The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
Waop Pecans Final To And Cop Series At Redwood Park
OXFORD'S GREAT RELAY TEAM LOSES INV RACE TO PENN STATE MEN

Almost 50,00O Sit Through
 Miserable Afternoon At Penn
 Games At Franklin Field
 PENN STADIUM, FRANKLIN FIELD. PHILADELPHIA, April 2s, Half undressed and exposed to . cold. stinging rain. the great run- ners of Oxford's relay team suc, cumbed to the fleet feet of Pom State colleges four this afternoon in the two-mile international ohampion- ship of the Penn relay carnival It was the stirring climax of th4 aarss United states. which began ea Ust. day amid heat anA Gust cad wsS closed out aa dusA Saturday nnAse maraAy oonda1onA.
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 GeorCstewn. whjdh had nedn q strong favortte ta win the Saoc 8n& eee . reoor6 On NoooUnt af tSwny Connelly's being thsFa to run th1 final half-milA was . distsne 2A9F6 f.s, sna wss .ss ,trt yirtus,iZ s eHs Of ths ssei 5000 So. o.uxsv.3 { Q ;
 The carnival aga4u Aaa. fuaaaNa the expectations of record 6reakln3 feats. which this time drew almost 6o,oo0 people.
 That was tho only event in which Oxford's modest, long saeeved cami- eoles wore seen Saturday. so the team from England will now pack its tea caddies. hat boxes and what not and return home with a proper 3oiIy time and ono athletic victory to show for tho voyage to America. Oxford won Fridays sprint medley, but was lost in the two-mile race ana was rather dismal in Saturdays feature number, considering the great things which had been expected.
 Milligan. tho Oxford anchorman, star of tho team. covered his half milo in one minute 57 seconds, and made dogged run for the fugitive heels of the Penn States man, but tho advantage lost by the second and third Oxford runners was too great to be regained by Milligan.
 In the one-half mile college relay championship of America, the La Fayette team lowered the carnival record from one minute 30 3-5 sec onds. to one minute 294-5 seconds. Tho youngsters from Hamilton col lege institute. high school up in lays in their class. the international interscholastio two-mile champion ship. but could not overcome Lake wood high from Cleveland, Ohio, in the milo by Huntington school of Boston was second in the two-mile.
 The afternoon started under suilen atmospheric conditions, but the field was dry and the track springy at tho time. An hour was whiled away with about 20 high school relays, in which Flushing High of New York COW. ering tho milo in 3 minutes . Ss 8-5 seconds with four runners.
 Just after this race. the Reading High teams anchorman made q fin. ish which brought tho crowd up noTung. He closed large s.p with 20 yards and finished fourth on the heels of Scranton Techs Auchee rune nor.
 Moor. e..... a.sSsrS2. z 2 called for the preliminary hs1k1f and within . fifth of . second o4 the e.rnivaa record, winnans hll wehhi- seconds. In tho final. jatsss kt Sxsin mark. doing snothsS 3e 6WitS fhs IF in: Tooss E xea sh3 sysas es$ stat% e!thoush hs ha4 ega3nst Aiu@ 4 x .. ali-around ahampion3 Efes man of cornsll the intelpelE94at6 indoor ohampionv NrN thA hst rangy Indian from HAsk90 1nSeatukA2 Hauer:. the Harvard interoe!lssdaf3 hounds who had been 6saotlcanx xVbS months for this test.
 until 5, tho field I&NS v3{S young athletes at their ~ar{oQs SSSS cialties. an evey-ehangin9 llr0uo which no ono spectator could udS e1. cept in glimpses. Tho high ia}hpoya were preoccupied with theif WorS striving down in one corner the Pot lay men were tearing 4youud tho ylu6 of the lott tho 5avetin med ver1 heaving the spear6 down tho V6nter of the infield and somstifnes erasina with these long. lean darts the offi, cials who occasionally Wandsred into their line of fire. In one busy period Thomson of Princeton was seen to run his trials in the hurdlss, and take his tests at the high jump and then was sighted in the midst of Q cluster on the opposite of tho field flinging a large brass cannon ball. There seemed to be no system at all in tho handling of the events and yet this chaos was such orderly confusion that the stunts were run off few minutes ahead of tho schedule all afternoon and tho atm letes were never at loss as to what they were to do next or where.
 The weather conditions were unfa- vorable on both days. oN else the 1923 carnival might have made much more history than 1t did.
 As 1t was, miserable time was endured by all.
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