New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-18
STAR ATHLETES
WILL COMPETE
IN PENN GAMES
College Champions and
Record Holders Rally for
Relay Carnival.
CLOSE BATTLE SURE
IN THE MILE RELAY
II. of p, Harvard and Chicago
Have Strong Quartets and
New Mark May Be Set.

RI. n;.k Of the college athletic
world will gather at Philadelphia ne1t
Eridev and Saturday TO take rart III
49, aDruaI relay carnival of the Uni
',arsitv of Pennsylvania The entries
/ Gov the special events include pracu.
! coIIv all the champions and record
holders More than eighty OF tho lead
| ;ro educational institutions or the
/ coT,try will be represented.
az course. the chief interest centres
:, ,ba relay race. from which the meet
takeq it's name. The University OF
PENNSYLVANIA one mile relay team eX-
meets either to set up new lLtercoi-
! iegiate record or TO make Harvard 40
il. The present record is 3;Zl 90 ana
was made By Harvard in 1902. rms
year Pennsylvania has a team whlcn
| looks capable of creating new record
hut so has Harvard. In fact, even tne
Quakers are not conldent OF uelea''hs
the Crimson quartet
Penn men believe they could nave
won last wear had they not lost two OF
their hest men the week of the race.
Neither Meredith nor Kelly was able
IN run last wear. the first on account oil
q strained tendon and the latter be-
cause of illness. Kelly is not now IN
the university. but his place on the
team will be taken By Kaufman, who
is perhaps faster. Assuming that kautf-
man is the fourth man on the team, the
others will be Captain Lippincott, Lock-
wood and Meredith.
Orion, the coach, is OF the opinion
that Kaufman can do close to % sec,
onds. Both LippincOtt and Lockwood
have made this time, while Meredith
has travelled full second faster. This
would bring the Pennsylvania team in
eide an average of so seconds and
would result in a new record.
The Ouakers met the Harvard quar-
tet indoors once this winter and won,
but only by inches, so they naturally
hold the Crimson runners in high es-
TEEN. Then. in addition, there is the
University Of Chicago, whose team IS
said TO be record breaker. There Will
be half a dozen other starters In this
contest, so it promises to be one OF the
features of the meet.
The Quaker track team is training
seriously, not only for the relays, but
for the other events as well. The Red
and Blue expects to score heavily on
the track up to the half mile and in
the hurdles. But the prospects are not
bright for a well rounded team. orion
Is confronted with a serious problem
in the disposition of his sprlnters and
hurdlers. He has -four men who can
score in the two short sprints, but they
have other specialties as well, and 1t
will take some close figuring to place
them where they will do the most good.
These men are Captain Lippincott,
Patterson, Lockwood and Kaufman.
Patterson and Lockwood are almost
certain to run in only the 100 and 900.
But Lippincott is possibly better for
the quarter than for the 100yards, and
is likely to confne himself to the 220
and 440 events. Patterson and Lock-
wood, former point winners, will run
the two short sprnts. Kaufman, who
is as fast as Ferguson, the 220-yard low
hurdle champion, will compete in this
event, but he has run the 100 yards
in 10 seconds and will be started in
the short sprint.
Meredith will enter two events. either
the 440 yards and $50 yards or the $50
and the mile. Which combination it
will be must depend upon how Pennsyl-
vanias other men show up and what
the intercollegiate field looks like. in
addition to Ferguson and Kaufman
Pennsylvania will have a good man for
the hurdles in Warren. There isn't a
first class man for the high jump, and
both Lafamme and Rowley in the broad
jump are uncertainties.
In the other field events Dorizas is
sure to be a point winner in the shot
put, and Murphy ought to do as well in
the hammer as last year, when he was
fourth. In the pole vault the Quakers
still have Sewell. For the first time in
a good many years Pennsylvania has
no one on whom any dependence can be
placed for the mile and two mile runs.