The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27
FAST MILE BY
PENN'SRELAY
Quaker's Timed in 1915 at
Their Own Athletic
Carnival.
CORNELL RUNNERS SCORE
Take 4 Nile Event, While Chi.
cago Wins Interme-
date Race
CORNELL RUNNERS SCORE
NJ GEORGE n. UNDERWOOD.
Syseol Despatch TO TIE shy.

esSo ana Pennsylvania divided the hop-
ors In the twenty-ifth annual Pepn..
yivania Relay Carnival on Franklin
Field under arctic conditions to-day. The
lthicans maintained their cherished dis
lance reputation by winning the national
four-mile college relay championship.
Chicago brought honors to the West by
taking the two milo American COLLEGE
relay title.
Penns flying four raced to a con-
vincins victory in the other American
College Relay Championship, at one
mile. The Red and Blues s.25 perform
ance for ono mile under a strong wind
and a chilling atmosphere was the most
remarkable performance of the day.
Nebraska, added starter and a dark
horse, beat Cornell for second laurel.
in the one mile relay championship, the
1thaeians having to be content with
third place. Syracuse and Princeton
finished second and third In the four
mile race, which Cornell captured in
1871 4-e. Harvard was second in the
two mile title race, with Notre Dame
The individual star of the afternoon
was Sol Butler, the negro from Du-
buque University. who was a double
winner. He supplemented his winning
70 feet half inch leap on the running
broad Jump by taking a great field Of
flyers into camp in the 100 yard special
race. He covered the century'in 10 80
seconds against a strong wind.
Penn Freshmen Lead
Tho one mile Freshmen College relay
championship OF America resulted In a
duel between Princeton and Penn, with
Columbia the only other entrant, out Of
1t from the start Penn won in 3 :3s 4-5,
vita Princeton right in the hunt tn the
last few yards.
Nercersburg led homo Exeter and Hill
School in the one mile prepar atory school
relay championship race. Exeter fought
it out with Mercersburg from flag fall
10 nnish. The Hill School boys were
poor thirds all the way.
Baltimore Poly won the ono mile hish
school relay championship of America,
with Newark Csntral High School sec-
oad and Masten Park School Of Buffalo
thhd. The time. 3 80 is, was compar-
atiVely slow.
New Workers Compete.
l no wind was not quite as strong rs
Yesterday. but the mercury lowered
around the freezing point and the biting
blasts kept spectators and competitors
sl'ivering. The wind blew straight down
the stretch and some of the athletes
acted as II they were pushed back by
unseen hands. Not in the twenty -fiSe
years in which the Penn carnivals have
been staged have such adverse conditions
interfered with the competition.
Many schools from New York and vi
cinity had teams entered In the scholas-
tic relays that preceded the college cham
porships. In the relay open to Eras-
mus Hall. Barrinser. Flushing. Newark
South Side. White Plains. Batten, Mont
clair. Piainneld. Hackensack and New
Brunswick High schools. Barringer won
IN the good time of 3 40 3-5. Flushing
was second and Batten nosed out Eras-
mus Hall tor third laurels.
Manual Training of Brooklyn failed
10 pace in the event IN which the Blue
and Gold started. Honors in that con-
est wentto Western High of Washing
ton, with Trenton second and Dickinson
Of Jersey City third.
Clinton Four Beaten.
lie Witt Clinton was led home by Har-
risburg Tech and East Orange High in
another scholastic relay. New York Prep
won thes pec.al race against Perkiomen.
Pennington and Princeton Prep. Brook
Ign Polly and 81. Benedict's failed to
place in the relay in which they started.
iaverford won, with Blair second and
Tome third.
Tho one mile service championship
produced hot race among fours from
Camp Upton. the Philadelphia navy yard
and the Fifth Naval district Hampton
Roads. The Philadelphia tars beat the
boys from Yaphank by small margin,
with the Gobs from Hampton Roads a
good third.
New York College OF Dental and Oral
Surgery won it's match race with DrexeI
Institute. Stevens ran second to Colgate
in the race in which Temple University
and Delaware College also ran.
Tho race for the South Atlantic Inter-
collegiate championship. contested among
Georgetown. Maryland State. Johns
Hopkins. North Carolina and Catholic
University. went TO Johns Hopkins in
1859 10, with Georgetown second and
Catholic University third.
Rutgers Takes Title.
The middle Atlantic conference cham
plonship went to Rutgers, with New
York University second and Lafayette
third.
The Class b championship relay with
Penn State, Syracuse, Columbia, Holy
Cross, Pittsburg. Wabash and Boston
College as entrants was won by SYRIA
cuse, with Penn State and Holy Cross
finishing second and third.
Then came the FIRST major relay cham
pionship of the afternoon, for the two
mile championship. Yale, Harvard. Co
lumbia, Dartmouth. Cornell, Syracuse,
Sotrs Dame. Pittsburg, Chicago. Holy
Cross and Massachusetts, Tech were en-
tered. but only four-Columbia, Chicago,
Harvard and Sotro Dame--answered the
cali to post.
Mccosh OF Chicago. who ran the first
half mile for his team. got away in the
lead and set n terrific pace. Despite
the wind he flashed past the quarter
post in IS l-5 seconds He covered the
full four furlongs In 2:oth and handed
IN q ten yard lead to Moore over Good
win. who ran the second leg for Har-
ward.
Goodwin made up the distance on tho
second leg on Moore Douglass OF Har-
ward and Lewis of Chicago finished the
third leg on almost even terms. Column
bla and Notre Dame both were being
di-tauced, Speer OF Chicago got away
IN the lead on the final leg over o'CoD-
re'l OF Harvard. The Crimson athlete
look the Maroon mans pace for 600
-srcs and then tried to pass the Chlcs-