New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Penn Quartet Sets
New Worlds Mark
At Legion Games
Relay Team Clips ] 2-5 Sec
onds From Record Figure
for Mile Made i'm 1915


PHILADELPHIA, June A new
worlds record for the one-mile relay
race was established at the American
Legion games on Franklin Field to-day
by the University Of Pennsylvania
team. C. d. Rogers. l.. A. Brown, Earl
w. Eby and R. S. Maxam, the Quaker
runners, covered the eight furlongs in
3 minutes Is 3-5 seconds, clipping l 2-5
seconds from the previous mark es-
tablished by Kaufman, Lockwood Lip
pincott and Meredith, also a U. of P.
quartet, in 1915.
The new mark was made in the in
ternational and interstate national Lee
gion onemile event, and the perform
ance was all the more remarkable be-
cause of poor start by Rogers, the
lead-off man
The United States Army and Navy
had great battle in the one-mile
service relay championship, the navy
winning by inches from the Sd Army
Corps quartet. The I'd Army Corps
team finished third. Earl Thompson,
Dartmouth's great hurdler, easily won
the 120-yard high hurdle event from a
big field He started from scratch.
Johnny Gray, of this city, won the
12-mle marathon race, finishing 800
yards ahead"of Cliff Mitchell, of the St
Christopher Club, New York, who won
the race last year. Lever, Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, won perma-
nent possession of the Legion Cup
winning the 100-yard dash for the sec
ond year in row.
The summaries:
1oo-yard dash-Won by Harold B, Lever,
Philadelphia; w. r. Williams, unattached,
second; G.. A. Deitmage, Jacksonville. Fla,
third; Harry B. vanosten, Philadelphia,
fourth. Time, 0:1o.
soo-yard run National Legion cham
pionship)-Won by j. w prisc2ll Massa-
chusetts T. j. King. Massachusetts,. sec
lond Brevo, Boston A. A., third Time,
! :19.
5oo-yard run service championship
Won by Captain Tom Scott. Signal Corps:
Carl Guthner. Great Lakes A. A. second
Private c W. s. ssh9smaksr, G,i1, s Cd Army corps
Private w. s. Shoemaker, Sd Army Corps
44o-ysrd hurdle race-Won by Fred
Harmer. Meadow Brook Tom Williams
Lafayette, second; Lloyd, Pauist "A. c.,
New York, third. Time 1;56H
1.Oo0-yard run (service championship)-
Won by Don Scott. Signal Corps; D. b.
Bauduiske. Company II. c. A. A, second ;
f. Stapleford. Sd Army Corps, third.
Time 2:26 Is.
one-mle run (national Legion cham
pionship)-w by Donald w. Head Phil
adelpha; Andrew Hister, Philadelphia.
second Walter Irwin. Norwood, Pa, third.
Time. AGO.
12o-yard hurdles (handicap)- by
Earl Thompson. Dartmouth (scratch): F.
A. Smith. Pennsylvania 90 yards). second /:
j. r. Baral, Meadow Brook Club, Phila-
delphia G. yards). third. Time OILS 1-5.
Marathon race. 2 miles-won by John
Gray. Enterprise Catholic Club, Philadel-
phia; Ciif Mitchell st. CHRISTOPHER Club,
brook Club. Philadelphia, third; II. P.
siegel, Meadowbrook. fourth; Willie Ky
ronen, Milrose Club. New York fifth; VIII
liam Kennedy. unattached, sixth: Peter
Morningside Club. New York. eighth; Har-
ry Rosen. Morningside. ninth; Cliff w.
Gruff. unattached, tenth. Tme-1;O ;O6:36.
. Mile run (speciaD-cW by II. G. Cut
second N. A Bittler jr., Meadowbrook,
third. Tme--4:2S.
Mile relay race (service championships
won An BY United q, States Navy relay team
Gerry and V. r. Hanson); Sd Army Corps,
second; I'd Army Corps. third. Time
1874 5-5.
22o-yard dash (handicap) by Le-
coney, Meadow Brook (scratch); Sergeant
second; A. S; Golden, Meadow Brook Gl
% yards), fourth. Time, o:2195
International and interstate National
Legion one mile championship relay race
Won by University of Pennsylvania &C..
D. Rogers l.. A. Brown. E. w Eby and
X. 5. Maxam) Massachusetts (J. j. Sulli-
van van, cafdrey. lanan, T. J. King and J. W. Dris-
Great Great War Veterans of Canada. fourth.
:, High jump thandcap)--won by O. D.
Hampson, unattached (heght. feet 9
meadow Brook (6 feet ,. inch. handca p
inches). second; Lieutenant f. Vidal. Sd
Army Corps 6 feet, scratch). third.