor-
tunity of tendering to you, come from
across the Atlantic, the heartiest’ wel-
come and the best wishes.”
The guests remained at the Cecil for
some time’after the close of the speeches
and then accepted an invitation from
their hosts and drove around to the new
Oxford and Cambridge Club.
wns
AFTER THE GAMES,
A Succession of Entertainments, Day
and Night.
(By Preston K: umler, the Staff Correspondent of
ALUMNI WEEKLY.)
| Lonpon, July 31.
The Yale and Harvard men made their
headquarters at the Victoria during the
week after the games and were royally
entertained on every hand. Some special
diversion was arranged for each day
and all combined to make the week a
most delightful one. |
On Monday afternoon, Ambassador
Choate gave a reception in honor of the
American athletes at his home on Charl-
ton Terrace, and in the evening the.
Americans were the guests of Sir Henry
Irving at the performance of “Robes-
pierre” and a supper at the “Old Beef-
stéak Club” which followed.
Tuesday morning the teams went to
Cambridge, escorted by Mr. A. Hunter,
President of the Cambridge Athletic
Club. After some hours devoted to see-
ing the university buildings and grounds,
they were received by the Kev. Dr. But-
ler, Master of Trinity College and took
luncheon in the large hall of the college.
De Wolf Hopper’s El Capitan and the
Biograph views of Saturday’s sports at
the Palace, were rival attractions in the
evening. Mr. Hopper’s frequent allu-
sions to the games and the introduction
of the American and English flags in the
well-known march, were received with
great enthusiasm.
On Wednesday the men were the
guests of Mr. A. H. Grenfell, M.P. at
his country home, Toplow Court, some
thirty miles north of London. The day
was delightfully spent in wandering
about the beautiful gardens, and closed
with a ride on the Thames in Mr. Gren-
fell’s launch. Returning to London, the
party went to the Savoy Theater, where
they occupied boxes draped with the
national flags at the performances of
“Pinafore” and “Trial by Jury.”
Mr. Lees Knowles, M. P., escorted the
members of the teams through the House
of Parliament on Thursday afternoon
and provided them with seats at the ses-
sion of the House of Commons. Later
in the afternoon tea was served on the
terrace overlooking the Thames and the
Yale and Harvard men were presented
to Mr. Joseph Chamberlin, Secretary of
State for the Colonies; Mr. Arthur J.
Balfour, Leader of the House; Lord
Stanley, Viscourt Curzon, the Mar-
quis of Lorne, Mr. Alfred Lyttleton,
Mr. Percy Thornton and other men of
prominence in English political life-
“The Only Way” at the Prince of Wales
Theater closed a most instructive and
pleasant day.
On Friday morning the American
athletic party journeyed to Oxford as
the guests of Mr. C. N. Jackson, Bursar
of Hertford College, and after a
thorough inspection of the stately build-
ings, took lunch in the Hertford College
Hall with Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and
some twenty of their friends. Before
returning to London all drove over to
the Oxford Cricket Grounds.
Friday evening was chiefly devoted to
preparations. for leaving London. The
party had been considerably depleted by
the departure of a number of the men
during the latter part of the week, and
on Saturday the final breaking up took
Coming into straight, Quarter—
mile run; Boardman lead-
ing; Davison on outside.
[Photo. by Byron, New York.]
place, some returning to America on the
Saint Louis and others ctarting on more
or less extensive travels through the
continent.
The Miller Memorial,
Ground was broken last week for the
Miller memorial gateway. The loca-
tion of the gateway, which is being built
by the Class of Ninety-Seven in mem-
ory of the late Theodore Westwood
Miller, ’97, is between Durfee Hall and
Battell Chapel. The material used in
the construction will be bronze and it is
expected that by the time College opens.
the work will be completed.
