The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-17
Bowlers Interested in Ocean to Ocean Photographic Con tests To Be Rolled For Robert E. Thompson Trophy.

New York. Aprl7 17-D1stance 1 run ners and track athletes will usher in the outdoor athletic season at Boston and Philadelphia next week On Monday the Boston Athletic Assoeia- tfon's annual Patriots Day Marathon race will bring together a great field of competitors, this years event hay ing attracted an unusually large and representative entry. A few weeks ago the Federation rule, prohibiting marathon runners from the benefit of receiving coaching assistance or re- treatments during the contest, threat ened to become a hard and fast law governing this branch of road cornpe- dtion in this country, However, by ] two-thirds vote of the Amateur Athletic Unions governing board, these new conditions were not accept cd. being considered too severe. Therefore the big race will be run under the old system which has been in vogue for many years. and the runners will have the assistance of attendants on bicycles all through ! their long Journey overf the Ashland Boston course for the nineteenth run ming of the event
 Franklin Field. Philadelphia, events in the history of American sport have been decided will present a busy scene next Friday and sa,tur- day. while the annual relay games of 1 the University of Pennsylvania are | being contested. Last year there i was a decidedly international flavor given to this meet, when England sent her great Oxford University rum \ ners to take part in the four mile re lay team race. These were Sprou1e i Gaussen, Taber and Jackson. and run ming as named they won in 18:O5, with the Pennsy1vania. team second and Cornell third. Despite the fac that foreign competitors, for obvious | reasons, are unable to take part 1T H promises to be wonderfully attrac- tive. A total of 341 teams have en |l tered for the several events exclusive of the special contests in which tn, best intercollegiate performers arr to meet. Western, southern ans eastern colleges. including Colorado | Missouri, Oregon, South Carolina Harvard, Yale, Maine and other
 equally prominent dn Intercollegiate
 sport. are on the record-breaking en Ns stry list. Under the new Olympic Fed
 eraffon rules which have been adopt
 ed by the I. c. A A. A the track vii
 be measured 1z inches instead of inches from the pole and this chang
 will compel the runners to trave about 3 7-10Sfeet further in each mil
 than in former years under the ol system of measuring.
 Medley relay racing for co1leg 1 teams will be introduced at this an
 aual carnival. Last month at tn initial indoor meet of the I. c. A. 4
 A. A. at the Madison Square Garder } the Medley event, which was won b Pehnsy1vania's quartet, Lippinoot Lockwood, Dorsey and Meredith proved to be. one of the most inter esting contests on the varied program The winners as named ran respectiv distances 200. 800, 500 and 100
 yards and were followed home by tn
 Dartmouth, Michigan and Corns
 teams, Next Friday two of thes A 1 contests will be decided. The fir
 will be for sprinters. the first tw
 men to run 200 yards each, the ne1
 40 and the anchor man $50 yard
 The entries for this event represer
 the cream of the track talent frol Chicago, Michigan, Lehigh. PrincG
 ton, Harvard. Penn. State and the lc
 cal university. In the ether media
 the distances will be 40, sso, ,sz
 and 1,760 yards for which Chicagi