Relays, Records

Under a late April sun, three green athletic fields belted by black cinder tracks marked off with whitewashed lines--one field on the Atlantic seaboard, one in the Midwest, one near the Pacific--teemed one afternoon last week with running, jumping, lunging figures in short white pants and varicolored track shirts. At the Penn relays in Philadelphia, the Drake relays in Des Moines, the West Coast relays in Fresno, U. S. athletes had, thrice equalled one world's record, and broken two.

To 45,000 spectators gathered around Philadelphia's Franklin Field, it was exciting to see pompadoured, red-shirted George Simpson of Ohio State equal the world's100-yard dash record--9 1/8 sec.* In Des Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record.

In Fresno, Frank Wykoff of Glendale Junior College and Charles Borah of the University of Southern California tied the 100-yd. dash record.

*Other holders of this record: Dan Kelly, Howard Drew, Charley Paddock, Cyril Coaffee, Chester Bowman.