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Blue. A big section has been reserved
for the English followers. Of whom
there are many here. Cornell will have
large slice of the seats and Yale and
Princeton will be equally strong along
the sidelines.
The biggest event that will be staged
today is the pentathlon. Two Of the
best athletes in collegiate ranks who ex-
pected TO be among the contestants can
not be here. These are Byrd. Of Virginia
Poly. and LeGendre. Of Georgetown.
The latter is kept away by Illness. But
even without these athletes. there will
be n field that il sure to make some Of
the records for the event fall before
the crowd wcnds it's way homcward to
night. -.
Big Hurdle Event
The yard hurdles will be an
other fine attraction. Among the cracks
for this will be Thompson. Dartmouth
Watt. Cornell: Hill. Ohio: Iudd. Ok
ford Cambridge: Jack and Frazier. of
Penn. and several other stars. II IL
also expected that the record for this
race will be dropped. ..
Other events Of importan," that go
on today are: Throwing the fifty six
pound hammer, hop. step and jump.
sprint medley. three mile race. dis
tance medley. interscholastic medley.
Philadelphia grammar school champion :
ships. competition between the John
Wanamaker collegiate institutes Of
Philadelphia and New York.
As an example OF what the colleges
are doing for the relays twenty seven
Cornell athletes will compete.
Virtually all of Cornelrs intercol. &.
legiate champions and point winners are
included in the delegation. which com
prises the flower of the Ithacans' 1920
track squad.
Cornell will be entered in the mile.
two mile and four mile relay events.
but not in the medley relay. The Red
and White also has representation in
the three mile run. the dash, hurdle
events. jumps. pole vault and weight
events.
The two mile relay team, composed
Of the fastest half milcrs in the uni
versity. has been picked especially with
| the idea of giving the Oxford Cambridge
team and the American entries n good
race. This team is composed Of Cap
tain Mayer. intercollegiate half mile
champion: John. Abreu and Stanton.
all of them reported to have done bet
ter than, two minutes for the half The
four mile team is made up Of McDer-
mott. an Intercollegiate place winner
in the mile run last year. and Dick
! inson. Harper and Strickler. The one
mile team is made up of Chapman. Cis
Ter. Hull and Davidson IT is admit =
tedly an inexperienced quartet
In the three mile run Cornell will
enter Brown. promising distance run
ner.
Yale Relay Team
lalc's two mile relay team was an
nounced yesterday as follows:
Egbert 6. DrisrOll. +. w. Hills. T..
W. Siemens and Harvey =. Reed. The
team was picked as a result of the half
mile run at the spring games Tuesday.
in which the runners finished AS the
first four men in the reverse order.
Reeds performance in winning the
race in | minute - 30 seconds eX-
hibited him in his top notch form. He
has been anchor runner of the Yale
relay team all winter and has won vir-
tually all of his mile match races. In
cidentally the Yale relay team has been
undefeatcd all winter. 1t twice beat
liarvard'S fast two mile team. and 1t
won from the southern champions. Uni
versity Of Virginia. at the Johns Hop
kinS games in Baltimore. In this meet
Reed also defeated Crawford. the La =
fayette distance star. in the special
| 1000 yard race. while Siemens won the
, mile race from Fersman, of Princeton.