South Bend news-times., 1921-04-30
CLIPS TWO.FTFTHS
OF A SECOND FROM
PREVIOUS RECORD
lie Gendre. of Georgetown,
Wins All Around Event
Over CLASSY Field.

81 Associated Press:
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, April Zs.-
Tne establishing OF new worlds >
record for the 44o-yard hurdles by
A. U-asch OF Notre Dame university
and the excellent all-round per
formance OF Robert LeGeEdre OF
Georgetown university. IN winning
the pentathlon. were the outstand-
ing features Of the annual university
% Pennsylvania relay carnivaI
which opened here Friday.
The international atmosphere OF
the meet was furnished by the Uni
versity OF Paris team, which finish
Cd fourth in the sprint medley re-
lay championship race.
Cuts Two-F1fth Second.
Desch who was a member Of the
United States Olympic team at Ant
sverp last summer and who won
third place IN the 440 metre hurdles.
oLened the two day track and field
games at Franklin field BY soaring
over the IL foot hurdles stretched
throughout the quarter mile in the
spiendid time OF SO As seconds.
His record race cut two-ffths OF
second from the best previous time,
made over the same course last sea
son. when ]. W. Watt or Cornell
was osocked IL 90 10 seconds
The race was a contest from the
start between a trio OF middle west
ern hurdlers Desch jumped into a
lead almost as soon as the first hur-
dle was cleared and although Pitt
niger and Hill OF Ohio State pressed
hsn. hard during the early part OF
the fight the Eotre Dame hurdler
drew away rapidly in the final
stretch. winning by a comfortable
margin with Pittlnger second and
H1u third.
LeGendre again demonstrated that
be II one OF the best ail-round ath-
ietes in the country by winning fret
place in the pentathlon from a CLASSY
field. including Brutus Hamilton OF
the University OF Missouri 1920
champion. FL Bradley. University OF
Kansas. intercollegiate champion.
and William Bartels. University OF
Pennsylvania. who like LeGendro
was former pentathlon winner.
Five Events.
Five events composed the penta-
thlon. the board jump. javehn
throw 200 metre run, discus throw
and the 1. 500 metre run. Points al
lowed 10 each man in the order in
which n finished in each contest
I.eGendre was first with the low
score OF 10 points Hamilton sec
ond with 1S: Bradley third with
16: Bartels fourth with 10. c. Rein
artz. Muhlenourg college, and v.
Clamp OF the United States naval
academy. tied for afth Ilace with
% points These six athletes wero
the only survivors OF the p which
started I'm the all-round contest.
The tall and powerfully built
Georgetown athlete won four firsts
out Of the five events. IN the jave-
lin throw ne finished sixth. Le-
Gcndre captured the running broad
Jump with a leap OF 21 feet. IL
inches. won the 200 metre dash in
% 90 seconds. the discuss throw
with 12S feet. s inches; and the
1900 metre rum IN 4 minutes. 30
seconds. Bartels. who won the
iaveHn burl. set a new carnival rec
ord for this event By sending the
shaft 16S feet. 11K inches. This.
however, is considerably short OF
the American record and the world
record.
The medley relay championships
which also featured the rst days
program, were productive OF some
excellent team and Individual run
ming
First place -honors in the inter-
scholastic medley championship
went 20 the Huntington high school
quartet OF Boston. which won with
a trihe 10 spare from the Cedar
Rapids team. Huntington set a
new record for the event OF 4 min
utes. So 2-5 seconds. The former
record. 4:44. was made by Exeter
last year.
French Team Fourth.
The intercollegiate sprint relay
championship proved a popular vic
tory for Pennsylvania runners. Earl
Eby. the anchor man. sprtnted into
the lead near the close OF the mile
contest after taking the pace from
Lafayette and Princeton runners
during the hnal half mile relay. The
University or Paris quartet made is
frst appearance in American com
petition in this event. and while the
French four. consisting OF BigeL
Selr:n. Gou!neux and Ferry was not
quite up 10 the speed SCI by the
A=ce making teams. it managed to
e!!nch fourth place although with
out the services OF Captain Delvart
vEv was i4l
The distance medley was clean
"a. victory for western runners
Fhe University OF Illinois. with the
iowa state team az its heels won
ss.e- a gruelling struggle carried
a.nlost 20 the finish tape. Eastern
colleges divided :he balance OF the
nonors in his event Pennsy
taking third and Columbis fourth.
The races were run under a lead
en- drizziing SKY. and after the first
few events the rain slowed up both
track and field 20 such an extent
tha, record breaking was out OF the
Question Notwithstanding the dis
nal weather conditions nearly
$1,000 spectators witnessed the con
tests. holding their places in the
open stands until the last race was
hnishsd.
MANTATt WTNS MEET