The Washington times., 1937-04-24
East TraCknnen
Trail in Penn
Carnival
BY PAT ROBINSON
International News Service Spirits
Writer

International News Service Spirits
Writer
PHILADELPHIA, April "a
Several more national champion
ships are down for decision on
this, the second and final day Of
the Penn Relay Carnival.
But if the first DAYS events be
any criterion, the Effete East has
only the worst to fear. For the un-
impressed visitors from the South,
Midwest and Far WeSt-like the
guest who walked off with the
family bath-mat-have no idea of
the proper respect due a host.
Consider what they did to us
yesterday over a muddy track and
then try to imagine what may be
in store for us today under more
favorable conditions.
First of all, our Hoosier cousins
stole the show when they won the
distance medley in 10.04.7 to equal
the world record. That running
fool, Don Lash, reeled off his
anchor mile in Abb and he wasn't
even pressed. Far, far behind him
came some more outlanders from
North Carolina and the rest were
nowhere.
Then along came four lads
from North Texas Teachers Col
lege to capture the quarter mile
title with Occidental of Colifor-
MIA and a Georgia outfit behind
them.
Runners In Pairs
Seems the Texans like to turn
out their runners in pairs. First
it was the Rideout twins who put
that school on the map and now
we have perhaps an even better
pair of twins, Elmer and Delmer
Brown. Heaven help us If they
ever decide to 60 in for quad
ruplets.
At this point several prep and
high school teams from New
York-Drake, Evander, Childs,
st. Johns, Brooklyn Prep and
De LaSalle-stepped in to win
some races but it is to be noted
they were not competing against
SouthernerS or Westerners.
Then came the Pitt four. with
big John Woodruff. the Olympic
champion, running an anchor
half in 1852, to grab the sprint
medley title and a new carnival
record. Manhattan was a badly
beaten second.
Next Spec Towns, Georgia's
Olympic and world champion,
raced to an easy victory over
Allen Tolmich, Of Wayne Univer-
sity, Detroit, who is a pretty fair
hurdler in his own right. Spec
got off last as usual, but he fin
ished far in front and when it is
considered that he has only begun
to recuperate from a recent ap-
pendectomy, his feat appears all
the more remarkable.
So much so, that old Lawson
Robertson, the Olympic coach,
was moved to remark: eff they.
cut any more parts out of that
fellow, there's no telling how
fast he may rum"
BY this time the East was hang
ing on the ropes and it needed
only the performance Of Indiana'S
little Tommy Deckard in the
3,000-meter championship to put
the cruSher on us.
Outstrips Rival
Tommy Topped 71a seconds off
the old record as he romped the
route in 9:21 with Jimmy Rafferty,
Of Fordham so far back in second
place the cameras couldn't reach
him.
Unfortunately for the East,
these boys will all be running
again today when the mile, two
mile and four-mile championships
will be decided, to say nothing Of
the 480-yard shuttle hurdle relay
and a special invitation mile which
will bring together Luigi Beccali,
o. Italy; Don Lash, of Indiana,
and Gene Venzke, Of Penn.
Lash may meet his Waterloo in
the special for he is slated to run
before that in the four-mile cham
pionship.
There are also all kinds Of non
titular races programmed but in
these the boys will be running only
for the exercise.