New Britain herald., 1928-04-27

Philadelphia, April c7 P>-Pre- Olympic track and field prognosti- cators will have an excellent oppor- tunity to make their deductions at the 34th annual University of Penn sylvania relay carnival on Franklin Field. April 27 and 2S.
 Olympic stars of the past. inter collegiate champions and title holders in different sections ot the country will participate in the gi- gantic meet that occupies two days from before noon until sunset. Three thousand athletes from five hundred colleges and schools are entered. More than 100 events are on the program, including many that will be contested in the Olym- pie games.
 The decathlon. which Is an off cial Olympic tryout, has attracted an all-star emery list from leading athletic clubs as well as the col ieges and moro than twenty entries have been received.
 Speculation is rife as to the pros poets of Bernard Berlinger. the University of Pennsylvania fresh man who astounded the track and field world during the winter by defeating the best all around men in the country in a septathlon event. The youthful Barney, still in his teens. humbled such veterans as Fait Elkins, national decathlon champion, and Harold Osborne, Olympic champion.
 Occidental College, in Los An seles: the University of Oregon. on the coast; New Mexico and Okla- homa, in the southwest; Haskell h. dians from Kansas. and the usual array of eastern colleges will have entrants in the decathlon. The 3,0O0-meter steeplcchasc which Is a part of the program for the first time, will give the athletes all the hazards, water and hurdles | that will be experienced at Amster- dam. Water jumps. with the deptf at six feet just over the hurdle, vii confront the steeplechasc perform. CTS.
 Western conference universities again play a conspicuous part in the carnival. The University of In
 diana with brilliant quartet O
 milers is expected to make Norttl Carolina and a number of other col
 leges step in the four-mile rela.
 event. Ohio State has entered 3.
 men, while Chicago and Minnesot;
 also are represented.
 Eleven collegse from below th
 Mason Dixon line, including Geor
 gia and Georgit Tech. give th
 southland it's largest representatio
 in the history of the games.
 The Haskell Indian school wi
 have a number of relay teams an
 two performers in the decathlor
 The redskins are the favorites alon with New York University in tn two mile relay.
 Syracuse. with it's speedy tear anchored by big Ray Barbuti. wi be a favorite in the mile relay. Tn , Orange team won the intercolleg ate indoor championship during tn winter.
 An event that is causing no cn
 of comment because of a possibl
 sequel in the Olympic games is th
 pole vault. Victor Pickard, (
 Pittsburgh, a native Canadian an
 the Dominion's representative , the event in the 1924 Olymp
 games, wiN battle with Sabin Car of Yale. this country's best and il indoor and outdoor worlds cha
 pion and record holder. , Cornelrs powerful band of wcigl men will play a big part in Il strong-arm events. Outstandi1 , ] among the Rig Red huskies is N.
 Wright. of Chatham. x. T., hamm 7 throwing expert. who broke the il
 tercollegiate indoor record recent and hopes 10 do as much for q outdoor mark.
 The sprint entry list is headed l | none other than Charley Paddoc Tn addition to the college event l numerous high. prep and gramm l school championships will be stage n Foreign athletes will be missil from the games this year due to Q ruling by the international spor s governing body prohibiting comp s tition between countries durll
 Olympic years.