Arizona republican., 1921-04-30
LOWERS WORLD
 RECORD F0R LOW HURDLES EVENI I

PHILADELPHIA, April zs. = The lestablishing of a new worlds record l for isse 440.yard hurdles by A. Desch iof Notre Dame university, and the lexcelIent allrouHd performance of Robert Legendre of Georgetown uni Iversity, in winning the pentathlon. Iwere the outstanding features of the annual University of Pennsylvania relay carnival. which opened today. The international atmosphere of l the meet was furnished by the Uni- versity of Paris team, which finished fourth in the sprint medley relay championship race Desch, who vas Olympic team, and who won third 1 place in the 40e-meter hurdles, opened the two-dav track and field games at Franklin field by soaring over the 2h foot quarter mile hiir- dies in the splendid time of 53 4-5
 seconds. He cut 25 of second from
 the best previous time, made over the
 same course last season by J. w. Watt of Cornell.
 The race was a contest from the otart between a trio of middle western murders. Desch jumped into a lead almost as soon as the first hurdle Twas cleared and. although Pittinger and Hill of Ohio State pressed him
 hard during the early part of the fAh6At, ltl0 ANOl4C 4a4A1C Aax0ACI oICW laway rapidly in the final stretch, vim ming by a comfortable margin. with Pittinger second and Hill third.
 Legeudre demonstrated that he is lone of the best all- around athletes of the country by winning first place in the pentathlon from a classy field, including Brutus Hamilton of the
 University of Missouri, 1920 cham ipion; F. L. Bradley, University of Kansas intercollegiate champion, and
 William Martels, University of Penn tsylyania, who, like Legendre, was q former pentath1on winner.
 Five events composed the pentath-
 lon. the broad jump, javlin throw.
 200-metre run, discus throw and 1,500-metre run. Points were allowed 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. Bartefs fourth , with 19. Creinartz, Muslenburg col i. llege, and ". Clapp of the United
 States Naval academy tied for fifth place with 29 points. These six ath- letes were the only survivors of the 21 test.
 , The tall and powerfully buill
 Georgetown athlete won four firsts
 out of the five events. In the javelir , throw he finishe dsixth. Legendrt : captured the running broad jumr , with leap of 21 feet II inches; wor , the 200-metre dash in P 3-5 seconds : the discus throw with 126 feet { l, inches This, however, is consider. ' four minutes 50 seconds. Bartels { who won the javelin huri, set a new z tcarnival record for this event b, sending the shaft 16S feet 11X
 inches 8his. however, is consider. :. ably short of the American recort !, and the world record.
 :; The medley championships. whicI q also featured the first days program
 were productive of some excellen , team and individual running. Firs Z, :, place honors in the interscholasti medley championship went to Hunt : ington high school quartet Of Bostor . . which won with a trifle to spare frou the Cedar Rapids team. Huntineto1 {, 1, set a new record for the event o II Tour minutes 1925 seconds. Tn
 year by Exeter.
 The interscholastic sprint rela
 cnampionship proved a popular vic
 tory TOT University of Pennsylvani
 runners. Earl sEby, the anchor mar
 sprinted into the lead near the clos
 of the mile contest after taking th
 pace from Lafayette and Princeto
 Nol AAS tue Il1dl half mile re
 lay. The University of Paris nuarte
 made it's first appearance in Ameri
 can competition in this event. an
 While the Fernch four, consisting 7 e Biget, Seurin. Goullieux and Fert, was not quite up to the speed set b the pace making teams, it manage
 to cllnch fourth place although with
 out the services of Captain Delvar % who was i'll.
 D. The distance medley relay was ly ciean-c cut victory for western TUT rs ners The University of Illinois, wit ,y the Iowa state team at its neels. wo ye after a grueling struggle carried a 1. most to the finish tape. Eastern co n- leges divided the balance of the hor th ors in this event, Pennsylvania beir ,a third and Columbia fourth.
 "a The races were run under a leade ,a drizzling sky and after the first fe a events the rain slowed up both trat eh and field to such an extent that re-
 ord breaking was out of the uuestio -O
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