New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-27
BARTELS features
IN penn RELAYS
Quaker Freshman Wins Pentath-
lon From a Mediocre Field

Philadelphia, April 27.-John Bar
tells, Il big, awkward freshman of the
University of Pennsylvania, won the
pcntathlon, the all around college
athletic championship of America,
on Franklin field yesterday after
noon.
The event, which consists of five
contests on track and field, was the
feature of the first day Of the twenty
fourth annual relay carnival of the
University of Pennsylvania, and sew
eral thousand Spectators q majority
o" whom wore the navy blue or the
Khaki, saw him defeat more than a
dozen stalwart young collegians for
the coveted honor.
AT the end Of his days perfor-
mances Bartels had the low score of
! 5 points. d. M. Shea of Dartmouth
finished second with 10. NJ. Had
dock of the University OF Kansas was
third with "a, one point better than
tIcat recorded by Charles Hammond
Of the University of the South. II.
Bechtel of Lafayette finished fifth,
and sixth place went to a sturdy
Ncungster named Emery of Penn
State, who was the last to qualify.
Bartels literally won in walk. At
the end of the $500 meter run, the
last contest of the event, he was
walking no faster than does the or
binary New Yorker who is out for a
stroll on Fifth avenue. He finished
nearly a quarter of a mile behind
his opponents, but it was not neces-
sary for him to do better. In the
earlier events he had displayed suf-
ficient speed, strength and stamina to
give him a lead that only complete
collapse in the long run could over
come And Bartels took no chances
ot collapsing. He was out to cover
the course and he did it in the most
leisurely fashion.
Rartels is a giant of a lad. stand
ing s feet inches in his stocking
feet and weighing nearly 200 pounds.
He has just passed out of his teens
and is studying hard in the engineer
inc school preparing himself to take
& Up the fight against the Hun. His
home is in New Jersey and he came
to Penn from Stevens Prep.
When he landed in Lawson Robert
sons care at Penn he could do moth
ms in the athletic line. Because of
his great size the noted coach tried
him out throwing the heavy weights,
but he made little progress and Rob-
ertson switched him to the javelin
and the hurdles. SO we'll did he per-
form in practice in these specialties
he was pointed for the pentathlon
and Yesterdays victory is the result.
His success was probably the first
ever scored by a freshman in the
gruelling contest
He kept his score down to is
POINTS bv winning the javelin, finish
ing second in the broad jump, fifth
n
discus throw and sixth in the 1900
meteor run.
While the pentathlon was the fea-
ture of the days sport more than a
score of other events were decided
and each furnished a stirring con-
test Among them were a dozen for
army and navy men and two college
relay championships.
West Wins Relay Titles.
To Western institutions went both
OF the titles. A quartet of sprinters
from the University of Pittsburgh
won the one mile medley relay cham
pionship and a team from Chicago
University romped away from Penn
svIyania men in the two and u half
mile medley relay.
The army and navy championships
medley relay at one mile was won by
Howard Berrys Camp Dix team. He
and Lfeuts. w. F. Kelley, G. NJ. Finch
and William Anderson possessed too
much speed for their opponents and
won in hollow fashion.
The Pelham Bay Naval Training
station team, composed of Willie
Gordon, Charlie Clark, G. w. East
nan and E. A. Anderson. finished
second, and the Charleston Naval
Training Station quartet finished
third.