Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-27
RECORDS BROKEN
IN Penn GAMES
Three Marks Go in Relay
Races, and Others Are
Approached.
CROWLEY OF VIRGINIA
WINS HURDLE EVENT
Orange and Blue Runner Beats Pick
of Eastern and West
ern Talent.
BY II. C. BYRD.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April
26.-Thrce records broken i'm re-
lay races and worlds mark
equaled in the I2o-yard high
hurdles. That is a summary of
some of the most remarkable per-
iormances III the University OF
Pennsylvania relay races held here
today.
The best athletic talent that is
Afforded by the colleges. prepare
tory and high schools i'm the
United States was in competition.
Olympic and intercollegiate cham
pions tested strength in the indi-
vidual events. and many of the
most capable runners of whom the
college world can boast took part
in the relay races.
The middle west was repre-
scented to larger extent than in
a long while, and in the test
against the eastern institutions it
did not find itself outdone. Two
of the big events went to schools
west of the Alleghenies. A relay
team from the University of Illi-
nois won the race for the one-mile
collegiate championship of Amer
lea, and Michigans two-mile four
took first place in the collegiate
two-mile championship. In the
latter event one of the three rec
ords that were broken went to
the wall The Wolverines COW
cred the distance in the best time
that has ever been recorded by
college team-eight minutes fiat.
Two Other Records Broken.
The other two records broken were
those i'm the freshman one-mile cham
pionship and the preparatory school one
mile championship. In the former the
University of Pennsylvania first-year
men got away with the victory by a wide
margin. mainly through the wonderful
running of Ted Meredith. The Olympic
star ran his quarter in something like
10 %. which gave his team the record
for the class. The mile was covered by
the Red and Blue runners I'm 3.25 A..
which is exactly one second faster than
the previous record Exeter Academy
won the race for prep schools in 3.26 Is.
also one second less than the former
mark.
In his heat in the l29-yard high hurdles
Nicholson. also an Olympic runner. equal
ed the worlds record. He was not placed
in the later event. because he was dis
qualified for knocking down several hur-
dies. Had he run true to his previous
form in the finals he would probably have
won, as the event was done two-fifths Of
a second slower than the time in which
he won his heat
Crowley Scores Triumph.
1t was in this race that Crowley Of vir.
ginia scored his triumph. Against the
best college hurdlers in the north he won
the event handily. Allowance being made
for the fact that Nicholson was disquali-
fed. the performance OF the Orange and
Blue runner is exceptional. The best
hurdlers the west and east afford were
placed against him. and yet he won. Men
from Michigan. Illinois. Wesleyan, Har-
ward. Princeton and Pennsylvania We're
pitted against him. In his first heat Cron-
ley won looking behind him. and he took
the final by fair margin There was
not another man i'm the race who topped
the timbers with the cleanness and pre-
cisdon that did the Virginian.
Virginia sent a relay four. entered i'm
the two-mle championship race. Cronley
and Gooch. 1t was not shut out i'm
single event. Besides the victory secured
by Crowley. the relay four ran fourth
in q race in which a record was broken
by Michigan TO win. and Gooch got Sec
III. t. INN he <hruy
ing was a tribute to the sterling quality
of the few men the Orange and Blue had
in competition.
Johns Hopkins Wins Event.
The only other school from this sec
ton that accomplished anything was
Johns Hopkins University. Its relay
team won in the class in which Ii was
entered in fast time The race In which
St Johns. NJ. A. c., Gallaudet and West
ern Maryland were entered was won by
Franklin and Marshall team which
outclassed the aggreGations from the
south Atlantic sections ST. Johns. rum
ming from the advantage of the pole. fin-
ished second. but the other tours were
completely shut OCT.
Catholic University was entered TO run
i'm race in which the other teams We're
entirely OUT of its class. The Washington
school was not in the running at any time
against It's much more experienced oppo-
nents.
Georgetown had two men In competi-
ton Horter and Brewer. Both were en-
tered in the l0D-yard dash. Brewer fin-
fshed third in his heat. and was shut
out at the start. Horter finished second
i'm the heat in which he ran, but in the
final heat for second men he was unable
to do better than finish second again,
and only the first man qualified for the
finals
while there were several intercollegiate
and Olympic champions in the individual
events none of them performed i'm any
rema rkable manner Richards of the
University of Utah won the high jump.
with a leap of two inches less than he
did in the Olympic games. Wright. the
Dartmouth record-holder for the pole
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