Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-30
ESTABLISHED NEW WORLDS < REcORD FOE 4oe YARD HURDLE

Philadelphia. April 2s-The establish l ment of new worlds record for the 400 l yard hurdles by A. Desch of Eotre Dame 1 university and the excellent all around performance of Robert LaGendre of Georgetown university in winning the Pent2thlon were the outstanding features of the annual University of Pennsylvania relay carnival which opened here today.
 The international atmosphere of the meet was furnished by the University of Paris team, which finished fourth in the i sprint medley relay championship race
 Desch, who was a member of the United States Olympic team at Antwerp last summer, and who won third place in the 400 meter hurdles, opened the two-day track and field games at Franklin field by soaring over the 1-2- foot hurdles stretched throughout the quarter mile in the splendid time of 53 seconds. His rec ord race cut 2-5 of second from the best previous time. made. over the same course lats season, when J. w. Watt of Cornell was clocked in 54 1-4 seconds. The race was a contest from the start between a trio of middle western hurdiers Desch jumped into lead almost as soon as the first hurdle was cleared and ai- i though Pittinger and Hilm of Ohio State | pressed him hard during the early part of the flight the Notre Dame hurdIer continued to clear the hurdles in almost perfect form and, once strengthened out | in the final stretch. drew away rapidly. winning by comfortable margin with Pittinger second and Hill third.
 1 Le Gendre again demonstrated that he is one of the best all-round athletes in the country by winning first place in the Pantathionf from a classy field, ir- cluding Brutus Hamilton, of the Uni yersfty of Missouri, 1920 champion, E.
 L. Bradley, University of Kansas, in-
 tercollegiate champion, and William Bartels, University of Pennsylvania who, like Gendle, was 2 former Pen tathlon winner
 Five events composed the Pentathlon, the broad jump. javelin throw, 2oe metre run, discus throw and the 1500 metre lrun. Points were allotted to each man in the order in which he finished in each icontest. Twenty-one athletes started in Ethis all-round contest
 The tall and powerfully built George
 town athlete won four out of five firsts
 in the quintet of events which compose the contest. His poorest showing was
 made in the javelin throw in which he was able to finish no better than sixth.
 The medley relay championships,
 which also featured the first days pro-
 gram, were productive of some excellent
 team and individual running. =
 First place hof1ors in the interscholas- tic medley championship went to the
 Huntington High school quartet of Bos-
 ton. In winning Huntington set a new
 record for the event of four minutes 3s
 2-5 seconds. ;" The former record, 4.44 was made by Exeter last year..
 The intercollegiate sprint relay cham ; pionship proved a popular victory for
 the University of Pennsylvania. runners
 with Early Eby, the anchor-man, bring
 ing out great burst of cheering when he sprinted into the lead near the close
 of the mile contest. The University oi
 Paris quartet made It's first appearance
 in American competition in this event and while the Frenchmen were not quite , Iup to the speed, set by the pace-r1akinf ' teams, managed to clinch fourth place with an impressive sprint in the stretci run. The distance medley relay was a 2 clear cut victory for western runners < the University. of Illinois winning iron . Ohio state after a gruelling struggle 2 Pennsylvania was third and Columbi; fourth.
 The races were run under a leaden drizziing ksy and after the first fey levents the rain slowed up both trac,
 Ksnd field to such an extent that record Ibreaking was out of the question. Not : jwithstanding the dismal weather condi
 ltions close to 115,ooo spectators witness
 led the contests.