Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-25
BIG TRACKMEET
AT PHILA. TODAY
Athletes From All Parts of the
Nation, Including Many
Newcomers, on Hand
By associated Press

Philadelphia, April 25.-College
and A. A. U. champions and record
holders are included in the van-
guard of athletes who are arriving
here for the twenty-fifth annual relay
carnival of the University of Penn
sylvania, which will be held on
Franklin Field today and Satur-
day. They represent the leading col
leges in the east and some in the
west and have shown by recent
trials that they are on edge. Along
side of them in the track and field
events are many newcomers, whose
speed and stamina have been test
ed in dual meets and in the western
relay championships last Saturday.
All the western championship
teams will try conclusions with the
eastern teams in their respective
events. Michigan, which won the
western half mile relay champion
ship, will compete in the sprint
medley tomorrow and in the one
mile relay on Saturday.
The special events have filled be-
yond expectations. Not only are they
well filled, but the standard of the
competitors is high.
To-day's events are expected to be
quite as interesting and exciting as
to-morrow's program. The feature
events to-day are the pentathlon, or
all-around championship, in which
there are sixteen entries; 440-yard
low hurdles. sprint medley, distance
medley, y-siX-pound weight and
the hop, step and jump.
Some of the Western college teams
arrived yesterday afternoon. Among
the arrivals were Gilfillan. Notre
Dame, a leading entry in the PEN
tathlon; Billy Meehan, former st.
Joseph's College star, now of Notre
Dame, who will run on Notre Danes
crack two-mile team; Haddock,
horse" in the pentathlon; Barlow,
Western conference quarter-m mile
champion, who will run anchor on
the University of Missouri one-mile
team; Ewing, Ohio Wesleyan, a
pentathlon entry, and Johnson,
Michigan. the all-around athlete.
Johnson is not in the best of
shape, it is said. At Des Moines
last Saturday, he could do not bet
ter than fifth in the 100 yards. Haas,
of Grinnell College, won the event
in 10 1-5 seconds. The 100 will be
run off tomorrow.
Penn will make a strong bid for
the sprint medley to-day, with Da-
Wis, Haymont, Smith and GustafSon
running in the order named. Davis
and Raymond will run 220 yards,
Smith a quarter mile and Gustafson
the half. Pittsburgh, with the sem
| sational Frank Shea running quar-
ter and Albrecht the half-mi1e, will
give the Red and Blue a hard race.
Chicago also has formidable quar-
tet for the sprint medley.
The distance medley will find
Penn among the missing. Coach
Lawson Robertson had picked four
runners for this event, but after he
had dropped Granger. the colored
middle distance runner from the
squad, Robbie decided to withdraw
Penn's entry. Lafayette is a strong
contender for the distance medley,
with Kleinspehn, intercollegiate
one-mile champion, and Crawford,
who is said to be even faster than
Kleinspehn, running the three-quar-
ter mile and one mile respectively.
Chicago also has a good team and
| Cornell, if it decided to enter the
distance medley, will make strong
bid for victory.
Johnny Bartels, the lanky Red
and Blue athlete, who won the
pentathlon championship last year,
will attempt to dupliacte his per-
formance this afternoon. He will
have muh stiffer competition than
last year. A post entry in the
pentathlon is AL Hisey, Haverford; (;
Gilfllan, Notre Dame; Gillo, of
Dartmouth, and LIE Gendre, of
Georgetown, are the leading con-
tenders for the all-around cham
pionship which includes the 200
meters, broad jump, 1900 meters,
javelin and discus throw.
Murphy, of Dartmouth, is ex-
pected to win the fifty-six- pound
weight event easily. Sherman Lam
ders and Friedman are the Penn
entries in the hop, step and jump.
Landers has a good chance to win.
Church, of Harvard, is said to be
the best performer over the 440-
yard hurdles. but Walker Smith,
of Cornell, will give him a hard
fight if he enters. Harrison Frazier,
Stoll and Frank Smith are the Penn
entries in this timber-topping race.
In addition to the big events there
will be all kinds of schoolboy relay
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