The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-04-17
OUTDOOR ATHLETIC
SEASONS OPEN
Marathon Race in Boston on Patriots
Day--University of Pennsylvania
Track Meet Latter Part
of the Week.

New York, April l7.--Distance runners
and track athletes will usher in the out
door athletic season at Boston and Phil
adelphia next week. On Monday thu
Boston Athletic associations annual Pa
triots' day Marathon race will bring to
gether great field of competitors, this
years event having attracted an unusual
| ly large and representative entry A
few weeks ago the federation rule, pro-
hibitng Marathon runners from the bene-
fit of receiving coaching assistance or re-
freshments during the contest, threat
ened to become hard and fast law
governing this branch of road competi-
tion in this country. However, by two
thirds vote of the Amateur Athletic I'M
ions governing board, these new condi-
tions were not accepted, being considered
too severe. Therefore the big race will
be run under the old syster, which has
been in vogue for many years, and the
runners will have the assistance OF at
tendants on bicycles all through their
long journey over the Ashland Boston
course for the 10Th running of the event.
Franklin field, Philadelphia, where
some of the greatest track events in the
history OF American sport have been de-
cided will present busy scene next Fri
day and Saturday, while the annual re-
lay games Of the University OF Penn
sylvania are being contested. Last year
there was decidedly international fla
vor given to this meet. when England
sent her great Oxford university runners
to take part in the four mile relay team
race. These were Sproule, Gaussen, Ia
Der and Jackson, and running named,
they won in 1905, with the Pennsyl
vania team second and Cornell third. De-
spite the fact that foreign competitors,
for obvious reasons, are unable to take
part in this years games the annual
event promises to be wonderfully attrac
tive. A total OF 34l teams have entered
for the several events exclusive of the
special contests in which the best in
tereollegiate performers are to meet.
Western, southern and eastern colleges,
Colorado, Missouri, Oregon.
South Carolina, Harvard, Yale, Maine and
others equally prominent in intercollegi-
ate sport, are ON the record breaking en-
try list. Under the new Olympic fed
Grafton rules which have been adopted by
the l. c. A. A. A. A., the track will be
II inches instead of IS inches
from the pole and this change will com
pei the runners to travel about 81 feet !
further in each mile than in former years
under the old system OF measuring.
Medley relay racing for college teams
will be introduced at this annual car
liyal. Last month at the initial indoor
meet of the |. C. A. A. A. A. at the Mad |
son Square Garden, the Medley event,
which was won by Pennsylvania quar-
ct, Lippincott, Lockwood, Dorsey and
Meredith, proved TO be one of the most
interesting contests on the varied pro-
ram. The winners as named ran re-
pective distances POO. 300, 500 and 1000
ards and were followed home by the
Dartmouth, Michigan and Cornell teams.
Sext Friday two OF these contests will
'e decided. The first will be for sprint
rs. the first two men to run 220 yards
aeh, the next man 440 and the anchor
nan ego yards. The entries for this
vent represent the cream of the track
alent from Chicago. Michigan, Lehigh.
Harvard, Pennsylvania State
nd the local university. In the other
medley the distances will be 440. $50,
800 and l,T60 yards, for which Chi
ago, Lehigh, Harvard and Pennsylvania ,
re entered. t.