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PENN RELAY TEAM
SKATERS RECORD
Covers Two Miles in Fast
Time of z Minutes
40 2-5 Seconds.
VIRGINIA DOES WELL
VIRGINIA DOES WELL
Orange and Blue Runners
Capture South Atlantic
Championship Relay.
[sy Associated press.l

[By Associated Press.I
PHILADELPHIA, April 2e.-Rac-
Ing 10 victory in the worlds record
time OF z minutes 40 2-5 seconds,
the University OF Pennsylvania two
mile relay team captured chief
honors on Franklin Field today In
the twenty-eighth annual relay car
nival of It's own Institution after a
thrilling spikeshoe battle with Penn
sylvania State and Georgetown run
ners. This contest and time was
the outstanding feature of n series
OF team and individual track and
field competitions such as is seldom
witnessed outside the Olympic
games.
While Pennsylvania with It's REQ,
ord-treaking team stood foremost In
the limelight, Cornell. Syracuse and
Georgetown won relay titular places
OF prominence and Earl Thomson,
Of Dartmouth. Alfred Leconey, of
Lafayette; Ralph Hills. Princeton;
Murphy, of Notre Dame, and Leroy
Brown. OF Dartmouth, captured chief
honors IN the individual events.
With collegiate and interscilolas- :.
tic athletes OF premier caliber from
all parts OF the country competing.
combined with perfect weather and
track conditions. record breaking
performances and attendance OF
moro than 10000 spectators. made
further athletic history today.
Tho new worlds record was estab-
lished by the Pennsylvania quartet
consisting OF George Meredith. e.
MoMuiiin. j. Holden and L. Brown.
and supplanted by a full second the
time OF the famous Oxford-Cam-
bridge University OF England combi-
nation consisting of w. latham, II.
B. Staliard. w. r. Mil.igan and B.
q. Rudd. running under the title of
tho Achilles Club. The English
teams time of minutes so -2-5 sen-.
onds was made on the SAND track
two years ago after a gruelling race.
Z, brown Runs Great Race.
When Larry Brown took up the
running for Pennsylvania In the
some fifteen yards to cut down be-
fore he was in position to set tho
pace. On the back stretch he moved
up rapidly and finally overhauled
Heinrich. running anchor for Penn
sylvania State. The final 200 yards
was a shoulder battle, In
which Browns superior speed and
endurance was too much for hts
rival. and he won by thirteen yards
after running the last half milo in
i minute 81 seconds. The time of
the four Penn relays was :56 As.
3:552-5. 5:524-5, 7:49-2-5. George
town was third. Princeton and Cor
nell finished far Behind.
The one-milea championship race.
won by Syracuse. also furnished
Embarrassing contest From start to
finish 1t. was battle between SYRIA
cuse and Princeton and almost a
duplicate OF the race run by these
colleges in the indoor intercollegiate
at New York last
March.
Cornell captured tho four-mile
titular event, her sterling miiers-
Stickler, Carter. r. Brown and N.
Brown-leading at tho end OF each
mile. @ 20
; Georgetown uncovered "a ane CONF
bfnatiop of 220-yard men In the half-
milo relay, and won handily over
Ohio state and Pennsylvania, and the
latter university's freshman quartet
raced away from Syracuse and the
Navy in the mile event for first
year men. y.
Pennsylvania's double relay win
was duplicated. by the Hamilton In
stItute teams. of Canada, who proved
to be superior to alnumber OF fast
IGdulS III tNSutS 1St SShoohboy
Earl Thomson Shows Speed.
Earl Thomson. the Olympic star,
running his last big meet for Dart
mouth, proved that he had lost none
OF his speed by capturing the 120-
yard hurdle race, run on turf. from
a classy field of hurdlers in 15 sec
onds Fat, thus eqnaling the time
made by Ralph Simson, of Missouri
at Franklin Field in 1915.
A few minutes later he went out
for the discus throw and hurled the
platter 131 feet 31-2 inches for an
other first-place medal.
8 Ralph Hills, who occupied the po-
'sitIon of youngest member of the
American Olympic team In 1920,
showed that he was still growing
and improving by winning the shot :
put from high-class field with a
putt of 46 feet inches. Murphy
OF Notre Dame. and Leroy Brown, OF
tors In the high jump, and then
other. and tossed coin for first
place when the bar stood at 8 feet
2 inches. Murphy taking the frat
prize with lucky call.
& Two Pennsylvania field stars took
the running broad Jump and the
1avsiin throw. when Rose leaped 90
feet 1874 inches. Brouder sent the
spear out 1871 feet II inches for q
new Penn carnival record. Yale
scored a first when Gardner shot
over the pole vault bar at IL feet o
inches. and Leconey, of Lafayette,
proved himself to be the fastest OF
a very fast field OF, sprinters by d..
feating Loye1oy, Cornell, and Graeb,
Columbia In the. Anal o the 100
yards In si4-b seconds 5squaling the
carnival time mad 9 by Arthur Dufry,
Georgetown, twenty years ago.
Oge-mile relay. high school, won
by Brooklyn Manual Training, Time,
1897 70. 4, Z s'aS3FJ y
Preparatory e school, one-miie 5re-
lay. won by Brown Prep. Time. s;l2.
College ass, o Ie-mIls relay, n
BY .csrnsgte Institute Of Schnelog
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