Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
18TH annual RELAY
CARNIVAL AT PENN
Feature to Be Battle Between
the Athletes of the East
and West.
By Edward r. Bushnell.

By Edward r. Bushnell.
No matter from what angle it is view
ed the sixteenth annual relay carnival
to be celebrated by the University of
Pennsylvania next Saturday will be one
OF the greatest athletic meets OF the
year. The individual entries, not count
ing Implications. have already totaled
more than 1000. a record exceeded by
no other athletic meet of modern times
save the olympic games of London in
1908. But as purely national event
the Pennsylvania carnival leads them all.
If there is to be any feature to this
years meet It will be the fight for ath
| letic supremacy between the colleges of
the east and the west. Ten years ago
Chicago University was the only col
lege of the west which sent a team to
the Quaker city. and the midway col
legians confined their competition to
single event, the one-mile college cham
pionship And to their credit it should be
said that Chicago has won this cham
pionship quite as often as any of the
eastern schools. first place going to them
four times.
But within the last few years other
western teams have been sending their
best men east to help Chicago down the
'effete east" Michigan. until last year.
confined her efforts to the four-mile re-
lay and the special events. But last
spring the Wolverines entered team
in the one-mile relay as well. and fin
ished a very close second to Chicago.
while Illinois. also newcomer In this
event, finished third, shutting out Har-
ward.
This year all three of the western
In
teams superior to any they have mad
before. The eastern experts frankly ad-
NIT that the western teams are more
likely than ever to make clean sweep
this time for while the invaders are
stronger than usual the eastern teams
are weaker. In fact It looks as though
the real battle will be between the three
western schools with the chances posi-
bly, bit in favor of the Michigan quar-
tet. which is reputed to be able to average
close to fifty seconds.
1t looks now as though Princeton would
be the college to best represent the east
though Pennsylvania and Columbia are
well supplied with quarter-milers. The
by Harvard in 1902.
OF the other intercollegiate relays chlef
interest centers in the four-mile event,
where four teams will compete against
each other. They are Michigan. Penn
sylvania, Cornell and the Carlisle In
dams. The race promises to be excep-
tionally keen between the first three.
Michigan is still smarting over the de-
feat she received year ago by Pennsyl-
vania, for this was the first time since
MICHIGAN started to compete in this event
that she ever lost it. Year after year
Pennsylvania, and frequently Yale. has
tried to snatch the victory from the west
erners, but never succeeded until year
ago, when the Quakers got together an
unusually fine team, the star OF which
was w. c. PAUL, and downed the VOL
tn cffl1
eral seconds behind Michigans intercOl-
legiate record and Michigan would GER
tainly have won had her team been as
good as some Of Its predecessors. This
year Michigan has faster quartet than
in 1908, and in May and Tower have two
men whose average is better than Penn
sylvaniaS best two.
At the same time Cornell must be Sc
ond attempt at the for-mile relay. In
1901 Cornell was third, Harvard and
Pennsylvania finishing ahead Of her. This
year Moakley, the Cornell coach, has got
ten together a quartet Of his star dis
lance runners, including Taylor. the in
tercollegiate two-mile record holder; Ber-
ma, the cross-cOuntry champion; Young,
former cross-cOuntry champion. and De
Golyer This is very evenly balanced
team and its chances for victory are fully
as good as those Of either Pennsylvania
or Michigan. The Carlisle Indians are an
uncertain quantity.
In the tWO-mlle relay Tie west Will ue
represented by the University of Mis-
souri, this also being the first time that
Missouri team ever came this far east.
The men from beyond the Muddy river
think they have a good quartet Of half
miIers, and since the calfber of the east
ern teams is bit low they are consid
cred dark horses" Yale, Pennsylvania,
Dartmouth and Cornell are the other
eastern entries for this event, with Yale
the best Of the lot.
Spea kine of western entries. that section
OF the country will be represented In all
the special events and with men who will
make the eastern champions hustle. Both
Michigan and Chicago will be represented
by their best mon In the sprints. hurdles.
Jumps ana weights. 1t used to be said
that these games drew no entries from
competition one year of Iowa moved the
boundary back to the Missouri river. This
year there are three athletes coming all
the way from the University of Kansas.
on the other side of the Missouri. At this
rate of progress there will soon be teams
from the Rocky mountain region and the
Pacific coast.
Want Permanent Foot Ball Coaches.
The reelection of Percy D. Haughton
as head coach of the Harvard foot ball
team and of Andrew l.. Smith to SINH
lar position at Pennsylvania are all in
line with the action Of Princeton in plac-
ing w. w. Roper in charge of the Tiger
team. In other words, college athletic
best results are obtained by having a reg
ular coach and paying him salary suff-
cient to retain him year after year. 1t