Balance & Brown

Crack British runners are the coolest, most versatile in the world. The Oxford-Cambridge track teams, which invade the U. S. every four years to oppose Harvard-Yale and Princeton-Cornell, generally shine in the running events but are defeated because of poor performances in the field events. Publicized as the strongest group ever sent, this year's Oxford-Cambridge team proved unusually well-balanced. Relying on both team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races as anticipated, added a victory in the shot put to beat Harvard-Yale, 7 first places to 5.

At Princeton last week Oxford-Cambridge showed supremacy in the field as well. In the high jump and shot put Cambridge's Robert Kirk Inches Kennedy and Ali Irfan of Istanbul set new meet records. And Cambridge's Webster topped Princeton's Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs to bring their total to five firsts. As at Cambridge fortnight ago, the outcome of the meet hung on the half-mile run and the feet of Arthur Godfrey Kilner Brown, combined team captain.

Generally rated the world's No. 1 quarter-miler, Godfrey Brown runs effortlessly, prefers to beat the other fellows and let the records go hang. After dashing the quarter in safe but cool time, hands flopping at his sides, President Brown loped into the half unconcernedly behind Cornell's John Meaden, sprinted easily down the homestretch, passed him and won by 10 yds. for a new meet record (i 152.2), almost three seconds short of the world mark. Thus completed was Oxford-Cambridge's first clean sweep on U. S. soil. The apple-cheeked, bespectacled, India-born son of a Methodist missionary, Godfrey Brown trains strictly the year long, made the Cambridge varsity team his freshman year. He is "reading" (majoring in) English and History at Peterhouse, writes sport for various Cambridge undergraduate papers. Speediest Briton at every distance from 100 yds. to a half mile, he rarely strains to see how fast he can run. Last year he was barely beaten by Archie Williams in the 400-metre race at the Olympics, where he anchored Great Britain's victorious 1,600-metre relay team. Asked before the Princeton-Cornell meet whether he planned to run against the clock or the pack, studious Captain Brown parried: "I'll do the best I know how."

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