New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-27
Bob Simpson
Among Stars
In Big Games
One Hundred College
Teams in Penn Relays,
Which Begin To-day
b. 4. c. CAvAGNARO

While the preparedness measures
adopted by a great number Of colleges
hive compelled a discontinuance Of
athletic competition, 10 is reported
that the two days relay carnival OF
the University OF Pennsylvania, which
takes place on Franklin Field, Phila-
delphia, to-day and tomorrow, has at
tracted the largest entry in the history
Of the meet.
Although Harvard, Princeton. Cor
nell, Michigan, Dartmouth and Yale q
have not entered their full track teams
as usual, these institutions will be rep
resented by a number Of their best attn
lctes. However, these competitors will
not represent their colleges, but par
ticipate as unattached individuals.
The two-day carnival has attracted
100 college teams. $50 schOolbOy teams
and a number Of individual competi-
tors. The majority of the college
teams competing will come from the
West.
The pentathlon, with fourteen versa
tile athletes entered ir the ,50O-metre
run, 2OO-metre run, discus, running
broad jump and juvenile throw. which
comprise the event, is the feature or
the programme to-day. Events for
school teams make up the greater por-
ton Of the first days activities.
Bob Simpson, the world hurdle cham
pion. who made his first bow before
Eastern critics at these games last
year, after his sensational races out
West. will be on hand for the 120-yard
high hurdle race. In the contest last
year Simpson sped over the obstacles,
on n rain-soaked turf, in fifteen sec
onds, which performance had never
been equalled.
Several championship relay races are
also to be decided, among them being
the sprint medley with ten starters
and the distance medley contest with
seven competitors. A 440-yard high
hurdle and several field events COM
plete to-day's roster of contests.
The big day of the meet is tomorrow
when all the events will carry a cham
plonship title.
Homer Baker, the international half
mile champion, announced yesterday
his retirement from atletics. Baker
declared that the injury to his left
thigh, suffered in fall in the subway,
would never permit him to compete
again. After remaining indoors for
the last month, Baker ventured out
yesterday with the aid Of a cane, and
telephoned his decision TO Dan Ferris,
of the Amateur Athletic Union office.
Pat Flynn. the former Irish-Ameri-
can runner, and John w. Phillips, the
erstwhile Bronx Church House ath-
lete, have Joined the forces of the
Paulist Athletic Club. With these two
valuable men augmenting its distance
squad, the West Side club can beast of
the strongest 'eross-country squad in
this city.
A. Harry Moore, Commissioner Of
Parks and Fairgrounds in Jersey City,
will play host to several thousand
schoolboys in his district tomorrow,
with a set of games at the Reservoir
Playground. There will be three clas
sitied weight relays, eight events open.
to high school students and a one-mile
relay race for clubs. Joseph T. Hig-
gins. the New England intercollegiate
middle distance champion, viii give an
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to establish a new record.
A number of the larger Eastern col
| leges have awakened 20 the fact that
! they acted too hastily in declaring of
all intercollegiate athletics, following
the declaration that a state of war ex-
listed. lntermural competition has been
found TO be a failure as substitute,
and individual entries for hastily re-
arranged schedules are being advocated
to rectfy the situation created by tho
I first burst of patriotism.