Evening star., 1933-04-30
BROWN AND SP|Tz
SOAR TO RECORDS
10000 See N. Y. U. Set New
Time for 4-MiIe Run-Penn
Takes 3 Events.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Writer

TRANKLIN FIELD, PHILA-
n DELPHIA, April 29.-Alti-
i tude and distance were at a
premium today as college
and schoolboy athletic stars
brought the thirty-ninth Pennsyl-
vania Relay Carnival to an excit-
ing close with three record-break-
ing performance before a crowd
of 10000 spectators and under the
Springs warmest sun.
Two of the East's most renowned in
dividual performers George Spitz Of
New York University and Kieth Brown
Of Yale, scared to a new carnival record
height. Spitz negotiated feet 534
inches In the high jump to dislodge a
l6-year-old record, while Brown cleared
IA feet 4 inch in the pole vault and
just missed his attempts to 14.3.
In the longest relay of the lot. New
York University's brilliant distance quar-
tet, consisting Of Mothner, Grodman,
Model and Barker, brought the meet to
a climax by capturing the 4-mile COL
lege championship in the new carnival
record time of II minutes 45.4 seconds.
1he Violet-clad runners, making good
on their last chance to keep one of the
major titles, ran a front race most of
the way. Barker withstood a great
challenge by Joe Mangan. Cornell cap
tain, to win by a good 20 yards in the
last mile, with Manhattan's Prank
Crowley third.
A IL told, seven major carnival records
IA fell during two days of brisk COM
petition bringing together more
than 2.000 athletes from the South,
Middle West and East
pennsylvania, enjoying q big time at
its own athletic party. captured three
OF the eight varsity relay champion
ships, including the classic 1-mile re-
lay for the third successive year. The
quaker quartet, composed of Edwards,
Schaeffer, Jones and Healey, led all the
way while their former ace runner and
Olympic hero. Bill Carr, just out of the
hospital today, looked on from the win.
dow OF nearby college building. Carrs
running days are over, as a result Of
an auto accident in which he broke both
legs, but the little flyers presence seemed
to inspire his teammates to q decisive
conquest.
A 4 mile in the startling time Of
47.2 seconds by Howard Jones, Brook
lyn boy, featured the Penn mile teams
victory. which was clocked in 3:17.2.
Yale. with Karl Warner running anchor,
finished second. 20 yards behind Healey
OF Penn. while New York University was
third and Princeton fourth.
THE Penn hurdlers scored q hollow
i victory in the 480-yard shuttle
hurdle relay, beating Cornell and
Michigan State, whose anchor man.
Steele. went through the formality Of
covering the last 120 yards despite .
pulled tendon. Steele hurt himself in
the trials, but gamely competed in the
final to give his team a place.
Ohio State gained the only Midwest.
ern triumph in the relays by retaining
the half-mile honors, helped by the
fine anchor running of Jack Keller,
the hurdling ace who starred in his
speciality yesterday with a 143 PERFORM
ance over the 120-yard high timbers.
Keller'S burst of speed in the stretch
brought Ohio home in front of New
York University, Yale and Cornell, the
other flnalists, who finished in that
order.
Columbia's 2-mile relay team gave
the Lions their only victory. in a hot
metropolitan battle, the finish of which
saw Patterson of Columbia outrun
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