Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-24
REST FOUR-M|LE
TEAM IN HISTORY
c,ptain Brown, Of Penn Relay,
Praises eritons-Thinks
II staIIard a Super Miller
RAN 4 MILE IN 4:27
NJ LAWRENCE A. BROWN

BY LAWHCE>OD h' nssV"N
a,.sh us''eF'''' 1s.n & r''''''''''' 1''H
nINCE my return to the University
| - ,,,terday I have been asked BY any
.,mber Of the members Of the track
...m and friends whether the Cam.
s,,dee foul. mile team was as good on
Am 8 as reports reaching this. country
aid. .. =.
NJ answer to all such queries was
N emphatic Eyes"
I have no excuses to oher for our
Mat. We lost 70 a team that was
"a of the most brilliant It has been my
seed fortune to see In action. There
r no disgrace IN losing to such Z team.
fhey defeated Us because man for man
nv had more speed and more power
Dan We had. . ..-....-- q,
n any Of our most enthusiastic friends
sould desire. A number Of University
Ssduates who saw the race in London
snIsed out running and said that We
re up against the strongest English
toam they had ever seen. =.
We averaged a minutes 80 seconds,
N track that was many seconds slow.
and on a day that was bitterly cold.
~ heavy going on the track and the
ec]d did not enhance our chances IT,
vin any. Even had the weather been
HIT ! doubt If we could have done
much better against that Cambridge
fOur.
attempted to run on. The weather kept
he crowd down to 5000. when three
Zines that number were expected.
s,e and absolutely the best there Is.
jsiested BY them. The English writer's
Nv that the quartet IL the best col.
lection Of milers Of all times, and I
believe It.
Mountain, the famous Cambridge half.
miller, gave them q big lead the first
ls. From then on they were we'll out
m front, with Oxford and our team
1sbting il out away back. When Nc
Lane gave me the baton. Stallard had
seventy yards. and I knew there was
| 10 chance Of beating him. played 1t
nfe so as to be sure Of beating Ok.
ford. -.
Stallard ran about 4 minutes q Sec
ends. did about minutes % seconds.
I think Stallard is the greatest miller
Of today. and am sure II he were run
| slng under the ideal conditions we have
here would break the worlds record for
the event. think he Is going to beat
Hill, the Olympic champion, when they
ret together little later in the season.
Stallard is a much improved runner
ever what he was when in the relays
| here in 1920. At that time he ran
remarkable half mile, but since then he
has done even better.
The trip did this country and the
University Of Pennsylvania a world Of
good. both from> an athletic and q
friendly standpoint, between the ath-
ktes OF the two countries. We lived
with and ran with Oxford and Cam.
bridge while in England. and feel that
% athletes We understand each others
viewpoint much better than ever in the
past.
Our team could certainly not com.
|pain Of the treatment We received
abroad. From the time we landed until
We left England, except during train.
ING time, We were ,feted all over. Every
place we Travelled we were greeted like
celebrities. The. night of the race we
were the guests Of the Achilles, Club at
the Queens Club, and many notable
guests sat at the table with us.
Lord Desborough. Sir Theodore Cook.
Dir Montague Sherman, Bevil Rudd,
Who ran here in 1920, and a host Of
ether notables were in attendance. All
agreed that the race had done much for
athletics between the two countries and
oil expressed the wish that We would
soon return the compliment.
Many Of my friends have asked me
about our flying trip to Paris. We left
Z couple Of days after the accident when
the two fiers collided in mid.ai
shall never forget our ride. We were
Up IN the air in more ways than one
Tor four hours, passing through snow
storm and landing at night. think
We were unanimous after we breathed a
Ugh Of relief when We landed on Mother
Earth that 1t was our first and last
Trip in the clouds.
This afternoon We will be out on
franklin Field to start training for the
relays. We are all In excellent shape.
although all but Robertson. McLane and
myself had a touch Of scasickness
coming over.