The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-04
ENGLISH TEAM BREAKS
TWO MILE RECORD RUN
BY It'd MEREDITH

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Philadelphia, May Twenty -fivc
Thousand people turned ont to see
the second day of the Penn relays and
l feel sure that the same number left
the field greatly surprised at the won
dcrfui running OF the Oxforxi-Cam-
bridge relay team that broke the two
mile record by IA good two and three
fifths seconds.
Prior ia the race pennsylvania
were the favorites with Illinois as
second choice but after the first quar-
ter of the first relay Penn lost all her
following and never had chance.
Illinois, finishing second. did all that
WAS said of them prior to the games
and also ran better than the old
record but they too were outclasss>d
by the great English team.
Cornell took the lead at the start
and with Mayer. intercollegiate
champion, led the field home in l.99
with latham Of England running
we'll up in thir position. From this
time on IL was all England's race as
stallard in the second relay gained
the lead ard ran the second fastest
half OF the day. 1.56 As. handing
Muliinran a good lead which he gave
10 the great Rudd. The latter is Il
half miller from every sense of the
word and it would have taken a
great man 10 beat him today The
determination that was i'll his lace
and the soreeful running that ne
showed were a treat. Ecdd ran
along for the first $50 at fast pace
and / thought that he was doing ms
best all the way. but at this point
he uncorked sprint that carried
him home with yards to spare. Rudd's
half was run in I54 rs which was
very fast for the condition OF the
track which had been badly cut up
by the previous races.
Penn Makes F<sor Showing.
Penn made very poor showing
i, in the first two relays and never hau
chance after this time. Earl Eoy
ran along and finished in third place
hut the sturdy little Penn man did
not have a chance TO better his po-
sition.
Penn came back strong in the one
mile relay and won from the crack
Minnesota team by good I'VE YARDS.
| Eby came back in this race ana gave
| q good exhibition of what he can 40
In the special events the competl-
| ton was very keen, but strong wind
prevented any exceptional perform
| ances Scholz, Of Missouri just nosed
| Lever. of Penn. OUT of first place IN
the 100 yards in 10 Is seconds, after
winning his heat in ten fiat, Thomp-
| son had all that he could do to beat
Smith, OF Cornell, in the l2o-yard
hurdles in Is is seconds The wind
cut the time down considerably in
both of these races.
| sherman Ianders. after winning
/ the hop step and jump yesterday
came out and won the pole vault to-
day by vaulting twelve feet six
inches. Landers is at last hitting the
stride of four years ago, when as q
school boy he became famous
In the four-mfle race Penn State
repeated their performance OF yes
| terday in the distance medley and II
was through the great running OF
Shields in both races that they were
able to do this.
It was a great meet and was ia
| vored with fine. day. The track was
I Yiot"so fast due to much running yes
torday and early today. II shows
that this country will be as good this
year~ein the Oiympics as it was in
1912, but 1t also shows that they will
| have great competition from the
Englishmen in the runs. Jeppo. who
! ran in the hurdles for England
showed Ip very we'll and promises
| to be a good man, while for the mid-
| die distances this country will have
1 hard time against Rudd and Stallard.
/ The American Olympic committee
| were present and watched the men
in the different events. 1t is through
men, that will go to Antwerp