Evening star., 1932-05-01
CARNIVAL
RECORD FOR MILE
Six Marks Fall in Cinder CIas-
sic-Canadian Boy Team
a Sensation.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor


TRANKLIN FIELD, PhiIadel-
r. phia, April 3O.-As the cIi-
L max to six record-smashino
performances, the Univer-
Slty OF Pennsylvania fiashy l.
mile relay team today blasted
loose its own meet record by
Whirling through the dust in 3
minutes 15.4 seconds in the out
standing feature of the Penn re-
lay carnival.
Before crowd of $4,000 specta-
tors who turned out for the final
days events, the Quaker flyers,
Steel, Edwards, Healey and Carr.
wiped out their own former car
niVal mark of 3:18 and easily dis
posed of the only two teams will
ing to accept the issue, New York
University and Colgate.
1t was race against time all the
way for the red and blue clad runners
Who without being pushed, turned in
q smashing performance. 1t was the
fastest mie relay ever run on Eastern
tracks and less than three seconds
short OF the unofficial world mark of
3:12.6, credited to Stanford's great
quartet.
For their quarter mile turns, Steel
was clocked in 49.6 seconds, Edwards
In 49.4, Healy and Carr each In 48.2,
Boys Relay Amazes.
Four Canadian schooIboys, running
for Hamilton Collegiate Institute ac-
counted for the only world record Of
the carnival when they romped of
with the interscholastic two-mile
Championship in the startling time Of
minutes 10.1 seconds. This bettered
by more than 6 seconds the previous
record, set in 1880 by the Lakewood,
Ohio, High School. 1t helped the
Canadian youths make a clean sweep
OF the three races they entered in two
days, their final conquest being gained
In one-mile relay in which the team
that beat them, Altoona, Pa, High
School, was disqualified.
Ohio State galloped of with three
major relay championships for the best
showing OF any college squads and
record In the 480-yard shuttle hurdle
relay. In this spectacular event. run
back and forth on grass over a 120-
yard course, the Buckeye aces, Black
and Keller, came like q pair of grey
hounds from behind to beat Dartmouth
and lower the mark to / minute 25
seconds.
H0ya Flash Beaten.
The Ohio State Timber Toppers, In
the trials equalled the carnival record
M ar hvyV Vol in
were second faster in the final de-
spite poor start. Army was third and
last In this feature. Don Bennett Of
Toledo, former schoolboy sprint cham
pion, added to Ohio States list of con-
quests by romping of with the 100
yard dash in 90 seconds. Bennett took
the measure OF pair OF Eastern cracks,
beating Al Kelly Of Georgetown by
nearly two yards, with Waybright Of
Navy third.
The remaining three carnival records
TO fall came tumbling in the field events.
George Williams of Hampton Institute,
Va, broke his own mark by hurting the
javelin 205 feet 23s inches Jones of
New York University pushed the shot
put mark out to an even so feet, and
two MidweSterenerS, Beecher of Indiana
and Wonsowitz of Ohio State, shared
the new pole vault record at a height
OF Is Ieet 1ncheS.
Negro Jumper Stars.
long-standing carnival record in
the high jump was tied when Howard
Spencer. Negro star of Geneva College
Pa.). leaped feet SIS inches This
equaled the standard set in 1917 by
Larson Of Brigham Young University.
After Ohio State had annexed the
half-mne relay and Boston College re-
captured 2mile honors for the first
time since 1927, New York University
came along to take the 4-miIe honors
away from Pennsylvania. The distance
feature. which closed the program, was
close for 3 miles, but Frank Nordell,
Violet ace, ran away from Bill McKnin
Of Penn on the anchor mile to win by
Is yards.
Michigan Normal, with its star Negro
hurdler, Eugene Beatty, on the team,
won two relay races at the mile dis
tance, including the class B Champion
ship. in 3:24.
Among the other winners In special
events were: Hammer throw, Grant
Pennsylvania. 157 feet ga
inches; broad jump, Fulmer, Duke, az
feet inches; discus throw, Crowley,
Yale, 143 feet 81 tn0Aes.