The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24

tlvlty-beginning at the Penn relays next Friday and ending with the inter collegiate meet at the Harvard sta dium the last of May-never equaled in the whole history of track and field games.
 The breaking of the American Marathon record this week by over two minutes, the startling time reported from the Pacific coast by Paddock, the defeat of Harvard track team by Penn State-these are among the definite things pointing to the foregoing con clusion.
 Going ove~ the prospects hastily 1t may be said that there is really less confliction of <interesting dates than one would suppose; the ardent track fan can see almost all the good meets. Next Friday and Saturday the season will really open with the Peln relays at Philadelphia.
 BILL COUGHLIN ENTERED
 This column has already instance1 several notable contests that will take place there, particularly the one. two and four- mile championships. But this week there arises reason for even a new and added interest devel- oping in the quarter mile hurdles. for the University of the South is sending up Coughlin; Notre Dame is sending Desch and Redlands is sending Kilby to fight out this event. Thes story is that all three can beat the record and get under five seconds. Ceughlin is the man who nearly defeated Watt last years winner at the tape; Desen was third at the Olympic champion shlps In this event, and Kilby has made some time that looks very good to his packers. After the Penn relays will come various dual meets, in whicn Yale, Harvard and Princeton figure, and on May there vii be a remark ably interesting triangular contest Wltn Plttsburg, Syracuse and Colgate contending at Syracuse. An excellent dual meet follows one the 14th between the Naval academy and Pittsburg. and on the following Saturday Pittsburg holds the annual intercollegiate and interscholastic games,
 OTHER MEETS
 The New England meet and the mid dle west conference meet, as well as dual contests, will serve to create m. usual interest in the intercolle.giates. rms great meeting will be held in the Harvard stadium on May 27 and 2S usually 1t has occurred at the close of the season, but this year on June jl there will be a Penn-Penn State dual meet at State college, and probably on June IS, the National Collegiate asso- olo'iou WILL nOlu US f1rSt big national meet at Chicago. Finally, it is possi- Die that Yale and Harvard may accep. the proposition for a just meeting with oxford and Cambridge in July.
 While everyone knew that the con- dltions favored fast race. few be- lived that the American Marathon would result in the clipping of the rec ord, and certainly by not as much as two minutes. Frank Zuna of Newark a former service boy, kept in the front rom very early point in the. race. ana by the time it was half over was pulling away from his field. Mellor of Cnlcago was the only one who could stay With him, and even he was in diff flculties before they were in sight of nome. Zuna finally finished 25 miles in hours, IS minutes, 57 3-5 seconds. tho former record being held by Ryan. ? hours, 21 minutes and 1915 seconds made in 1912.
 The Tact that Paddock, the star Calie iornla runner, who has just made such remarkable times out on the coast. will not come east is a severe disappoint- ment to all the followers of track events here it IS especially so to those who saw Paddock run last year in the Harvard stadium, and believe that he can repeat the times made out on the coast.