South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-02
ENGLISHMEN WIN
TWO NILE RELAY
AT PHILADELPHIA
Classic Event of College Meet
Won by Oxford-Cam-
bridge Team.

PHILADELPHIA. MAY Eng
Iish varsity runners scored an inter
national triumph mere today when
the combined oxford Cambridge
university team OF half milers de-
f6ated the leading college quartets
Of this country in the two champion
snip relay race, the feature contest
OF the University of Pennsylvania
s6th annual relay carnival. Forced
10 run at a terrific pace by their
American competitors, the visiting
collegians showed that their victory
was ia no manner a fiuke 10y taking
the lead in the third quarter and
finishing in a new world record
tine OF seven minutes so 2-5 seconds
for the two miles.
The four runners clipped So
seconds from the previous record
which was Jointly held by the Irish
American 4. q. team consisting OF
Riley. Bromilow. Sheppard and
Kt-iat and the Yale university quar-
tet composed Of Roper. Cooper Bar
l,er and Overton- The Irish-Am eri-
can club runners first set seven min
utes. So seconds in 1910 and the
Yale runners cqualied the time in
1915
In today's contest the English
team lined up at the start with rival
quartets from seven colleges or uni
versities OF the United States. In
the group were Pennsylvania, Illi-
nois Ames, Cornell. Yale NOtre
Dame and Massachusetts Technical.
Conditions were almost ideal for the
race. which was bitterly contested.
Summaries:
Penn State. Bartels. penn. second;
McWilliam, Lafayette. thru, dis
lance I65 feet. Sis inches
one mile relav-Wo1 by B.wdOin;
second. Rochester; third. Buffalo.
Time 3:3S SIS.
One mile relay college-Won by
Boston college. Colgate second,
Ohio Wesleyan third. time. 3:29 10.
South Atlantic intercollegiate one
mile relay championship; won by
Johns Hopkins Georgetown sec
Ond; Virginia third, Catholic Uni
versity fourth Time 1927 is.
Middle Atlantic states conference.
one mile relay championship; won
10y Rutgers; second Lafayette; third,
Delaware; fourth. Dickinson. Time,
1926 SO, new record for this
event
one mile relay college, class b.
championship; won by Redlands
university Of California; second.
Syracuse: third. COIum bia: fourth,
Pittsburg. Time. 1925 2-5, new
record for this event
Two mile college relay champion
ship Of America, won by Oxford
Cambridge OF England; second
Illinois. third. Pennsylvania; Cornell
fourth. Time. 1850 2-5. new
worlds record
One mile. freshman college relay
championship Of America: won by
Cornell; second, Penn. third, SYRIA
cuse: fourth, Dartmouth Time,
1928 1-5.
One mile preparatory school relay
championship Of America, won by
Exeter; second. Huntington; third,
Mercersville. Time. 1881.
Pole vault, won by Landers. Penn
sylvania, Il feet. six inches: Web
Der, Yale. Gardner. Yale, and Har-
wood. Harvard, tied for second at
u feet.
One mile high school relay cham
pionship of America, won by Masten.
Park; BarringeT. second. Newark
Central. third Time. 1891 2-5.
Twenty-Five hurdles: Final won
by Z. Thompson, Dartsmouth: w
smith. Cornell: second: Trobridge
Princeton, third. Time. Is 1-5
seconds.
One mile college relay champion
ship Of America. won by Pennsyl-
vania; Minnesota, second: Michigan
third; Princeton, fourth. Time 1922
2-5.
One hundred yards dash final. won
by Scholz. Missouri. Lever. Pennsyl-
vania second Brown. Princeton
third: LeConey Lafay cite. fourth.
Time 10 1-5.
Discus throw won by Bartels.
Pennsylvania, distance 12S feet: Nc
Clurg, Missouri and Thompson. Dart
mouth, tied for second. at 122 feet.
inches; s. II. Thompson. Princeton.
third, lis feet.
Broad jump. won by Courtois New
York. % feet. inches. Way, Penn
sylvania, % feet. 6 "a inches. sec
Ond; Grubb. Pennsylvania State. %
feet. 4 SIS inches. third: Rodkey.
Kansas, % feet. IA inch. fourth.
-Four mile college relay cham pion-
ship OF America. won by Penn State
college; Syracuse second: Cornell
third: Chicago fourth. Time. Is
minutes, 16 As seconds.