Evening star., 1921-04-30

Giving the meet an international al
mosphere. the team representing m
combined universities of France w5
, entered IN the one-mile college reid
! ChamptonShlp. 1t was expected thi
| Capt. Deirart. who was unable to cou
pete with his team in the sprij
would be able to take part in todai
race, one Of the features of the loi
program.
Fifteen Teams in Mile Event.
Fifteen American institutions. WHO'D
! teams include some of the fastol
! men IN college, were entered in III
ore-mile event. They are Minnesot}
Notre Dame. Chicago. Cornell. Kansal
Harvard, Kansas Aggies. Missouri
PENNSYLVANIA State. Syracuse. Nj
hraska. Ohio State. PENNSYLVANIA. III
noiS and RedlandS
OF almost equal interest today werl
/ the two and four mile college relaI
championships. the South Atlantic Inl
! tercolleigiatc a. y. one-mile relay and
the Middle Atlantic State Conference
"A y. one-mile relay championship p
All Were filled with high-class run
nerS. and competition was expected "a
be close.
Among the special events were the
loo-yard dash and the 120-yard hur-
dies. Thompson of Dartmouth. Olympic
champion and holder of the world rec
ord: Barron. Pennsylvania State
American title holder, and Knollin
Wisconsin, western champion, were
among the entries in the hurdle race
Establishes World Record.
The establishing of a new wcrt
record for the 440-yard hurdles, by A
Desch of Notre Dame. was the out.
standing feature of yesterdays events
Desch. who was a member Of tn.
United States Olympic team and who
won third place in the 440 meter hur.
dies, scared over the 9 u foot hurdle.
stretched throughout the quarter mile
in SO 4-5 seconds. His record race cu'
two-ffths of a second from the best
previous time, made over the samt
course last season. by J. w. Watts
of Cornell
The race was a contest from the
start between a trio of middle western
hurdlers. Dcsch soon jumped into
Ncad. and although PietinEer and
Hall of Ohio State pressed him hard
during the early part of the flight
the Notre Dame hurdler drew ava,
rapidly in the final stretch, winning
by comfortable margin.
French Team Is Fourth.
The international atmosphere of tn.
meet was furnished by the Universit,
of Paris team, which finished fourth
in the srint medley relay champion.
ship race, which was won by Penn.
summary of principal events:
4iO-yard hurdles-Won by A Desch. Notrt
Dame; second, T. Pittenger, Ohio State; third
l.. HILL Ohio State. Time. 0.53 As
American championship sprint medley relai
race-Won by Pennsylvania (Maxam, Gill. ID
McFadden. Eby): Lafayette. second: Princd
ton third: France. fourth. Time, 331- As.
American championship two mile medley1
NON by Illinois QDonohue. Brown. YateJ
Wharton); second. Iowa State: third. PEND
sy,vania: fourth, Columbia. Time. 1921 3 i
lnterschclastic medley relay championshl
Of America-Won by Huntington rIigh School
Boston; second. Cedar Rapids High School
third. Exeter Academy. Time. 4.39 %.
Iwo-mile international run-won by r. d
Buker. Bates College; second, c. c. Furna1
purdue; third, Nightingale. West virgin}
Time. 9.2J 3-5.
Running hop skip and jump-won by Fl: NJ
osborne, Illinois, 40 feet 9& inches; second
+. Beaublossom Oklahoma A. and NJ.
feet II inches; third. II. f. HattersleJ
Pennsylvania, 40 feet Az inches
Throwing 56-pound weieht-Won bv a
Dandrow, Massachusetts Tech. 32 feet Sd
inches: second. +. Skidmore. Sewanee, 4
feet "a inches; third, l.. Weld, Dartmouth
IS feet inches.