Track & Field

In Philadelphia at the 38th Penn Relay Carnival:

Pennsylvania (Steel, Edwards, Healey, Carr) won the one-mile relay in 3:15.4, a new record for the meet, with N. Y. U. second, Colgate third.

Four Canadian schoolboys of Hamilton Collegiate Institute made an interscholastic world's record by 6 sec. when they won the two-mile relay championship in 8:10.i.

Ohio State won three major relay championships, lowered the carnival record by 1 sec. in the 480-yd. shuttle hurdle relay.

In Des Moines at the 23rd Drake Relay:

Henry Brocksmith of Indiana won the two-mile run in 9:13.6, a new intercollegiate record by 4.2 sec. Then, as anchor man on the team, he helped Indiana win the four-mile relay, losing the field in the last lap.

Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette equalled the world's record--9.5 sec.--in the 100-yd. dash.

Notre Dame won the one-mile and two-mile relays, with Alex Wilson for anchor man on both teams.

In Los Angeles, the University of Southern California won a dual meet with Stanford, in which Stanford's long Ben Eastman, who runs as though he were trying to prevent his glasses from falling off, ran the quarter-mile in 47.1 sec.--.3 sec. under the listed world's record but .7 sec. slower than his own best time.

In Tokyo, competing in Olympic tryouts, two Japanese runners broke El Ouafi's record of 2 hr. 32 min. 57 sec. for the marathon: Tanji Yahagi, who won, in 2:31:31 and Seiji Takahashi, who finished second, in 2:32:26.

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