Evening star., 1916-12-25
BY H. C. BYRD.

Athletes representing the University
of Pennsylvania have more records in
the intercollegiate Association of Anna
teur Athletes of America. the organi-
zation which annually holds the track
and field meet Familiarity known as the
"1ntercollegiates," than do those of any
other institution. Five times have ath-
1etes representing the Quakers set
marks better than have been registered
by other men and twice have they
eQualed the records of men wearing the
colors of rival universities.
Two former Penn stars hold two rec
ords each, Alva KraentZlin and Ted
Meredith having surpassed other men
in this respect The former did the ZIo-
yard low hurdle in 1898 in % 3-5 sec.
oRds. and no athlete since that time mas
covered the distance as fast J. l. wen
dell of Wesleyan University equaleo
that figure. though. in 1913 kraent-
zlin's mark of "a feet " inches IN tne
f1nning broad jump in 1899 stands as
the supreme accomplishment in that
form of competition. Meredith created
both his records last spring in his last
appearance in a Pennsylvania suit lie
covered the 440 in AZ 2-5 seconds. low
ering the 4S-second record formerly
held Jointly by him with Charles T..
Reidpath of Syracuse, and broke py
2-5 of a second the figure set in 1914
in the half mile by Caldwell of Corneii.
Meredith's performance last spring
stands the most noteworthy feature
of the forty-two meets held under the
auspices of the intercollegiate organ1-
zation.
j. C. Patterson, another PENNSYLVANIA
man. is holder in conjunction with Ber-
ME Wefers of Georgetown and X. e
Craig of Michigan of the record Tor
in 9i-5 seconds. Donald Lippincott,
with Craig and Wefers. has run the
220 faster than any other man, the time
of all three men for that being Il 1 .
seconds. The seventh record held by
Penn man is the one-mile walk, the
best mark for that having been set by
W. B. Fetterman, jr., in 1898.
The records for the mile and two
mile runs are held by Cornell men
Nobody has run the mile better than
John Paul Jones, who covered the dls-
tance in minutes IA 2-o seconds in
1913, and J. S. Hoffmire's time in the
two-mile event stands the best ever
made. Hoffmire ran that race In
minutes % As seconds.
Two Yale men hold records. Oehler
broke the mark for high jumping and
H a. Gardner topped the bar IN the
pole vault at a greater height than
has been accomplished by any other
athlete. Last spring Murray of Le-
land Stanford University came east
and clipped a fifth of second off the
only mark held by Dartmouth man,
running the 120-yard hurdles in 10
seconds fat and beating A B. Shaws
mark of IS 1-5 seconds.
Just where the cord-breaking In
tie intercollegiates will stop is hard
to foretell. Right now it looks much
as IL the limit of human endurance
in the majority of the events has been
reached, but probably some man will
jump to the front next year with some
almost superhuman performance and
set new mark. Arthur Dufey, prob
ably the greatest sprinter the world
has known. thought at one time that
no man could run the 100 yards faster
than 94-5 seconds. yet he himself later
did better than that, running it in 3-5
seconds, and he has since expressed
the opinion that the 92-5-second man
would some day put in his appearance.
Much has been said at several of the
big universities regarding the lack OF
real college spirit among the under
deplored the absence of cheering at
the practice and caustic things have
been written in letters concerning
the general lack of enthusiasm ex-
Gently printed in the Yale Alumni
Weekly explains this in measure by
citing the great many other activlt1es
in which undergraduates engage. and
also lays no small part of the blame
I'd the policy of holding secret practice
all the time Here is what the Yale
alumni organ says:
THE complaint is not at all rare,
among graduates who recall their own
campus enthusiasms. that the modern
undergraduate at large has lost much
of the athletic spirit of the older
days. To some graduates this is mere
ly hopeful symptom of changing
times; to others II is the occasion for
outbursts of what might be called
proper temper. To the latter class the
undergraduate of today has become a
mollycoddle: he has only a lukewarm
interest in the athletic victories of his
teams; he is pictured as drinking tea
when he ought to be, by all the gods.
shouting his head off at foot ball prac-
tfce. he doesn't worry when minor
teams beat the varsity which in the
old days wiped every opponent off the
foot ball map: he no longer paints the
town red when that varsity wins.
Some of which is true. though it does
net necessarily go to show that the
modern undergraduate has any less