The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-30
Western Athlete Sets New Mark for
 Hurdles at PMHy

Philadelphia, April 29.-The estab fishing of a new worlds record for the 440-yard hurdles by A. Desch of Notre Dame university and the excellent all round performance of Robert Legendre of Georgetown university in winning the pentathlon were the outstanding features of the annual University of Pennsylvania relay carnival, which orened here today.
 The international atmosphere of the meet was furnished by the University of Paris team, which finished fourth in the spring medley race champion ship race. Desch. who was a member of the United States Olympic team at i Antwerp last summer and won third place in the 400-metre hurdles, opened the day track and field games at Franklin field by soaring over the ? F foot hurdles stretched throughout the quarter mile in the splendid time of 53 i-5 seconds. Ills record race cut 25 of a second from the best previous time, made over the same course last season, when j. w. Watt of Cornell was checked in at 54 1-5 seconds. Pit tinge finished second and Hill third. | FEN "A | HLON W NINNEh
 Five events composed the pentath- lon, theG broad jump. iavelin throw. .Oe-metTe run. discus throw and the 1,500-metre run. Points were allotted to each man in the order in which he | finished in each contest Legendre was first, with the low score of 10 points; Hamilton second with 13; Bradley third, with 16; Bartels fourth with l9. c. Reinartz, Muhlenburg col lege, and V. Clapp of the United States Naval academy. tied for fifth place, with 29 points. These six athletes were the only survivors of the 21 which started in the all-round contest. | The tall and powerfully built Georgetown athlete won four frsts out of the five events. In the javelin lthrow he finished sixth. Legendre captured the running broad jump with a leap of 21 feet and II inches: won the 200metre dash in % 3-5 seconds the discus throw with 126 feet inches and the 150O-metre run in minutes 50 seconds. Bartels, who won the | iavelin hurlN set a new carnival rec ord for this event by sending the shaft 16S feet 111-4 inches. This, however. 1 is considerably short of the American world record.
 l First place honors in the interschol- astic medley championship west to the Huntingdon High school quartet of Boston, which won with a trlfle to spare from the Cedar Rapids team. Huntingdon set a new record for the event of minutes 39 2-5 seconds. The former record, 4:44 was made by Ex- l eter last year
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 l The intercollegiate sprint relay championship proved a pupular vic- tory for the University of Pennsyl- vania runners. Earl Eby the anchor man. sprinted into the lead near the close of the mile contest after. taking the pace from Lafayette and Prince ton runners during the final half mile relay The University of Paris quar- tet made it's first appearance in Amer ican competition in this event. and while the French four, consisting of Biget, Zurin, Goullioux and Ferry, was not quite up to the speed set by the pace making teams t managed to clinch fourth place without the serv- ices of Captain Del"art, who was ill The races were run under a leaden, drizzling sky and after the first few events the rain slowed up both track and field to such extent that record breaking was out of the question. Not 1withstanding the dismal weather con- ditions, nearly 15,000 spectators wit messed the contests from the open stands.