UNIVERSITY CARNIVAL
OXFORD MEN IN THE STATES
Presa Association—By Telegraph--Copyright,
NEW YORK, April 28. At Philadelphia England’s colors v/ere. lowered in the first event of the University of Pennsylvania Belay Carnival, when Morgan, of the Oxford . team, finished a bad sixth in the Two-mile International Bun, which Columbia won. Morgan started well, and led the field for nearly half the distance, but he gradually dropped back. Oxford won the mile sprint medley, Stevenson finishing seven yards ahead. The British representatives led at 600yds, but yielded at 880, when Milligan, the Oxford captairi, began reducing Georgetown’s lead. Milligan leaped ahead in the last hundred yards, gaining a seven yards lead, which Stevenson maintained to the last.
The State College w r on the Two-mile Relay, setting a new record of 7imn 48 4-ssec. Oxford was second in a field of six four-men teams.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18262, 30 April 1923, Page 5
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