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Show YALE AND HARVARD LACK TITE STRENGTH Tribune Spocial fr'porllni? Fervlne. NEW YORK, Feb. 1. The announcement announce-ment that In all probability the college athletes of TSnglnnd and tho United States will engage In a prcat dual incnt next summer, after the London Olympiad, Olympi-ad, Is hailed on all Hides no a tremendous tremen-dous factor in adding- interest to the sport for tho comlnp summer. Ono thinp Is cortnln. Harvard and Yale together would make a very .poor showing against nn Oxford-Cambridge team during tho coming AUtunicr, for the reason that Hnr-I Hnr-I vard and Yale repiCFcnt a very small , part of the strcngtii of the American col-; col-; loires this vear. On the other hand. Ox- i ford and Cambridge between them pos-, pos-, Hess a large part of Great Krlmin'.s col-' col-' lego athlete.". I The plan on foot at present Is to col-I col-I lect the best men at the Intorcolleglate games this spring and send them to Eng-j Eng-j land as representatives of Huh country, ,'botli at the Olympic garnet and at tho big college miet following. Thus a representative! rep-resentative! American college team will be secured. Including tho best performers perform-ers from Yale. Harvard. Pennsylvania, Cornell, Princeton, Michigan, Dartmouth, and Amherst The blending of the best I men from all these Institutions Is sure to produce a Icam that will be strong In every department of sport. The result of tho meet wil largely depend de-pend upon the showing of tho Yankee athlctejs in the runs from 410 yards up. In the fluid events and sprints It Is almost al-most certain Hint America, will triumph, anil If wo can land only a fair proportion propor-tion of the runs the victory will bo Uncle Sam's. ' i |