Relays

Penn. As a pistol shot started the 175-yard dash at Philadelphia, Charles Paddock jumped away from the line while the nearest spectators leaned over the brick wall of the grandstand to watch him. Badly made and softened by dampness, the wall broke and onto the track tumbled spectators and debris. One old man fell square into the path of Paddock who jumped over him and then swerved to avoid debris, pounded on to cross the finish line in 17 2/5 sec., a world's record.

Burly Tony Plansky, once of Georgetown, won the Decathlon and a sure place on the U. S. Olympic team.

In the one-mile relays Chicago, ahead, was disqualified, the victory given to Yale.

Numerous jumps, dashes, relay races for high schools and prep schools were notable chiefly for the fortitude of the spectators who sat in the cold & wet until everything was over.

Drake. A wind full of the smell of rain, a long, sawtooth Iowa wind, blew into the faces of runners at Des Homes, caught at the legs of jumpers, tossed thrown javelins like feathers, so that no world's record and only one local record were broken in the Drake relays.

Jack ("Ruth") Elder, Notre Dame halfback, won the 100-yard dash; the runners of the University of Illinois won three relays and finished second in two others; Walter White of the Kansas Teachers College broke the track record when he tossed the shot 48 ft., 9 in.